Carmaletta M. Williams

Langston Hughes in the Classroom

"Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780814125618
• ISBN-10: 0814125611
• Artikelnr.: 24466708

Autorenporträt

Carmaletta M. Williams is professor of writing, literature, media communications, and African American studies at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Overland Park, Kansas. She has made numerous presentations and conducted workshops for middle and high schools, colleges and universities, and community groups, largely through the auspices of the Kansas Humanities Council. Williams earned Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a doctorate from the University of Kansas. She has won a number of distinguished teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern-Sante Fe Faculty Achievement Award, three Distinguished Service Awards from JCCC, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education's Kansas Professor of the Year, and the League for Innovation's Innovation of the Year award for her videotape titled "Sankofa: My Journey Home," about her Fulbright-Hays Award study in Ghana, West Africa. Williams traveled to Guinea, West Africa, where as a guest of the government she established a faculty exchange between L'Ecole Nationale de Poste et Telecommunications and JCCC. She was an invited scholar to South Africa, where she interviewed citizens about their experiences during and after apartheid. Williams was awarded JCCC's first Diversity Award in September 2005.