NEWSLETTER
Summer 2005
Activities of the Fellows
Brasseaux's most recent publication is a book entitled French, Cajun, Creole, Houma, A Primer on Francophone Louisiana (Baton Rouge, 2005). Pending publication is a collaboration with Ryan Brasseaux and Marcelle Bienvenu on Cajun cuisine. The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities named Brasseaux Humanist of the Year for 2005.
He initiated a restructuring of the center and its affiliate faculty and other organizations. The result is a change in titles, from “associate” to “fellow,” naming Dean David Barry as fellow ex officio, the designation of three fellows emeritus due to pending retirements, and recruitment of four associate fellows from outside organizations.
The Center strives to bring together academics, professionals, and the public in a collaborative atmosphere to identify, enhance, and promote Louisiana’s tourism industry and the activities that support it. We are excited to include you in our community of academics working in an atmosphere of interdisciplinary cooperation.
Professor, Department of History and Geography
P.O. Box 40831
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6027
brasseaux@louisiana.edu
Associate
Director, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Laudun begins a sabbatical in the fall, and is completing a book on gumbo. In addition, he is actively acquiring new materials for the center's archives and supervising the revamped process of digitization and cataloging of the Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore. Laudun is also compiling material for a documentary.
Assistant Professor, Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6906
jjl8719@louisiana.edu
A. David Barry
Fellow ex officio, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
The center recognized one of its prime supporters, Dean David Barry, with an official title, fellow ex officio. He is nominated for the Lafayette Man of the Year award.
Dean, College of Liberal Arts
P.O. Box 40397
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6219
dbarry@louisiana.edu
Ancelet, appointed to another three-year term as fellow of CCET, not only attended Archive Aid at the beginning of June, he performed as part of the "UL Faculty Band," an impromptu group including Ray Brassieur, D'Jalma Garnier, and Kristi Guillory.
Professor, Modern Language Department
P.O. Box 43331
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6811
bja8149@louisiana.edu
Baker begins her retirement this summer, and as such, the center named her fellow emeritus. Her current research and writing includes a book-length manuscript on social history in the early industrial period, entitled Anguish and Hope: Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland and the Nineteenth Century Experience. She is also translating, editing, and annotating the letters of a nineteenth-century woman reformer, Pauline Roland. Finally, she continues her research on women in eighteenth-century Louisiana.
Professor,
Department of History and Geography
P.O. Box 42531
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6900
hvb9188@louisiana.edu
Griff Blakewood
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Blakewood is a new center fellow, and brings to the center his interests in resource conservation and community sustainability.
Assistant Professor, Department of Renewable Resources
611 McKinley Drive
Lafayette 70504
(337) 482-6967
griff@louisiana.edu
Brassieur, reappointed for another three-year term as fellow, not only attended Archive Aid at the beginning of June, he performed as part of the "UL Faculty Band," an impromptu group including Barry Ancelet, D'Jalma Garnier, and Kristi Guillory.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
brassieur@louisiana.edu
Carriker, a reappointed fellow, is teaching public history course in Italy this summer.
Director, Public History Program and Chair,
Department of History and Geography
P.O. Box 42531
Lafayette,
LA 70504
(337) 482-6900
carriker@louisiana.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Carson became dean of the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration this summer. She is a new center fellow.
Director and Associate Dean, B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration
P.O. Box 40200
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5754
plp6475@louisiana.edu
Cazayoux remains affiliated with the center and active in other university initiatives despite his retirement from teaching this year. The center appointed him as fellow emeritus and looks forward to continued collaborations.
Professor, School of Architecture
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6225
ejc2954@louisiana.edu
Associate Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Clifton continues her work with the center under the new title associate fellow. She is currently developing a database on Creoles.
Curator, Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium
433 Jefferson Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
(337) 291-5415
dclifton@lafayettegov.net
Frederick was reappointed to another three-year term as center fellow.
Assistant Professor and Director of Latin American History,
Department of History and Geography
P.O. Box 42531
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5427
jcg0624@louisiana.com
Gaudet continues her appointment as a center fellow. She recently published a book, Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America (Jackson, MS, 2005).
Chair, Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6906
folklore@louisiana.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Gramling was reappointed as a center fellow and continues to contribute to discussions on coastal erosion and environmental sociology.
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
gramling@louisiana.edu
Hebert continues her appointment as a center fellow.
Associate Professor,
School of Architecture and Design
Director, Facility Design and Management Studio
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6225
prh2239@louisiana.edu
Huner retires in July 2005 and continues his affiliation with the center as fellow emeritus.
Director, Crawfish Research Center
Adjunct Professor of Aquaculture
Department of Renewable Resources
P.O. Box 44650
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 394-7508
jvh0660@louisiana.edu
Ramesh Kolluru
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Kolluru is a new center fellow. His research expertise spans the areas of information technologies, supply chain management, and database technologies. He is responsible for the implementation of the Center's strategic plan. He leads the Center's research projects and architects the Center's software development products. In addition he serves as the liaison to CBIT's industrial partners.
Director, Center for Business and Information Technology
P.O.Box 44932
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-0600
kolluru@louisiana.edu
Garrie Landry
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Landry is a new center fellow, and as curator of UL's herbarium and ornithologist brings to the center his knowledge of Louisiana flora and birds.
Curator, Herbarium
Biology Department
P. O. Box 42451
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5705
gpl9972@louisiana.edu
Laudun is a newly appointed associate fellow. Her affiliation with the center represents one of the center's new projects, a collaboration with Louisiana Public Broadcasting on a Louisiana Folk Masters television series. She and her production crew won the 2004 James Williams Rivers Prize for their documentary series commemorating the Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana: A History.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting
7733 Perkins Rd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
(225) 767-5660
tlaudun@lpb.org
Martin is a new center fellow whose research interests include Louisiana history and public history. He organized "Fifty Years Later: A Symposium Commemorating the Desegregation of Southwestern Louisiana Institute," which was often standing-room only, attended by academics and the general public.
Martin also hit Lafayette’s local historical lecture circuit, providing keynote addresses for the Epsilon-Xi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta induction ceremony, the Rotary District 6200 Conference, and the UL Lafayette Alumni Association 2004 Leadership Weekend. He served as a talking head for a segment about Ronald Reagan’s legacy on the radio program “Louisiana Live.” Martin presented papers before the Tennessee Conference of Historians, the Louisiana Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians Regional Meeting.
He authored “’High Time We Put Behind Us the Blind Prejudice of the Past’: Russell Long and Louisiana Politics, 1948-1952,” which is forthcoming in the journal Louisiana History. His essay “New Orleans Becomes a Big-League City: The AFL-NFL Merger and the Creation of the New Orleans Saints” has been accepted for publication in volume 12 of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, Arts and Entertainment in Louisiana, edited by Patricia Brady. He continues revising his doctoral dissertation, a political biography of Russell Long.
He chairs the department’s Charles B. Allen Memorial Award for Contributions to Phi Alpha Theta Committee and serves on the Finance and Graduate Studies Committees. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Historical Association and the Editorial Board of the Center for Louisiana Studies. Finally, Martin currently is co-faculty advisor for the Epsilon-Xi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, a group that provided his greatest honor in many years when it presented him with its “Spirit of Eternity” award in May 2004.
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography
P.O. Box 42531
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6900
msm6506@louisiana.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
McKinney continues his appointment with the Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism as a fellow.
Director, School of Architecture and Design
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6225
rwm5047@louisiana.edu
John Meriwether
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Meriwether is a new center fellow. Research in his laboratory focuses on the measurement of natural and induced radioactivity to determine properties of natural systems.
Professor, Department of Physics
P.O. Box 44210
Lafayette, LA 70504-2210
(337) 482-6691
meriwether@louisiana.edu
Associate Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Mire's work with the center became official with his recent appointment as a Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism associate fellow. He is collaborating with Brasseaux and others, with funding from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, on a documentary of Louisiana veterans titled Mon Chère Comrade.
Pat Mire Films
625 Garfield St.
Lafayette, LA 70501
(337) 232-0700
patmire@bellsouth.net
Poudel continues his association with the center as a fellow.
Associate Professor,
Department of Renewable Resources
611 McKinley Drive
Lafayette 70504
(337) 482-6967
dpoudel@louisiana.edu
Rees, reappointed as a CCET fellow, is conducting field school this summer.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
markrees@louisiana.edu
Charles Richard
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Richard, a new UL faculty member and CCET fellow, is a well-known Louisiana filmmaker. He is working with fellows Tika Laudun and John Laudun on the projected television series, Louisiana Folk Masters.
Assistant Professor, Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6906
cerichard@louisiana.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Sammons continues his appointment as a center fellow.
Director, Community
Design Workshop
and Professor, School of Architecture and Design
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6225
tcs3147@louisiana.edu
Cindy Trahan
Associate Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Trahan is Vermilionville's executive director and a newly appointed associate fellow of the center. Her insight into specific tourism concerns will be beneficial to many center projects.
Executive Director, Vermilionville
300 Fisher Road
Lafayette, LA 70508
337-233-4077
trahanc@vermilionville.org
Associate Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Twilley, reappointed as an associate fellow, is presently studying the role of benthic nutrient recycling on the productivity of Fourleague Bay and Gulf of Mexico funded by Louisiana sea Grant and Board of Regents. He is also involved with a variety of studies of mangroves to understand their function in coastal ecosystems. Mangrove research is fifteen years behind marsh ecology and considering the present exploitation of this natural resource in the tropics, there is a critical need for a clear understanding of the ecology of these wetlands.
Director, Wetland Biogeochemistry
Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science
Louisiana State University
1002-Y Energy, Coast and Environment Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225) 578-6308
rtwilley@lsu.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Willey continues his appointment as a center fellow.
Associate
Professor, School of Music
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5204
willey@louisiana.edu
Wooddell is a new center fellow familiar with risk and impact analysis on various coastal and marsh environments, particularly instances of oil spills. Currently, he is working with the Port of Iberia in its attempt to develop a deep water channel and organizing the rural sociology society's annual meeting. Additionally, he is researching an EPA climate change report and writing impact assessments of the proposed "third delta" project and the Bayou Lafourche reintroduction project.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
wooddell@louisiana.edu
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