NEWSLETTER
Winter 2006
Activities of the Fellows
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 completed a semester-long sabbatical in December 2005, and directed a master's thesis (completed December 2005) and is currently directioning a doctoral dissertation. His article "The Land of the Blue Guitar: The Nature of Art and Life at the Crossroads" appeared in the recent Louisiana Crossroads publication. He also presented several papers: “The Gumbo Lines from Africa to Louisiana,” Louisiana and the Caribbean Studies Conference (Baton Rouge, LA); “Kaliste Saloom & Ambassador Caffery: The Local History(s) and Culture(s) of Lafayette,” British Women Writer’s Conference (Lafayette, LA); “Talking Shit in Rayne,” American Folklore Society (Atlanta, GA); “Following The Way of the Masks,” University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC); “The Origins of American Folk Architecture,” Gallery 912 (Lafayette, LA); “Cajun and Creole Women’s Musical Traditions,” Festivals Acadiens (Lafayette, LA); “Cajun and Creole Accordion Traditions,” Festivals Acadiens (Lafayette, LA); “Creole Storytelling,” Zydeco Festival (Plaisance, LA); “Creole Storytelling,” The Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week (Chicot State Park, LA); “Cajun Fiddling Traditions,” The Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week (Chicot State Park, LA). In addition to his two courses during the Spring 2006 semester, Laudun served on two university committees, two college committees, and five departmental committees, was a respondent at the Cultural Economies Summit debriefing, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, reviewed grants for the Acadiana Arts Council, and consulted with Vermilionville staff on interpretive materials for new structures. Finally, Laudun continues as editor of Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, and authored a grant for the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission with CCET fellow Charles E. Richard.
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.
Dean, College of Liberal Arts
P.O. Box 40397
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6219
dbarry@louisiana.edu
Professor, Modern Language Department
P.O. Box 43331
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-6811
bja8149@louisiana.edu
Vaughan Baker was appointed a 2005 Fellow of the Louisiana Historical Association. She also received the Enno Kraehe Award for Service to the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association at the annual meeting of the Association in November, 2006. For the program of the Southern Historical Association Annual Conference she participated in a session entitled PRAGMATISM AND POLICY: SPAIN AND THE PROBLEM OF SPANISH LOUISIANA. Her paper was entitled, "Transcending Policy: Crossing Racial and Gender Boundaries in Spanish Louisiana." She also chaired a session on LEGACY: THE SHA EUROPEAN HISTORY SECTION AT FIFTY YEARS OLD, honoring the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European History Section. Her current research concentrates on free women of color in the Attakapas region (St. Martin Parish) before 1860. She is collaborating with Virginia Meacham Gould on a book of essays on race and gender in colonial and antebellum Louisiana and with Judith F. Gentry on "Voices from the Storms: Louisiana Testimonies, 2005."
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Renewable Resources
611 McKinley Drive
Lafayette 70504
(337) 482-6967
griff@louisiana.edu
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
brassieur@louisiana.edu
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 currently serves as a LEDA Commissioner and is working with the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce on their Air Services Project as well as with the Lafayette Regional Airport Commission. She was also named LCG Woman of Excellence 2005.
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
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
Curator, Lafayette Natural History Museum and Planetarium
433 Jefferson Street
Lafayette, LA 70501
(337) 291-5415
dclifton@lafayettegov.net
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
Marcia Gaudet was awarded the 2005 Chicago Folklore Prize for her 2004 book Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America, published by the University Press of Mississippi. The Chicago Folklore Prize is the oldest award of its kind, presented annually since 1927 by the University of Chicago, for the best book in folklore, selected from nominations that come from throughout the world. Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America is based on extensive archival research and interviews with former patients of the National Hansen’s Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana, the only in-patient hospital for the treatment of Hansen’s disease in the continental U.S. from 1894 until its closing in 1999. The award was announced on October 19 at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Atlanta. The letter from the Chicago Folklore Prize Committee, read at the meeting’s opening ceremony by AFS President Michael Owen Jones, stated:
The 2005 Chicago Folklore Prize is awarded to Marcia Gaudet for Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America, published by the University Press of Mississippi. Based on twenty years of sustained research, Carville—at once moving and a model work of scholarship—is a deft mixture of cleanly-written history, poignant recollection, and lucid folkloristic analysis brought to bear on the neglected yet remarkable traditions of an exiled yet resilient community.
Marcia Gaudet was also the co-editor and compiler (with Reggie Young) of a book of stories and essays by Ernest J. Gaines, Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays (Knopf, 2005). Ernest Gaines is Writer-in-Residence Emeritus at UL Lafayette.
Marcia Gaudet’s article “Ribbon Pulls in Wedding Cakes: Tracing a New Orleans Tradition” is forthcoming in the Spring 2006 issue of Folklore. Gaudet also has three entries on Louisiana topics (“Cajun Communities,” “Mardi Gras,” and “New Orleans”) in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Folklife, edited by Simon Bronner (Clarkson Publishers, 2006).
Chair, Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6906
folklore@louisiana.edu
Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
gramling@louisiana.edu
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
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
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
Curator, Herbarium
Biology Department
P. O. Box 42451
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5705
gpl9972@louisiana.edu
Louisiana Public Broadcasting
7733 Perkins Rd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
(225) 767-5660
tlaudun@lpb.org
Martin recently had a book, Historic Lafayette, accepted for publication.His article “New Orleans Becomes a Big-League City: The NFL-AFL Merger and the Creation
of the New Orleans Saints” in appeared in Horsehide, Pigskin, Oval Tracks, and Apple
Pie: Essays on Sports and American Culture, ed. Jim Vlasich (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland, 2006): 119-131. Other
publications include “'High Time We Put Behind Us the Blind Prejudice of the Past’: Russell Long
and Louisiana Politics, 1948-1952,” Louisiana History 46 (Spring 2005): 133-
153,
and a review of Christopher B. Strain, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the
Civil Rights Era (Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 2005).
Accepted for publication in Louisiana History is
“Political Peculiarities and Processes in the Pelican State;” a review of
Wayne Parent, Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics (Baton
Rouge: LSU Press, 2004) on H-Louisiana, 8 April 2005;“LONG, Russell Billiu,” Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Vol. 7.
He was a participant in "Frontiers of American History"--a Teaching American History
grant, Lafayette Parish School System, the Smithsonian Institution, the
National Council for History Education, the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, and the Louisiana Department of Education, 2006-2009.
“Russell Long and States’ Rights, 1948-1968” will be presented at
the 2006 Louisiana Historical Association meeting. On
January 6, 2006, he presented “Nascent Neo-Con or New Deal Liberal: Senator Russell B.
Long of Louisiana,” at the Phi Alpha Theta Biennial National meeting,
Philadelphia, Pa. Other
presentations include February 24, 2005: “'Congress is Perhaps Better Off Without the Smell of
This Sort of Proposed Legislation on its Hands’: Russell Long and the
Second Reconstruction,” The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights
Act of 1965: A Conference, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches,
Louisiana;
“Russell Long: A Political Life,” Lunchtime Lecture at the
Louisiana State Museum, Baton Roug, April 5, 2006;
January 23, 2006: “Huey Long and the Great Depression,” lecture and
discussion, part of The Great Depression: A Teaching American History
Workshop, Smithsonian Institute and Lafayette Parish Schools;
October 9, 2005: “The Perils of Baptist Intellectualism,” luncheon address,
Baptist Collegiate Ministry, Lafayette, Louisiana;
September 2005: “The Researchers Reality: Russell Long and Religious
Revolutionaries,” inaugural presentation of UL Lafayette Department of
History’s Brown Bag Lunch Research Discussions;
April 14, 2005: “Why the Longs Still Matter,” Invited Keynote Address, Pi
Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta initiation, Northwestern State University;
Proposal reader/reviewer for New Orleans, An American Experience Special,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (December 2005). Martin
also serves as Coordinator, UL Lafayette-New Orleans Notarial Archives internship
cooperative endeavor (2005).
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's research currently concentrates on historic architecture, and design pedagogy. He has been funded on multiple grants by the Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation to conduct the Historic American Building Survey. This work has focused on documenting French influenced architecture in Point Coupee and St. Landry parishes. He been funded Louisiana Board of Regents on multiple enhancement grants to integrate technology into the School of Architecture and Designs three programs, architecture, industrial design, and interior design. He has worked with the School’s Community Design Workshop on five projects working with municipalities and community organizations, and the university students to visualize and develop ideas.
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
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
Pat Mire Films
625 Garfield St.
Lafayette, LA 70501
(337) 232-0700
patmire@bellsouth.net
Associate Professor,
Department of Renewable Resources
611 McKinley Drive
Lafayette 70504
(337) 482-6967
dpoudel@louisiana.edu
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
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 recent projects include Washington Main Street Design and Section 16 Property: Lafayette Parish School Board. He also serves as a UL Study Abroad: Paris professor and was named University of Louisiana at Lafayette Distinguished Professor 2005. Additionally, he sits on the Louisiana Recovery Authority, Infrastructure Committee and the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce Executive Board, Investigating Smart Growth.
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
Executive Director, Vermilionville
300 Fisher Road
Lafayette, LA 70508
337-233-4077
trahanc@vermilionville.org
Associate Fellow, Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism
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
In October, 2005 the Center for Louisiana Studies published by DVD Willey produced called "From La La to Zydeco: Creole and Zydeco Music From Louisiana". It celebrates thirty years of culture with ninety minutes of music played by seventeen groups. One thousand copies were made and donated to libraries throughout the state. You may check out a copy at local branches. Current he is looking for a commercial distribution outlet for the DVD. For more information, visit http://willshare.com/zydeco.
Associate
Professor, School of Music
P.O. Box 43850
Lafayette, LA 70504
(337) 482-5204
willey@louisiana.edu
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
P.O. Box 40198
Lafayette LA 70504
(337) 482-6044
wooddell@louisiana.edu
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