Contact: Bruce Conley, News Information Director
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
e-mail: bruce_conley@augie.edu
www.augie.edu

April 25, 2003

Augustana Professor Receives National Recognition

SIOUX FALLS - Dr. Timothy Jones, associate professor of English at Augustana College, has been selected from a national applicant pool to attend one of 29 summer study opportunities supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports seminars and institutes at colleges and universities so that teachers can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines.

Jones will participate in an institute entitled “Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom.” The five-week program will be held at Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England, and directed by Professor Irven M. Resnick.

The 25 teachers selected to participate in the program each receive a stipend of $3,250 to help defray their travel, study, and living expenses.

Jones has been teaching at Augustana since 1995. He has a bachelor's degree from Calvin College, a master's degree in English and American Literature from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Old and Middle English Literature from the University of Illinois.

Topics for the 29 seminars and institutes offered for college and university teachers this summer include Civil Rights Movement, British Romantic Fiction, the English Reformation, and major figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. The approximately 500 teachers who participate in these studies will teach over 30,000 American students the following year.