Lovett: Academics

What are the connections between literature, history, music, and art? What does it mean to teach across disciplines? This faculty workshop can answer those questions, and more!

	James P. Hendrix, Jr., Ph.D. Jim Hendrix has 35 years teaching experience at both the university and secondary school levels. His career also encompassed serving as headmaster of three different schools, in all of which he continued to teach. He has taught a number of interdisciplinary courses and was one of the co-founders of the American Studies program at Lovett. He holds an A.B. in History from Davidson College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, where his concentrations were Southern history and literature. In recent years his research and writing interests have focused on the Trans-Mississippi West, especially the Lewis and Clark expedition. Now semi-retired, Jim works as an educational consultant, a lecturer on Lewis and Clark, and as a fly fishing guide.
	Richard Hall, Ph.D., The Lovett School Richard Hall received his training as a high school teacher during five years of service at Frederick Douglass High School here in Atlanta. He has taught ninth and eleventh graders at Lovett for the last 28 years, in addition to serving as English department head, upper school principal, and now assistant headmaster. He and then-headmaster Jim Hendrix inaugurated Lovett's American Studies curriculum in the 1996-97 school year, and he has taught it at the honors and regular levels since that time. Dick received his B.A. degree at Eckerd College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American literature from Emory University. In addition to his interest in melding the traditionally separate disciplines of English and history, Dick enjoys bringing American art and music into the learning experience.
	Andy Ambrose, Ph.D., Atlanta History Center Dr. Andy Ambrose is the senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Atlanta History Center. He is also the author of the recently-published Atlanta: An Illustrated History and co-author (with Dr. Darlene Roth) of Metropolitan Frontiers: A Short History of Atlanta. He is also co-editor of a forthcoming book from the University of Georgia press entitled The South in the Twentieth Century. In addition to his writing and his duties as COO, Dr. Ambrose has curated several exhibits at the Atlanta History Center, has served as the associate editor of Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, and has taught college classes and courses on historical research and public history. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D in American Studies from Emory University.
	Gary Laderman, Ph.D., Emory University Gary Laderman received his B.A. in psychology from California State University, Northridge, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. He also spent a year in Paris, France, as a graduate student, studying at the Center for Critical Studies and the Sorbonne. He teaches in the following areas: American religious history and cultures, death and dying, theory and method, religions in the South, Native American religions, and science and religion. His research focuses on death, health and healing.
	Gregg Hecimovich, Ph.D., East Carolina University Dr. Gregg Hecimovich has published articles on Dickens, Browning, Hardy, Blake, Joyce, and others in such publications as ELH, Victorian Poetry, The Victorian Newsletter, and The James Joyce Quarterly. Currently, Dr. Hecimovich is working on a book-length study, Hannah Crafts and North Carolina, in support of which he received a 2004 "We the People" Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In Hannah Crafts and North Carolina, Dr. Hecimovich recovers the historical "Hannah Crafts," the first African-American woman and escaped slave to write a novel. He also details the surprising influences that shape Crafts's autobiographical slave narrative: from Emerson and Thoreau to Dickens and the Brontes. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Vanderbilt University .
	Marva Griffin Carter, Ph.D., Georgia State University Dr. Carter is an associate professor of music history and literature in the School of Music at Georgia State University. She teaches courses in the historical periods of Western art music, world music, and basic improvisation. Dr. Carter has earned degrees from Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory of Music in applied piano, and from Boston University and the University of Illinois at Urbana in musicology. She served as organist for a decade at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Dr. Carter has lectured at national and international musicological meetings and has published articles in journals, dictionaries and encyclopedias concerning the music of African Americans. Her research interests include the music of the black church, the history of jazz, and African retentions in the music of the New World. Currently, she is completing a musical biography of Will Marion Cook for Oxford University Press. He was a pioneer composer of black musical comedies on Broadway at the turn of the twentieth century and mentor to Duke Ellington.

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