McCall Selected as National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar

Elmira, NY (05/24/2019) — Dr. Corey McCall, associate professor of philosophy, has been selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar. Summer Scholars are chosen from a national applicant pool and are given the opportunity to attend one of 20 summer seminars or institutes supported by the NEH.

McCall will participate in a seminar entitled "Writing and Democracy in Western New York." The two- week program will be held at Cornell University, and will be directed by Professors Sandra Gustafson and Shirley Samuels.

Topics for the 10 seminars and institutes offered for college and university teachers this summer include:

• Colonial Experiences and Their Legacies in Southeast Asia
• José Martí and the Immigrant Communities of Florida in Cuban Independence and the
• Dawn of the American Century
• Making Modernism: Literature and Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955
• Material Maps in the Digital Age
• Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere
• Philosophical Responses to Empiricism in Kant, Hegel, and Sellars
• Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South
• Religion, Secularism, and the Novel
• Writing and Democracy in Western New York: Situating Tocqueville, Stanton, Cooper, and Douglass

The Endowment is a federal agency that, each summer, supports these enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions, so faculty can work in collaboration and study with experts in humanities disciplines. Approximately 222 NEH Summer Scholars who participate in these programs of study will teach over 29,000 American students the following year.

To learn more about the NEH, click here.

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