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Christina M. Shutt, the director of the African American history and culture museum in Arkansas, has been selected to lead the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the ALPLM’s Board of Trustees announced Friday.
Shutt has been executive director of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock since 2016 and guided it through the complex process of earning national accreditation, making it only the ninth Black culture museum in the United States to earn such a designation.
She previously served as Associate Librarian for Special Collections and Instruction at Hendrix College and has worked in a variety of special collections, including the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard University. Shutt holds two master’s degrees, one in history and the other in library science/archives management, from Simmons University.
2021 Steel-Hendrix Awards Announced
CONWAY, Ark. (March
4, 2021) The Marshall T. Steel Center for the Study of Religion and
Philosophy at Hendrix College will present the 36
th Annual
Steel-Hendrix Awards to the Rev. Dr. Michelle J. Morris, Sophia Said, and
Jennifer White. Because of pandemic restrictions on gatherings, these
extraordinary church and community leaders will receive this year’s awards
remotely, in a ceremony that will premiere Monday, March 29, at 4 p.m. on the Steel Center Facebook page and the Hendrix College YouTube Channel.
Information about
the Steel-Hendrix Awards and each award’s recipient follows:
The Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris – The Mary and Ira Brumley Award for
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Medieval Madness: History Professor Pfau Explores Crime and Mental Illness in New Book
CONWAY, Ark. (March
1, 2021) The last year has been challenging from a mental health perspective
as people have had to cope with a global pandemic on top of the usual stresses
in their lives. These kinds of challenges were almost too familiar to people
living in the 14th and 15th centuries, when plague regularly recurred. In one
case from 1459, a man named Gouyn Cluchat living in the Auvergne region of France,
chose to move his family to try to avoid the plague that was ravaging their
village. In their new town, he was unable to access his usual sources of