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Jane Beck
By Vermont Humanities | June 24, 2016
Jane, founder and former executive director of the Vermont Folklife Center, is the author of Daisy Turner’s Kin, An African American Family Saga, based on sixty interviews with the daughter of slaves.
A graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, Tim is the director of the Professional Writing Program at Champlain College and founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project.
Carrie has been a museum curator and exhibit developer for more than 25 years, and is the author of books, magazine articles, and exhibition catalogues.
Nancy is the author of six general interest books and one young adult novel, and spends part of each summer in Iceland leading history and horseback tours.
Stephen Collins received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations, in addition to performing.
Damian Costello specializes in the intersection of Catholic theology, Indigenous spiritual traditions, and colonial history. He is an international expert on the life and legacy of Nicholas Black Elk.
Philip Crossman has spent most of his life teaching the humanities to high school and college students. His interest in Middle Eastern history was sparked by several years he spent working in Jerusalem.
