Distinguished Missouri Scholar to Speak at CCSNH-Berlin
In recognition of Black History Month, New Hampshire Community College--Berlin/ Laconia will be hosting multiple presentations by Dr. Frank Nickell, a distinguished professor of history and the chairman of the Department of History at Southeast Missouri State University (SMSU). Dr. Nickell will make two presentations in Laconia and then will come north to Berlin for two presentations on Wednesday, February 26.
Both Berlin presentations will be held in the Fortier Library at CCSNH-Berlin. The first presentation will be at 11:00 am and will feature a film that Dr. Nickell collaborated on entitled "Oh Freedom After While" which tells the story of the 1939 sharecropper strike in southeast Missouri. NHCTC-Laconia history professor, Scott Carcraft, who was a graduate research assistant at SMSU stated, "The strike is significant because it involved the close cooperation of black and white farmers in the still-segregated state of Missouri." Carcraft went on to say that based on his personal knowledge of Dr Nickel, attendees can expect "the film and discussion that follows will be lively.
At 7:00 pm on Wednesday, February 26th, Dr. Nickell will make his second presentation, a lecture on "Masculinity, Gender, and the American Barn," a presentation about the significance of the American barn in rural gender roles.
Dr. Nickell, who grew up on an Illinois farm, received his undergraduate education at Eastern Illinois University and obtained a Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. Nickell is the editor of six books, more than twenty-five articles, numerous book reviews, and is the co-founder and co-editor of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Nickel was the first faculty member from SMSU to receive the Missouri Governor's Award for excellence in teaching and was the 1998 recipient of the Humanities Council Acorn Award for outstanding service in the humanities.
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