Informed by a background in psychology and commercial printing, Robert Howsare’s interdisciplinary work explores failure and the glitches occurring within systems. Robert Howsare is an Assistant Professor and Department chair for the Art & Design Department at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Bjorgo-Thorne teaches Environmental Science at all levels for the Wesleyan Summer Gifted Program. Her passion is teaching, with a focus on the remarkable resilience and innate fragility of this small island we live on: planet Earth. Bjorgo-Thorne’s childhood experiences with Florida’s diverse plant and animal life were the biggest factors in her pursuing a career in environmental science, especially water-related, issues. dissertation on the spatial ecology of fish in the Kanawha River, and began teaching at West Virginia Wesleyan College in 2006 in the department of Biology and Environmental Science. degree from Clemson in fisheries, with a minor in statistics. She has worked as a research diver with the Florida Regional Reef Project and also worked for the Florida Marine Research Institute. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Florida. Kim Bjorgo-Thorne grew up in Florida, and came to West Virginia in 1999 to pursue a Ph.D. Antolini teaches History at all levels for the Wesleyan Summer Gifted Program.ĭr. Her book, Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s Day, was published by the West Virginia University Press in Fall 2014. Her talk, “Mothers of Martyrs: Woman and Civil War Commemoration,” highlighted the role that women played in the creation and celebration of Memorial Day, Emancipation Day and Mother’s Day in the wake of the war.

She was one of the featured speakers of the WV Humanities Council’s 2014 Sesquicentennial Speakers Bureau commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. She specializes in the field of women’s history and has published articles on the role of Confederate women in the American Civil War and the history of American holidays. in History from West Virginia University. in Sociology from Rutgers University, and an M.A. She is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College and holds an M.A. Katharine Antolini offers courses in American History and Gender Studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

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