MonticelloLive

Dr. Rich Corby, professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, was recently selected to receive a $196,210 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a study-abroad program in South Africa next summer.
            A veteran of numerous trips to Africa and the Middle East, Corby will accompany 25 teachers from grades 6 through 12 to South Africa during the summer of 2009. The teachers will be selected from applicants throughout the country and must teach in the field of humanities.
            The NEH grant is Corby’s fifth since 1993 and the third he has received to take teachers to South Africa.
            “These types of programs and opportunities raise the visibility of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences as well as the university as a whole,” said Dr. Trey Berry, dean of social and behavioral sciences. “They also provide wonderful avenues for faculty enrichment and development. I
congratulate Dr. Corby for the hard work he has done to earn this grant.”
            UAM Provost R. David Ray called the grant “another opportunity for the university to reach out to the state, region and nation. Teachers who have made similar trips with Dr. Corby in the past have talked about how much it broadened their perspective on an area of the world we know so little about.”
            For more information, contact the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at (870) 460-1047.