Category: Fellowships

Brian D. Berry

Teacher
Booker Middle School
Sarasota, Florida

Lynette Adrian Bickham
Advanced Placement Teacher
Dwight Morrow High School
Englewood, New Jersey

Jordan Brown
Upper School History Teacher
Sandy Spring Friends School
Sandy Spring, Maryland

Brian R. Croone
10^th Grade World History
Stillwater Area High School
Stillwater, Minnesota

Antonia Cucchiara
Social Studies Teacher
Edward R. Murrow High School
Brooklyn, New York

Marilyn Day
English Teacher
Marblehead High School
Marblehead, Massachusetts

Heather M. Dengel
Teacher
Burgettstown High School
Burgettstown, Pennsylvania

Anneke Emerson
Teacher
The Chandler School
Pasadena, California

Ericka L. Garcia
Social Studies Teacher
CW Baker High School
Baldwinsville, New York

James Goodspeed
Teacher
Fulton High School
Middleton, Michigan

Emalie Karp
Social Studies Teacher
Okemos High School
Okemos, Michigan

Pamela M.T. King
Social Studies Teacher
Waiakea High School
Hilo, Hawaii

Michael Kozuch
Teacher of History
Newton Public Schools-Newton South
Newton Centre, Massachusetts

Michelle D. Luckadoo
7^th Grade Social Studies Teacher
Durham School of the Arts, Durham Public Schools
Durham, North Carolina

Gordon A. Monaghan
Social Studies Teacher
Highland High School, Albuquerque Public Schools
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Elizabeth T. Scharlack
Teacher, History and Social Science
Newton North High School
Newtonville, Massachusetts

Ronald A. Sivillo
Secondary Social Studies Teacher
Upper St. Clair High School
Pittsburgh, PA 15207

Margaret Temple
Social Studies Teacher
Hopkins High School
Minnetonka, Minnesota

Dr. Gayle Y. Thieman
Assistant Professor
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

April 14-23, 2006

This program was implemented in Korea for a group of ten participants accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, senior director of Korean studies at The Korea Society, and Mark Peterson, professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University. The ten participants consisted of American educators from across the professional spectrum: six K-12 teachers, one professional storyteller/writer, one administrator from a state department of education, one professor and one university dean-and across the country. This diverse group traversed Korea from the northwest to the southeastern coast, visiting five major cities: Seoul, Suwon, Ch’ongju, Kyongju and Pohang. The program began in Seoul with lectures on Korean politics, economics, art and the Silk Road interspersed with guided tours of Leeum Museum and Kyongbok Palace. The tour continued with the group traveling south, making a stopover at the Samsung Electronics History Hall in Suwon as well as at Hwasong Fortress, a U.N. World Heritage Site in Kyonggi province from the Choson Dynasty. An overnight stay was arranged by Samsung at its Human Resources Center in Yongin. The next day, the tour continued with a visit to the Early Printing Museum in Ch’ongju, where the first moveable type, invented in Korea in 1377, was on display. Next, participants visited the Haien Buddhist Monastery where the group joined Korean worshippers in a religious ritual and visited the repository of the Tripitaka Koreana before traveling to Kyongju, the historic city of Silla’s golden age, for the night. The group visited the National Museum of Kyongju, as well as several historical and cultural sites, in order to learn about the development of Korea’s Buddhist heritage during the period of Silla state formation. Afterwards, the group visited the nearby Yangdong traditional village for a two-hour, informal discussion with Jirak Lee, the clan elder. This discussion provided a unique opportunity to understand how Confucianism continues to influence rural Korean communities. Before returning to Seoul, the group toured the Pohang Steel Mill. The group returned to the United States, from Seoul, on April 23.

2006 Spring Fellows:

Valerie Bove
Teacher
St. John’s Preparatory School
Astoria, New York

Barbara Flynn
Editorial Director
Nieman, Inc
Wilmette, Illinois

Lara Gonzalez
Social Studies Teacher
Great Neck South High School
Great Neck, New York

Dr. Darrell P. Kruger
Assistant Dean and Coordinator of Illinois Geographic Alliance
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Susan Jeffries
Teacher
Bryant Middle School
Bryant, Arkansas

Dr. Susan Elizabeth Perry
Literary Specialist/Associate Professor
Freeport UFSD/Long Island University CW Post
Freeport, New York

Dan Prinzing
Coordinator: International Education
Idaho State Department of Education
Boise, Idaho

Lisa Pupo
English and Social Studies Teacher
Spring-Ford High School
Royersford, Pennsylvania

Leah Renzi
Social Studies Department Chair
Eastern Technical High School
Baltimore, Maryland

Cathy Spagnoli
Professional Storyteller/Writer
Vashon, Washington

October 9-20, 2005 

This program was implemented in Korea for a group of eleven participants accompanied by the program coordinator, Yong Jin Choi, and Mark Peterson of Brigham Young University, who as usual served in the capacity of a docent. It was the 10th annual program in this series. The program got underway in Seoul with lectures on Korean politics, art and economy, issues in ancient Korean history (Koguryo) and geography. Interspersed with the lectures were guided tours of Leeum Museum and Kyongbok Palace. The group then went on the road, traveling south with a stopover at the Samsung Electronics History Hall in Suwon, the Hoam Museum and Heewon, a traditional Korean garden, in Yongin. An overnight stay was arranged at the Samsung Human Resources Center in Yongin. The tour continued the next day with a visit to the Early Printing Museum in Ch’ongju, where the first moveable type invented in Korea in 1377 is exhibited. The group then continued on to Youngnam University in Kyongsan near Taegu. They visited a folk village in the vicinity and experienced an overnight stay at an ancient Confucian Academy known Kugye Sowon that is named after the famous Confucian scholar U Tak (1263-1342) of the Koryo Kingdom. Mark Peterson gave a lecture on the importance of Confucian heritage to Korean culture in the hall of the Confucian Academy. The group departed the next morning for Haein Buddhist Monastery. At the monastery they joined Korean worshippers in a Buddhist ritual and visited the repository of the Tripitaka Koreana. The group stayed overnight at a hermitage associated with the monastery. The next day, they moved on to the Yangdong traditional village in nearby Kyongju where they had a two hour long informal discussion with Jirak Lee, the clan elder. This discussion provided a unique opportunity to get a contemporary perspective on the relevance of the Confucian heritage and to learn about his role in a functioning rural community as a young clan leader. After having lunch at a traditional rural restaurant, the group visited Kyongju City, the capital of the ancient Silla Kingdom where they toured the Kyongju National Museum. Jong Wook Lee of Sogang University in Seoul assumed the duties of a docent during the next two days, which were spent in Kyongju. While visiting the historic sires, he lectured informally on the developmental stage of Silla’s state formation, its subsequent history and various aspects of Silla society. He also led a walking tour of Namsan, a mountain with many historic remains from the Silla period, which was an unforgettable experience for all the fellows. The next day the fellows took a flight to Jeju, an island off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula, to participate in a conference organized by Cheju National University entitled "The First International Conference for the Globalization of Jeju." The conference drew over 100 attendees from academia and local government. In the morning session, the fellows had an opportunity to learn a great deal about Jeju, including its history and culture, industry, and distinctive tradition of women divers. In the afternoon, the group returned the favor by offering their own reflections on the theme of the conference: Ford M. Cochran gave a presentation entitled "Iceland: Isolated but Connected to the World;" James Millward spoke on "Globalization on the Peripheries on China;" Linda Menton on "The Island Edge of America;" and Mark Peterson offered his views on "Jeju Island and Its Multiple Roles in Korean History." The next day and a half was spent touring major sites on Jeju that illustrate its major attractions. As usual, the in-country costs of the program were covered by the Korea Overseas Information Service. The Korea Society covered all the administrative costs of the program in the U.S. as well as the international travel costs of the program coordinator and the docent with the funding provided by the grant from The Freeman Foundation. The expenses incurred for the visit to Jeju, a first for this program, were covered by the organizers of the conference held at Cheju National University.  

2005 Fall Fellowship Participants

Joseph Castagno

Editor-in-Chief

Scholastic Corporation

Ford M. Cochran

Director, Programs Online

National Geographic Society

Nancy Gilbert

Editorial Director

Pearson Prentice Hall

Marcie Goodale

Executive Editor, Social Studies

McDougal Littell

Rod M. Leith

Senior Editor

Harcourt School Publishers

Matthew P. McKelway

Assistant Professor, Fine Arts

New York University

Linda K. Menton

Professor, Curriculum R&D

University of Hawaii

James Millward

Associate Professor

Georgetown University

Tom O’Neill

Senior Writer/Asia

National Geographic Magazine

Susan Stark

Executive Editor

Houghton Mifflin Company

Jenny C. Huang Yang

Program Director

Asian Educational Media

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

June 20 – July 8, 2005

This program was implemented in Korea for 20 participants accompanied by the program coordinator, Yong Jin Choi. It was the 17th annual program in this series. The program got underway as usual with a half-day orientation session, which included a visit to the Folk Museum in downtown Seoul by subway, to introduce the fellows to Seoul’s excellent public transit system. The following day, the fellows made a series of visits to the Seoul Metropolitan government, Cheonggechon Restoration Project, Hwangi Art Museum and Leeum Museum of Art and joined a dinner with Fellowship participants from Australia and New Zealand. From June 22 to July 5, the fellows participated in an intensive workshop at Korea University. The workshop consisted of a mix of lectures and field trips to places of educational interest. Specifically, the lecture topics covered history, culture, language, literature, geography, religion, economy, society, women and family, the educational system, nuclear crisis on the Peninsula, the Korean War, movies, regional integration in East Asia and Korean Diaspora in the U.S. Field trips in the general vicinity of Seoul included visits to the Korea University Museum, the Korean Traditional Performance Theater in Chongdong, Daeil Senior High School, the Insa-dong District, Changdok Palace and the Korean Family Culture Institute. There was also a movie screening and the discussion with the director of JSA, a visit to the Demilitarized Zone and a home visit. From June 30 to July 4, the program included the usual tour to points of special interest in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, including visits to Haein Temple and Kyongju, and Hyundai Motors in Ulsan. Visits to the Koryong Daegaya Tomb Museum, an overnight temple stay at Hwaeomsa, visits to the Dolmen Park and Nagan-up Castle, and Suncheonman Ecology Tour were newly added experiences that everyone enjoyed. On Tuesday, July 5, the participants met again at the Korea University campus to evaluate the program and have the closing ceremony and farewell dinner with the program organizers. On Wednesday, July 6, the fellows met with Yeon Sook Lee for a discussion of women’s issues in Korea. The participants were fascinated by her life story: she is a woman who was raised in a Christian family, married into a very traditional Korean household, raised two children, became an educator, a radio talk show hostess, a U.S. Embassy public relations officer, a leader of a major Korean women’s association, a member of the ROK National Assembly and the minister for women’s during the Kim Young Sam administration. That evening the fellows met with seven Korean social studies educators. Rose Marie Duchesneau made a presentation on the standards of geography education in the U.S. and Charles R. Hammer described professional development education opportunities for teachers at the state level and district levels in the U.S. Park Sejin and Ahn Byungchul, who teach at Seoul High School and Banpo High School in Seoul, respectively, discussed the treatment of America in the world history and world geography textbooks in use in Korea. After a day of independent study and research, the fellows departed Korea for the U.S. on July 8.

2005 Summer Fellows:

Jill Ammerata

Mamaroneck HS
Mamaroneck, NY

Stanley T. Bartosiak

Glendale Unified School District
Glendale, CA

Joan M. Brylski

Pulaski Community HS
Pulaski, WI

Susan H. Davis

Washoe County School District
Reno, NV

John De Lisa

Saint Joseph Hill Academy
Staten Island, NY

Rose Marie Duchesneau
Central Heights ES
Billings, MO

Nancy Spear Gagnon
Contoocook Valley Regional HS
Peterborough, NH

Henry L. Grubb
Fort Osage HS
Independence, MO

Charles (Pete) R. Hammer

San Francisco Unified School District
San Francisco, CA

Esther Darsie Hartman

Cypress Springs High School
Cypress, TX

Joel Hinrichs
Branford HS
Branford, CT

Abram (Bram) Hubbell
Friends Seminary
New York, NY

Gale J. Lederer
School of the Arts
San Francisco, CA

David L. Morse
Lincoln HS
Tacoma, WA

Jaison Michael Norris
Lecanto HS
Lecanto, Fl

Carole Schroeder

Boise State University
Boise, ID

Jane Shlensky

NC School of Science and Math
Durham, NC

James Steven Sombathy

Fulmore Magnet for Intern’l Studies
Austin, TX

James Alan Whitehead

White Station HS
Memphis, TN

Guven Peter Witteveen

UM-Center for Japanese Studies
Ann Arbor, MI

Due to budgetary constraints at the Academy of Korean Studies, our partner institution in Korea for this program, we were unable to implement this program. With the authorization of the Freeman Foundation, we re-programmed the allocated funding to provide scholarships for our summer institute entitled “Korea and the Silk Road” to ten American educators residing outside of the greater New York area. The benefits of the scholarship included a tuition waiver, per diem expenses for five days (hotel room/single occupancy plus a $100/day allowance for meals, local transportation and incidentals), and reimbursement for actual travel costs up to a maximum of $300.

Scholarship Recipients:

Steve Barber
Desert Mountain HS
Scottsdale, AZ

Earnia J. Crocheron
Overland HS
Bailey, CO

Connie Hudgeons
Albuquerque HS
Albuquerque, NM

Susan Lessenhop
Farragut Carier Academy HS
Chicago, IL

Robert Rodey
Marian Catholic HS
Flossmoor, IL

Ron Sivillo
Upper St. Clair HS
Pittsburgh, PA

Jessica Strike
Elmwood Park HS
Chicago, IL

Rick Thorne
Sky View HS
Logan, UT

Bernadette Ward
Clinton MS
Tulsa, OK