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By: Kim Miller
November 15, 2005
Contact: Dongping Han (828-771-3723) or Sally Fischer (828-771-2019)
WWC professors receive grants from Appalachian College Association
Two Warren Wilson College faculty members, Sally Fischer in Philosophy and Dongping Han in History and Political Science, have received faculty development grants from the Appalachian College Association. The grants are awarded in partial support of the professors sabbatical projects during the upcoming academic year. Fischer will use her sabbatical to complete research toward and to begin writing a book on an existentialist ethics from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gabriel Marcel, and Luce Irigaray. Han plans to study rural China. His hypothesis is that Chinese government faces legitimacy crisises in the rural areas today. He will interview farmers and rural officials to test the hypothesis. He will be on sabbatical for one year. The Appalachian College Association, based in Berea, Ky., is a consortium of 35 independent liberal arts colleges and universities in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Currently these institutions collectively enroll more than 38,000 students. The Association provides expanded and enhanced learning opportunities to faculty and students for the purpose of serving the educational and economic well being of the people and communities of central Appalachia.
