Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Dr. Deborah Mitchell, Westminster College associate professor of English, has earned the 2008-2009 Henderson Lectureship Award.
The Henderson Lecture was founded by Dr. Joseph R. Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth, to encourage and recognize original and continuing research and scholarship among Westminster College faculty, and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the academic community. Dr. Henderson is a professor of education emeritus at Westminster, having served as chair of the Department of Education and as director of the Graduate Program.
Each year, Westminster faculty members may nominate themselves or others to receive the lectureship, which includes a stipend to support a specific research project. A special faculty committee chooses the winner.
The 2008-2009 lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Mitchell, who has been with Westminster since 1992, earned undergraduate and master's degrees from Youngstown State University and her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
Her lecture will focus on Queen Elizabeth I, the subject of the final chapter of Royal Biopics: Filming the Lives of Queens. Co-authored with Dr. Betsy Ford, Westminster professor of English emerita, the book is slated for publication in 2009.
Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for additional information.
