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Contact: Kathy
Johnson
(l-r)
President Lee T. Todd Jr, Aumaine Mott and Jan Isenhour
Isenhour
is credited with helping keep the Kentucky Women
Writers Conference alive when its funding was eliminated
by the University of Kentucky in 1998. Funding
for the conference was restored in the 2001-2002
school year, and the conference returned to UK.
In the interim period, the conference was based
at the Carnegie Center.
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (March 30, 2004) -- The
Kentucky Women Writers Conference announced its
sponsorship of a new student award at the University
of Kentucky. The Isenhour Award for excellence
by a woman in undergraduate research in the humanities
has been named for Jan Isenhour, director of
Lexington’s Carnegie Center for Literacy
and Learning.
Isenhour
is credited with helping keep the Kentucky Women
Writers Conference alive when its funding was eliminated
by the University of Kentucky in 1998. Funding
for the conference was restored in the 2001-2002
school year, and the conference returned to UK.
In the interim period, the conference was based
at the Carnegie Center.
The
first Isenhour Award was presented to Aumaine Mott,
a senior Russian and East European Studies major
from Orville, Ohio, at the conference kickoff March
25. Mott was honored for her project that gives
voice to a Muslim woman, formerly a refugee of
Bosnia Herzegovina, through her own memories and
those of the American woman who became her best
friend. By combining interviews, journal entries
and secondary materials, the project explores the
similarities and differences between the perspectives
of the two women, resulting in an intimate account
of the Muslim woman’s experiences through
childhood, war, immigration and starting over as
a refugee.
Mott
and future Isenhour Award winners receive a monetary
award, present their research at the annual Kentucky
Women Writers Conference, and have it published
in UK’s undergraduate scholarly journal Kaleidoscope.
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