CHE Master Teacher Receives Fellowship!

CHE participant K. Wise Whitehead has received the prestigious Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship for 2006-07.  The Fellowship will provide her with resources to continue her research project, "Free and Enslaved Women in 19th-century Baltimore and Philadelphia."  She will receive free admission and privileges at the Maryland Historical Society, and access to thousands of objects and archives at the Society.  Ms. Whitehead was one of forty applicants competing for the fellowship.

    The project began life as a lesson plan Ms. Whitehead wrote during CHE's 2004 Teaching American History program, which formed the basis of her research.  Concurrently pursuing her doctorate in the Language, Literacy & Culture program here at UMBC, and leading a CHE Institute this summer for middle school teachers, Ms. Whitehead's achievements demonstrate that great teaching and great scholarship are closely linked.  

                    Kaye Whitehead (center) surrounded by fellow CHE participants.

                          Ms. Whitehead teaches at West Baltimore Middle School.