Southeastern Alumni Magazine- Summer 2021

A DECADE OF DISCOVERY: PRESIDENT INGLE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS President Kent Ingle celebrates a decade at Southeastern, as well as the tremendous growth the university has accomplished within enrollment, partnerships, degree programs and much more. INTRODUCING DR. MEGHAN GRIFFIN — SOUTHEASTERN’S NEW PROVOST Beginning in May of 2021, Dr. Meghan Griffin stepped in as Southeastern’s new provost. With an extensive background in higher education, Dr. Griffin is ready to guide the university into an exciting season of growth. DAVID DOCUSEN: FINDING THE BEAUTY OF GOD ACROSS DIVIDING LINES After being awakened to the disparities in his own city and around the world, Dr. David Docusen strives to spread awareness and advocate for racial and economic justice through his book, “Neighborliness: Finding the Beauty of God Across Dividing Lines,” and his organization, the Neighborliness Center. RELATIONSHIP BUILDING KEY TO STEINHORN’S SUCCESS With a diverse history of working with both major and minor league baseball teams, Russ Steinhorn attributes his advancement and success to the relationships he has built along the way. BUILDING THE FUTURE AT FACEBOOK Faith “Dani” Nawara has been dedicated to constructing an extensive and unique background in both business management and law following her graduation from Southeastern. Now, she works for Facebook, guiding employees in their adjustment amidst the pandemic and preparing the company for future crises. BASKETBALL WITH A VERTICAL VISION Larry Taylor is reaching the hearts of youth across the globe with his passion for the game of basketball and his outreach program, Vertical Vision. A HEART FOR SERVING As a program director for the Boys and Girls Club, Linwood Ross dedicates his time and efforts to mentoring children in the local community daily. TEAM HARRIS: A FAMILY OF EDUCATORS After embarking on their professional journey as teachers at the same school, Gayle Harris and her daughters, Jacquelyn and Tiffany, made the decision to continue their educational pursuit together at Southeastern.https://firescholars.seu.edu/seu_alumni/1015/thumbnail.jp

REGIONAL PLAYERS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REGION (CHINA, IRAN, TURKEY)

The article is devoted to the analysis of geopolitical positions in Central Asia of large regional states - Iran, Turkey, China

Streets of memory: the Kuzguncuk mahalle in cultural practice and imagination

textThe mahalle (neighborhood) was the historic space of urban culture in the Middle East. Cities in the region possessed a rich religious and linguistic diversity. The daily life of a religious community was centered in its mahalle. This cosmopolitanism was fractured with the birth of nationalism and its ethnic and linguistic claims to territory, and minorities migrated to new nations. Researchers have explored migration histories of various groups in the region, but this dissertation is the first to examine the consequences of this migration for the spaces of urban life. In this ethnography of Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, I relate narratives of place that challenge both popular discourse surrounding Istanbul’s recent history as well as nostalgic images of past cosmopolitan mahalle life. The contemporary mahalle is a Turkish, urban cultural space created by social practices of neighboring. These social practices are eroding, however, in contemporary Istanbul. The mahalle has moved into the realm of collective memory, and has come to embody familiarity in place. Historic landscapes in Istanbul signify the collective memory even as they manifest the rips of recent cultural change in the city. My work lies in the interstices of three spheres of contemporary theory in geography: the production of space; the co-constitutive nature of landscape morphology and representation; and the relationship between landscape and collective memory.Geography and the Environmen

THE CULTURAL DISCONTINUITY HYPOTHESIS: AN APPALACHIAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE IN EASTERN KENTUCKY

K.M. Tyler et al. (2008) propose a quantitative method to measure differences between school and home experiences had by students of ethnic minority status and how such differences (cultural discontinuity) may affect psychological factors related to student achievement. Although study of cultural discontinuity has been applied to understanding African American, Asian American, Latino American, and Native American student populations, little attention has been given to the ways in which cultural discontinuity may manifest in the Appalachian American population. This study conceptualizes the socio-cultural conditions that would warrant such an investigation, establishing evidence from ten interview subjects of the presence of cultural values associated with Appalachian Americans from Eastern Kentucky. The interviewee evidence provides a necessary starting point for investigating regional culture and marginalization effects that may occur based on membership within the Appalachian American community

Assessing Character of Place to Guide Geotourism - A Case Study of Two Montana Communities

In 2007 the governor’s Montana Tourism Advisory Council adopted the Montana Tourism and Recreation Charter. Its guiding principle of geotourism pledges to sustain and enhance the character of the places that the people of Montana call home. How can the state’s efforts to keep this pledge be assessed when “character of place” has never been defined in detail? To keep this pledge, and chart the future of geotourism in the state, it was important to clarify what is meant by character of place and identify the full range of present and potential problems that threaten the integrity of a character. Only by assessing character of place can we understand whether and how geotourism sustains the local environment and its aesthetic appeal, enhances the local community and its culture, and enriches the local heritage and well-being of its people