Finding Funding for Your Work

This document reports on a professional development workshop by Barry Bergey, National Endowment for the Arts, Robert Baron, New York State Council on the Arts, and Betsy Peterson, The Fund for Folk Culture, for graduate students and new professionals in the field of folklore studies sponsored by the AFS at its 2005 annual meeting in Atlanta. The session took place on Friday, October 21, 2005 1:30-5:15 p.m.The Folk and Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts provided funding for this workshop

AFS Professional Development Session for Students and New Professionals: Presenting Yourself on the Academic and Public Job Markets 1

This document reports on a professional development workshop by Tim Evans, Western Kentucky University and Marcia Gaudet, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, for graduate students and new professionals in the field of folklore studies sponsored by the AFS at its 2005 annual meeting in Atlanta. The session took place on Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:15-10:00 a.m.The Folk and Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts provided funding for this workshop

The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980

A roundtable discussion among Zachary J. Lechner, Darren Grem, and Margaret T. McGehee about Lechner\u27s book, The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980 (U of Georgia Press, 2018).https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/1011/thumbnail.jp

Gender differences and access to a sports dietitian influence dietary habits of collegiate athletes

BACKGROUND: Limited research exists on the effect of a sports dietitian (SD) on athletes’ dietary habits and nutrient periodization, which is the deliberate manipulation of macronutrient intake to match training goals. Further, the difference in dietary habits between men and women collegiate athletes has been understudied. A survey questionnaire examining dietary habits and practices was administered to athletes at two universities that employed a full time SD. Not all athletes used the SD as their primary source for nutritional guidance. The purposes were to examine the effect of a SD as a primary source of nutrition information, and the effect of gender on dietary habits in collegiate athletes. METHODS: Three hundred eighty-three women (n = 240) and men (n = 143) student-athletes (mean ± SD: age = 19.7 ± 1.4 years) from 10 collegiate sports took a 15-min survey consisting of questions on dietary habits and practices. Topics queried included eating habits, breakfast habits, hydration habits, nutritional supplementation use, pre-workout nutrition, post-workout nutrition, nutrition during team trips, and nutrient timing. Data were sorted by the athlete’s source of nutritional information (i.e., sport dietitian, other). Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and 2-way Pearson X(2) analyses (p ≤ 0.10). RESULTS: When a SD was indicated as the primary nutrition information source, athletes appeared to have a greater understanding of nutrient periodization (47.12 % vs. 32.85 %), were more likely to have school-provided boxed meals while on team trips (21.29 % vs. 6.77 %), and also less likely to consume fast food while on team trips (9.90 % vs. 19.55 %). Men athletes consumed fast food or restaurant meals more frequently, had higher weekly and more frequent alcohol intake during the competitive season. Women athletes were more likely to prepare meals, eat breakfast 7 days a week, and have school-provided boxed meals. CONCLUSIONS: Positive effects on dietary habits were observed when a SD was the primary nutrition information source. Practitioners should be aware of the gender differences in alcohol intake, fast food consumption, and knowledge of nutrient periodization. Collegiate athletes and athletic staff members could benefit from SD access to safeguard against dietary habits detrimental to performance

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

Using murder mysteries to address what she saw as destructive, rather than progressive, forces coming from the city into the countryside of north Fulton County, Georgia, journalist and fiction writer Celestine Sibley (1914–1999) attempted to present the city of Atlanta and the region beyond it as antithetical. Sibley's once beloved city had come to represent the forces of greed and capitalism encroaching upon what she viewed as the rural simplicity and goodness of country living. However, these novels in effect reveal the two ideologically separate spatial entities as connected within the broader economic processes of late-twentieth-century urban sprawl and within broader historical patterns of race relations in the Atlanta metropolitan region

Thematic Interpretation in Public Folklore: Professional Development Workshop Sponsored by the Independent Folklorists’ Section

This document reports on a professional development workshop by Teri F. Brewer, University of Glamorgan and Brewer, Wells, and Associates Cultural Resource Services, Patricia Wells, Independent Folklorist and Brewer, Wells, and Associates Cultural Resource Services, and Doris Dyen, Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, Discussant for graduate students and new professionals in the field of folklore studies sponsored by the AFS at its 2005 annual meeting in Atlanta. The session took place on Friday, October 21, 2005 1:30-5:15 p.m.The Folk and Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts provided funding for this workshop

Remediating Region: New Media and the U. S. South

Gina Caison, Austin Svedjan, Sherita Johnson, and Margaret T. McGehee, with Katie McKee introducing sessio

Availability of a sports dietitian may lead to improved performance and recovery of NCAA division I baseball athletes

Abstract Background The purpose was to survey dietary habits (DH) and nutrient timing (NT) practices of baseball student-athletes (mean ± SD; 20.7 ± 1.4 yr.) from three NCAA Division I institutions, and examine the effect of a sports dietitian (SD) in regard to nutrition practices. Methods Descriptive statistics and Pearson X 2 analyses were run. Responses on 10 DH and 5 NT items differed (p ≤ 0.10) between athletes who sought dietary planning from a SD (n = 36) versus those who consulted a strength and conditioning coach (SCC, n = 42). Results In regard to DH items, the SD group found it easier to eat before activity (92% vs. 71%, p = 0.03), did not consume fast food (31% vs. 14%, p = 0.02), caffeinated beverages (57% vs. 46%, p = 0.02), or soda (56% vs. 37%, p = 0.10), prepared their own meals more often (86% vs. 73%, p = 0.07), and took daily multi-vitamins (56% vs. 32%, p = 0.02). The SCC group ate more at burger locations (21% vs. 6%, p = 0.02). In regard to NT items, the SD group ate breakfast before training/lifting sessions (67% vs. 37%, p = 0.02), and had post-workout nutrition options provided (61% vs. 27%, p = 0.01). The SCC group reported pre-competition meals of fast food (58% vs. 45%, p = 0.01), and sport coaches who were less aware of healthy food options (39% vs. 65%, p = 0.05). Conclusions The SD is as a valuable asset to an intercollegiate athletics program. In the current study, athletes from the SD group consumed less high calorie/low nutrient dense items, ate before exercise, and consumed healthier options post-exercise. The presence of a SD was linked to provision of healthier food options during team trips. The evidence-based eating strategies and dietary plan provided by a SD may lead to improved performance and recovery