For more details on the book, go to  http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/IGOAME.html.



Former Director Publishes Book

Former Center Director Dwight Hoover has published A Good Day's Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression (Ivan R. Dee, 2007).  The book recalls day-to-day life on an Iowa farm during the Depression. 

For more details on the book, go to http://www.ivanrdee.com/catalog/singlebook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/IRD/Catalog.db&eqSKUdata=1566637023.



"Middletown at Seventy-Five"

A Special Issue of the Indiana Magazine of History

Link:  newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/2502.html 



The Other Side of Middletown author wins Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association

The Margaret Mead Award, offered jointly by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), is presented to a younger scholar for a particular accomplishment, such as a book, film, monograph, or service, which interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful to a broadly concerned public. Dr. Lassiter recieved the Margaret Mead Award in part for his book, The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community, which was published in 2004, as well as for his continuing explorations of race relations and collaborative, community-based research and writing. The Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State sponsored the work of Lassiter and his collaborators on Munice, which the Center for Middletown Studies also supported. "I am extremely honored to be named the recipient of the 2006 Margaret Mead Award," Lassiter said. "As Margaret Mead was recognized widely for her commitment to both anthropology and, more importantly, to our larger society, I am expecially honored that the awards committee singled out The Other Side of Middletown as representative of the kind of work that Mead championed."

Sources:  www.aaanet.org/committees/awards/awards.htm#mead and www.marshall.edu/www/printpress.asp?ID=594