John Edgar Tidwell

Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Minnesota, 1981. Diss. "Cultural Collaboration and Iconoclasm: The Literary and Cultural Criticism of Alain Locke and Sterling Brown"
• M.A., English, Creighton University, 1971
• B.A., English, Washburn University, 1969

Other Educational Experiences

• Fellow, Humanities Research Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Spring 2006
• Non-resident Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004. (nonstipendiary appointment)
  
• Participant, “African American Traditions: The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance,” Penn State University, 9–13 June 1998, directed by Prof. Carl Blake
  
• Participant, "African American Voices: Language, Literature, and Criticism in Vernacular Theory and Pedagogy," Penn State University, 21-25 June 1994, directed by Drs. Bernard Bell and William Harris
  
• Visiting Fellow, Afro-American Studies, Yale University, 1985-1986
  
• (Auditor), NEH Summer Seminar, Atlanta University, 1979. "Alain Locke, The Harlem Renaissance, and Afro-American Culture," directed by Professor Richard A. Long

Honors and Awards

• Humanities Research Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Spring 2006
  
• Sabbatical, University of Kansas, Fall 2005
  
• University of Kansas, General Research Funds, summers 2000, 2001, and 2002
  
• Scholar-in-Residence, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS, February 17–19, 1999
  
• Faculty Improvement Leave, Miami University, Fall 1997.
  
• Alumni Fellows Program, Washburn University, October 22-24, 1994.
  
• Alumni of Notable Achievement, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, selected June 1994.
  
• Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas, Spring Semester 1994.
  
• Visiting Scholar in English and in Ethnic Minority Studies, Kansas State University, 15-19 March 1993.
  
• NEH Summer Stipend, awarded March 1993.
  
• Miami University, Grant for Research Graduate Assistant, for 1993-1994.
  
• NEH Travel to Collections Grant, awarded December 1992.
  
• Miami University, Assigned Research Appointment, Fall 1990.
  
• Miami University, Summer Research Appointment, 1988.
  
• NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1985-1986.
  
• NEH Summer Stipend, 1985 (refused).
  
• NEH Travel to Collections Fellowship, awarded December 1983.
  
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Fall 1982.
  
• University of Kentucky Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, 1981, 1982, and 1983.
  
• National Fellowships Fund Award, 1978-1981 (for dissertation work).
  
• Jessamine Allen Dissertation Fund Award, University of Minnesota, Fall 1980.
  
• Putnam Dana McMillan Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Summer 1979.
  
• American Lutheran Church Future Faculty Fellowship, 1975-1977.