A $2.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will allow WSU Vancouver professor Candice Goucher to join with Portland State University professor Linda Walton as co-lead scholars for the production of a multimedia series designed to help teachers learn more about world history.
They will structure the series, “Bridging World History,” into 26 units, each with a study guide and video- and text-based content. The series broadcast will be available worldwide, with video and print materials accessible online. Production begins in March, with completion projected for the fall of 2004.
Goucher is the director of the liberal arts programs and a professor of history at WSU Vancouver. She teaches courses in African history and Caribbean studies. Her publications include numerous articles and reviews in African history, art, archaeology and African-Caribbean technology and culture. She is co-producer of the award winning video, “Blooms of Banjeli: Technology and Gender in African Iron-making” (1983). Her current research project is based on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Goucher is co-author of the two-volume book, “In the Balance: Themes in Global History” (McGraw-Hill, 1998), with Walton.
Walton, chair of the history department at PSU, teaches East Asian civilization and Chinese social religious and intellectual history. She is the author of “Academies and Society in Southern Sung China” (Hawaii, 1999).
The Annenberg Foundation and CPB partnership creates media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching.
