Sequoyah Teacher Chosen For NEH Fellowship Grant

A Sequoyah High School teacher has been selected to receive the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship grant.

Elaine Dasher is one of only 16 educators across the country chosen from a pool of 175 applicants to travel to England this summer to attend the NEH Summer Seminar.  

She and the other grant winners, who all are school teachers or university instructors and professors, were chosen based on the quality of their applications and recommendations. Dasher was recommended by Sequoyah Principal Elliott Berman.      

Participants in the “Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’” seminar will study “The Canterbury Tales” in Middle English and visit related sites in London, Oxford and Canterbury. The month-long seminar will be led by two university professors who are Chaucer scholars.

According to NEH, the seminars program’s goals are to: “extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics and texts; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; build communities of inquiry and provide models of civility and excellent scholarship and teaching; and link teaching and research in the humanities."