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CLARENCE HOOKER
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2570 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
Hooker has a PhD in History from Michigan State University. His teaching and research have recently focused on the social history of America. The emphasis has been the culture of Union and Confederate veterans of the Civil War, and the culture of assembly-line workers of the Model T Era.
During the past few years, Hooker has worked to find innovative ways to add genealogical data and methods to his Tier 1 course, which continues to have a heavy dose of historical texts. Most of the reading, as well as the writing assignments, are inspired by an exciting new project, My History is America’s History, created by the National Endowment of the Humanities (October 1999) to mark the new millennium. While this approach to the course has been a tremendous challenge, he is gratified to find that enlisting first-year students in locating and interpreting information by interviewing their grandparents or other elders as sources of information about our history and culture engages their interest as they improve their writing.
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