Lynn Powell

Born and reared in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lynn Powell often focuses her poetry on spirituality and its infusion into daily life. She attended Carson-Newman College, where she received her BA (1977), and she earned her MFA at Cornell University (1980). Powell has focused on bringing poetry into public schools, both during her work as a writer in the schools for the Tennessee Arts Commission and in her later role as the director of the Writers in the Schools program at Oberlin College....

William Goodell Frost

William Goodell Frost was born into a New York reformist family who offered their home as a station on the Underground Railroad. Additionally, his aunt, Lavinia Goodell, was the first woman to practice law before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In 1876, Frost received an AB at the progressive Oberlin College, where he later returned to teach Greek. While teaching at Oberlin, Frost became interested in Appalachia, and his interest deepened when he became the president of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in 1893. Berea College was founded in 1855 by Kentucky abolitionist John G. Fee as an interracial institution; its supporters, both black and white, also championed black colleges such as Howard and Fisk. In the years after Kentucky’s 1904 legislation outlawing interracial education, Berea kept its white students at the Berea campus and founded Lincoln Institute in Louisville to educate African Americans. Frost implemented programs at Berea that he felt were suited to white mountain students....

“Big Data Meets Survey Science”

This article is part of the SSCR special issue on Big Data and Survey Science, guest edited by Adam Eck (Oberlin College), Ana Lucía Córdova Cazar (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Mario Callegaro (Google Ltd.), and Paul Biemer (RTI International & UNC-CH).

Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1877?–1966)

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a multitalented artist of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance era who wrote poetry, plays, short stories, music, and newspaper columns from her home in Washington, D.C. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was a member of Atlanta University’s Normal School class of 1893. She studied music at Oberlin College and wrote songs from 1908 until 1959.