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Roanoke Colonies Research Newsletter
Roanoke Colonies Research Office Established at ECU As those who met on the ECU campus in July suggested, we will begin by publishing a research newsletter and by organizing triennial interdisciplinary conferences on Roanoke colonies studies. The two initial projects are meant to correct the one shared complaint voiced amidst great praise for the Roanoke Decoded symposium: that the participating scholars were unable to attend one another's presentations. While Roanoke Decoded provided an excellent opportunity for the general public to hear about the research many of us are doing, it also pointed out how little opportunity we scholars have had to keep up with the work in which others are engaged. Office Administration and Oversight I have been asked to serve as the institute's director of the Roanoke Colonies Research Office. As a young scholar who researches early English and Spanish exploration literature of North America, I am excited about having the chance to be involved in an important way with a project such as this. David S. Phelps, one of the Roanoke Decoded symposium participants, professor of anthropology at East Carolina University, and associate director of the university's Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, will oversee the Roanoke Colonies Research Office for the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research. Phelps has appointed an advisory committee of scholars for the Roanoke Colonies Research Office. It has been established to offer advice concerning publications, conferences, and other projects that the office will be engaged in. Agreeing to serve are Karen Kupperman of the University of Connecticut; Ivor Noel-Hume of the Virginia Company Foundation; David S. Phelps of East Carolina University; William S. Powell, emeritus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; David Beers Quinn, emeritus of the University of Liverpool; David Stick of Manteo, North Carolina; and Helen Wallis, retired from the British Library Map Room. Committee members will serve three?year terms that will rotate on a staggered schedule. Assisting with the administration of the office will be Bebe B. Woody, cultural resource management specialist with the National Park Service at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and one of the organizers of the original Roanoke Decoded symposium. She will serve as liaison between the office and the National Park Service as well as serve as an associate editor for the newsletter. Call for Assistance Please submit any materials you think would be appropriate for the newsletter-offprints of articles to be abstracted, descriptions of research you are presently engaged in, announcements of publication and paper presentation opportunities, and so forth-as well as suggestions concerning the general content of the newsletter. All participants in the Roanoke Decoded symposium have been placed on the newsletter's mailing list; however, if you know of other scholars who were not participants but are engaged in studies related to Roanoke colonization, please let us know so their names can be added to the mailing list. We would like to bring together a broad range of scholars-people working in a variety of disciplines as well as both beginning and well-established researchers. In addition, if you have suggestions or ideas about other responsibilities the Roanoke Colonies Research Office could or should assume, please let us know. At least one of our future projects is compiling a computerized bibliographic database of materials relating to the various Roanoke colonization efforts. Suggestions about other possible future projects will be appreciated. To contact us, please write or call our office: Dr. E. Thomson Shields, Jr. We look forward to serving as a conduit for information, helping us all keep in closer communication about the work we are doing concerning the Roanoke colonies. The Roanoke Decoded symposium, rather than being a presentation of conclusive findings, thus is a beginning for even more exciting research and discussion ahead. Top
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