Andrea Hammer
Contact information

607-255-7195

agh24@cornell.edu

456 Kennedy Hall

Ithaca, New York 14853

Degrees

M.F.A. in Photography, Bard College (2000)

Ph.D. in English, University of California at Davis (1981)

M.A. in English, Humboldt State University (1975)

B.A. in Sociology, Whittier College (1968)

Teaching Experience

Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University
    (2004-present)

Professor of English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (1998 to 2004)

Associate Professor of English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
    (1988 to 1998)

Assistant Professor of English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
    (1982-1988)

Selected Professional Experience

Founder and director, SlackWater Center, 2003-2004

Founder and director, Southern Maryland Documentation Project, 1985-2004

Project developer and executive editor, SlackWater Journal, vols. 1-4

Photographic exhibit, “Points of Convergence,” Bard College Gallery 2000

Photographic exhibit, “Local Knowledge,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland Gallery, 1998

Traveling photographic exhibit, “But Now When I Look Back: Farm Security        Administration Photographs of Southern Maryland, 1985-1989”

Series developer and editor, “In Our Voices,” Enterprise Newspaper

Oral history consultant and workshop facilitator


Selected Achievements

Faculty Innovation in Teaching Grant, Cornell University, 2007

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, 2003

Bard College MFA fellowships, 1998-2000

National Merit Winner, American Association of State and Local History, 1989

 




 

Selected Publications

The Soundlines Project, http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/la418/Endicott.html



"Audible Evidence: On Listening to Places," Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary         

Media, http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/HammerAudio/index.html

SlackWater: A Journal on Environmental and Cultural Change, Vol 4: Crassostrea            virginica, 2004

SlackWater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, Vol. 3: The Tobacco Issue, 2001

SlackWater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, Vol. 2: Cedar Point 1942, 1999

SlackWater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, Vol. 1: St. George Island, 1998

© 2008, Department of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University