Dr. Carol Morrow Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents pertaining to the Native American research completed by Dr. Carol A Morrow including histories, correspondence, legal papers and other documents pertaining in large part to the Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory as well as other Native American Groups. Another large portion of this collection is in reference to supplemental materials used to document tenure acceptance for Dr. Morrow including several volumes of support documents of professional as well as scholarly achievement and teaching effectiveness. Financial papers are also included in the collection of which the vast majority pertain the Native American Tribe budgets for fiscal years ranging from 2000-2002. The financial papers also make reference to funding such as the Harryette Campbell fund for scholarships for students of Anthropology at SEMO and funding for research. Encompassed in the collection also are various document pertaining to field work of Dr. Morrow and her students, the large portion pertaining to the Hunze-Evans Site in south Cape Girardeau County. Additional records include publications correspondence with several influential people, as well as records pertaining to Dr. Morrow’s involvement in the change of the university’s mascot as well as the university’s involvement with Native Americans. The contents are arranged chronologically within each series and subseries except for the alphabetical correspondence. The tenure materials were kept in Dr. Carol A. Morrow’s original order according to volume and section.
Dates
- Creation: 1988-2009
Rights Statement
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Biographical / Historical
Dr. Carol A. Morrow came to Southeast Missouri State University in 1991 as an Assistant Professor. In 2004 she was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2007 was promoted to Professor. She retired in 2012. Dr. Morrow received both her Bachelor of Arts (1973) and Master of Arts (1979) in Anthropology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS while she received her Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1988. Dr. Morrow’s research interests include North American archaeology, archaeology method and theory, Native American history and culture and contemporary Native American issues. Her work was published in several journals and books including "Blade Technology and Non-local Cherts: Hopewell Traits at Twenhafel, Southern Illinois", book chapter in Current Research in the Mississippi Valley, edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert Dunnell, The University of Alabama Press, 1998.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection pertains to the research interests of Dr. Carol A. Morrow. Morrow, former professor of Anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University retired in the spring of 2012. The greatest depth of this collection is in reference to Dr. Morrow’s research interests of Native American history and current Native American issues.
Provenance
Donated by Carol A. Morrow, May 2012.
- Title
- Guide to the Carol A. Morrow Papers 1988- 2009
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Deseray Helton
- Date
- January 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository
One University Plaza, MS 4600
Cape Girardeau Missouri 63701 United States
5736512245
semoarchives@semo.edu