The Down Home team

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The Down Home team

The Down Home project staff is ably anchored by noted Southern Jewish historian Leonard Rogoff and by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Channing.

The museum exhibition will be designed by Darcie Fohrman, one of the most sought after creators of interactive museum exhibits. The Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte is our partner in exhibit production.

Philanthropists, community leaders, and scholars from all parts of North Carolina and beyond have joined the Down Home advisory and planning boards. Steering committees for a $1.25 million campaign are being established in all of North Carolina’s major communities.

Distinguished academic and cultural institutions throughout the state have joined with the JHFNC to help make Down Home a success. As of January, 2006, collaborating institutions are:

North Carolina Museum of History §*
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
North Carolina Humanities Council
Department of Judaic Studies, Duke University
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, UNC - Chapel Hill
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
University of North Carolina at Asheville §
University of North Carolina Press
Levine Museum of the New South**
The Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center
Greensboro Historical Museum§
Cape Fear Museum§§
Charlotte Jewish Archive

§ Down Home exhibit venue
*Down Home film premiere venue
**Down Home development partner and exhibit opening venue

		Down Home Advisory Board Joyce Antler, Brandeis University Emily Bingham, Louisville, KY Hon. Franklin Block, Wilmington Elizabeth Buford, NC Museum of History Jeffrey Crow, NC Office of Archives and History Eli Evans, Revson Foundation Marcie Cohen Ferris, UNC-Chapel Hill Joel Fleischman, Duke University Hon. Stanley Fox, Oxford Rabbi John Friedman, Judea Reform Congregation, Durham David Goldfield, UNC-Charlotte Macy Hart, Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Jonathan Hess, UNC-Chapel Hill Jodi Magness, UNC-Chapel Hill Eric Meyers, Duke University William Moore, Greensboro Historical Museum Tom Rankin, Duke Center for Documentary Studies Hon. Marshall Rauch, Gastonia Dale Rosengarten, College of Charleston, SC Jonathan Sarna, Brandeis University Barbara Smith, Durham John David Smith, NC State University Emily Zimmern, Levine Museum of the New South
		Down Home Planning Board Prof. Yaakov Ariel, Associate Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill Prof. Mark Bauman, Professor of History, Atlanta Metropolitan College Prof. Richard Chess, Associate Professor of Literature and Language Director, Center for Jewish Studies, UNC-Asheville Prof. David Crowe, Professor of History, Elon University, Greensboro Prof. Monika Fleming, Chair, English Department, Edgecomb Community College, Tarboro Darcie Fohrman, President, Darcie Fohrman Associates, Monterey, CA Harlan Gradin, Ph.D., Asst. Director, North Carolina Humanities Council Prof. Dana Greene, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Appalachian State University, Boone Marcia Horowitz, Historian; Chair, Down Home Triad Oral History Committee Prof. Sarah Malino, Professor of History, Guilford College, Greensboro Prof. James Martin, Chair, Department of Government, History, and Justice, Campbell University, Buies Creek Prof. Sydney Nathans, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University Linda Scher, NC Commission on the Holocaust Prof. John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, UNC-Charlotte Beverly Tetterton-Opheim, Archivist, Temple Israel, Wilmington; Special Collections Librarian, New Hanover Public Librarian Prof. David Zonderman. Associate Head, Director of Public History, NCSU