Sean Williams papers

Collection

Identifier: PP-01

Staff Only

Content Description

Teaching portfolio includes program descriptions, evaluations of faculty (evaluations of students have been removed), evaluations of Sean Williams by students, and assorted publications, writings, translation work, and other activities outside of the programs.

Includes materials from the following programs (1991-2015):

Introduction to the Performing Arts (1991-1992); Popular Art and Culture (1992-1993); Music Cultures of the World (1993-1994); The Irish Experience (1994-1995); Foundations of the Performing Arts (1995-1996); Asian Performing Arts and Culture (1996-1997); Perspectives on Ireland (1997-1998); Envisioning Home (1998-1999); Performing Arts and Culture (1999-2000); Awakening Ireland (2000-2001); The Expression of Self, West to East (2001-2002); Intimate Nature (2002-2003); Ireland: Living Between Worlds (2003-2004); Sabbatical Year (2004-2005); Asian Culture and Arts (2005-2006); Ireland Program (2006-2007); Perception, Mind and Reality (2007-2008); Performance Works: Telling Stories (2008-2009); Ireland: Between History and Memory (2009-2010); Music and Movement in Nature and Culture (2010-2011); Equatorial Studies (2011-2012) and Slavic and Celtic Folklore (spring 2012); Music Intensive (2012-2013); Ireland in History and Memory (2013-2014); Sacred Movement, Sacred Sound (2014-2015)

Dates

Creation: 1991 - 2015

Creator

Williams, Sean (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright in the collection materials may not lie with The Evergreen State College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and does not extend to any copyright holders in the materials. Researchers are solely responsible for clearing any necessary copyright permissions.

Biographical / Historical

Sean Williams began teaching at The Evergreen State College in 1991. She received her BA from the University of California in Berkeley in classical guitar performance. Her MA and Ph.D in ethnomusicology came from University of Washington in Seattle in the 1980s. She was a visiting faculty member on the shipboard university, Semester at Sea, that visited Nova Scotia, Reykjavik, St. Petersburg, Gdansk, Antwerp, LeHavre, Dublin, and Bilbao. Her focus at The Evergreen State College is on ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, and Asian Studies.