University of North Carolina at Greensboro -- Faculty -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth Cowling Musical Score and Personal Papers Collection
Collection
Identifier: CC 0002
Abstract
Elizabeth Cowling was born in Northfield, Minnesota. She attended Carleton College, where she received her B.A. degree in Philosophy and went on to Columbia University, where she received her M.A. degree in Economics. Her Master'sand Ph.D. in Music were earned at Northwestern University.Dr. Cowling studied in Europe, starting in Paris in 1929, where she worked with Paul Bazelaire and studied with Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet. In 1950 she was a student of Pablo...
Dates:
1937 - 1987; Other: Date acquired: 1977
Michael F. Parker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0148
Abstract
Michael Fleming Parker was a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at UNCG from 1992-2019. He received his Bachelor of Arts from UNC Chapel Hill in 1984 and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia in 1988. Over the course of his career, Parker published ten books and dozens of articles and essays. He was the first to hold the UNCG Nicholas and Nancy Vacc Distinguished Professorship and won many awards, including the Mary Hobson Award in Arts and...
Dates:
1962 - 2021