The Between Fences Project Scholars

The Arizona Humanities Council provided the six Between Fences host sites with access to the expertise of two scholars Dr. Edward J. Williams and Anna Johnson for the duration of the project.

Ed Williams, content scholar for the Between Fences project, is professor emeritus in Politics and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, an expert on Mexico and the borderlands, and a member of AHC’s Speakers Bureau. He contributed the article “Fences: From Either Side” to the AHC newsletter Arizona Insight.

Anna Johnson, the museum expert for the Between Fences project, is a museum and historical consultant and former Curator of Education at the Tempe Historical Museum. Anna helped guide the host sites in their development of local exhibits, docent training, and teacher education, which she also did for the Arizona tour of the Smithsonian’s Yesterday’s Tomorrows exhibition. She contributed the article “Between Fences - Behind The Scenes” to Arizona Insight.

Dr. Williams also initiated, edited, and contributed to a special “fences” issue of The Journal of the Southwest, an interdisciplinary journal published quarterly by the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. This special issue of a scholarly journal constitutes a significant achievement of the Between Fences project in Arizona, for which AHC thanks Dr. Williams, Director Joe Wilder and staff member Jeff Banister of the Southwest Center, and other contributors to the issue including Anna Johnson and Robbie Davis, AHC’s Smithsonian contact with Museum on Main Street. The Autumn 2008 issue is available from the Southwest Center at http://swctr.web.arizona.edu/.