Summer Honors Symposium

Symposium Facilitator

After teaching literature and creative writing at Waynesburg College, a Presbyterian school in southwestern Pennsylvania, Dr. Brad Gambill returned to his home region to take over John Brown’s prestigious Honors Scholars Program.

He studied Native American Literature as an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma and as a doctoral student at Oklahoma State University. He has authored papers and given scholarly presentations on a number of themes related to Native American literature, art, and film—including Indian Humor, the documentaries of Sandy Sunrising Osawa (Makah), the fiction of Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), and the poetry of Laura Tohe (Navajo).

In 2002, Gambill was invited to attend a Summer Symposium hosted by National Institute for Humanities on Native American literature and film at Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington. Along with his wife (Patty) and two boys (Tucker and Will), he attends the First Presbyterian Church in Siloam Springs, AR.