"She has a demonstrated track record in leading a university's library in providing innovative services, implementing new technologies, and collaborating with colleges and departments across the campus to better serve the needs of faculty and students, and to help students succeed and become lifelong learners." Razzaghi is a situational leader with extensive experience and a stellar background in higher academic administration," WCU Provost Alison Morrison-Shetlar said in announcing the appointment. Sally, WCU's founding dean of library services, who retired Dec. Razzaghi, library dean at the university in Edinburg, Texas, since July 2007, will be filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Dana M. Razzaghi, dean of library at the University of Texas-Pan American, will join Western Carolina University in the fall semester as its next dean of library services. "Jimmy" Cooper and Harrah's Entertainment. Funds to match a state grant for the position came from a number of sources over the course of several years, including the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Friends of Sequoyah organization, Cherokee businessman James A. The $1 million Sequoyah Distinguished Professorship in Cherokee Studies at WCU was fully funded in 1998. Riggs earned his doctorate and master's degree in anthropology from the University of Tennessee and his bachelor's degree in anthropology from Wake Forest University. A board member for Friends of Junaluska and the Junaluska Museum, he also serves as executive board member for the National Trail of Tears Association in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was Native Affairs Liaison Committee chair for the southeastern Archaeological Conference.
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Riggs has an extensive list of publications and reports credits and has presented at numerous professional meetings and conferences. "I see building that relationship as the core mission for the Sequoyah professor, and I'm eager to work with the Cherokee Studies Program at WCU to grow and deepen the links with the tribe through engaged and applied scholarship."Ī research archaeologist at UNC Chapel Hill since 2001, he worked previously as deputy tribal historical preservation officer for the Eastern Band. "It is particularly important that we reinforce existing collaborations and partnerships between WCU and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and that we explore new ways of working together to build stronger ties between the tribe and the university," Riggs said. "My colleagues at Western have undertaken exciting initiatives in native health, Cherokee language, history, archeology and public heritage, and I look forward to joining their efforts and building on the foundational work of my predecessors, Robert Conley and Tom Hatley," he said. Riggs used the words "honored and humbled" to describe the opportunity of joining the faculty at WCU and serving in the Sequoyah Professorship. In his position with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC Chapel Hill, he is helping to establish the National Historic Trail of Tears Long-Distance Trail in the southwestern corner of WNC. Riggs specializes in Cherokee studies and has worked in Western North Carolina for more than 20 years studying the lives of Cherokee families during the removal era of the 1830s. "His arrival at WCU marks a renewed institutional commitment to honoring, preserving and understanding the history and culture of our region's native people."
He approaches his work with a rare sensitivity that has impressed academics and tribal members alike," Starnes said. "Brett Riggs is an accomplished archeologist with deep ties with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Riggs will build upon existing partnerships between tribal and university leaders and will play an important role in developing and implementing future projects involving WCU, the Eastern Band and other Native American constituents, said Richard Starnes, dean of WCU's College of Arts and Sciences.
He will move into a multi-year, fixed-term faculty position held previously by Robert Conley, a noted Native American scholar and prolific author who died last February. Riggs' appointment to the endowed professorship, which is effective Aug. Riggs, a research archaeologist at the UNC Chapel Hill who has worked with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on various projects since the early 1990s, will become the new Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University.
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