| Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D. |
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| Friday, 16 May 2008 | |
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Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D. Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Ph.D. is an associate Professor of English and Scholar-in-Residence at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. She was the recipient of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Professor of the Year for Georgia Award in 2006 and also the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship at Shorter College in 2007. Dr. Acevedo Butcher is the author of several well-reviewed, reprinted, and re-issued books in the fields of religion, medieval literature, mystics, and linguistics. She is also a widely sought international speaker on the subjects of religion and linguistics. In 2007 she was the Georgia Commission on Women Nominee for Georgia Woman of the Year. Dr. Acevedo Butcher was also a Fulbright recipient twice. She taught as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea for the 2004-2005 academic year, and she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, researching in the British Library, in the Bodleian, and in other libraries at Oxford and Cambridge in 1989-1990, with a Fulbright Grant Extension for three months in 1990-1991. She is a lifetime member of the Fulbright Association and a Fulbright International Education Task Force member. Dr. Acevedo Butcher graduated from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Masters Degree in English. Her dissertation title is “Eighteen Sermons by Ælfric: Translations and Commentary.” Dr. Acevedo Butcher is a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars; she also received the Graduate Teaching Award at the University of Georgia. She was a Rotary International Graduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, studying German language and literature. She is also a Shorter College English graduate, summa cum laude, and an honor graduate of Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. Dr. Acevedo Butcher met her husband Sean in England during her first Fulbright. Sean Butcher is originally from Hereford, England. He is a qualified British solicitor (lawyer), as well as a computer consultant, with an MBA in Information Systems and Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. They moved to Rome during the summer of 2002 with their two children. Dr. Acevedo Butcher is a frequent volunteer and speaker at Rome area schools in grades K-12. Her most unbelievable Fulbright moment was meeting Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. |
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