Dr. Eileen Yanoviak discusses her book, The Tenacious Nurse Nichols, this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10 am to hear Artists Talk with LVA.
Eileen Yanoviak holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Louisville. She is the former Director of the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana. Yanoviak is the coeditor of a collection of essays entitled Formations of Identity: Society, Politics, and Landscape and the author of Gaela Erwin: Reframing the Past.
She teaches for Northern Kentucky University and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and is now a Program Officer with the J. Graham Brown Foundation. Her new book is The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero