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Graves selected Humanities Instructor of the Year
MENDENHALL – Social science instructor J. Toby Graves of Magee has been selected as Copiah-Lincoln Community College’s 2015 Humanities Instructor of the Year. Graves is a charter member of the faculty at the college’s Simpson County Center, which opened in 2005.
Graves teaches World Civilization, American History and African-American History.
Prior to coming to Co-Lin, Graves taught high school and junior high history. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College in secondary education in 1999 and a master’s degree in history from the University of SouthernMississippi in 2003 where he has also completed all class work for a Ph.D. in history.
In 2011, he received Co-Lin’s Howell C. Garner High Performance Award. Graves was named the Simpson County Center’s Outstanding Academic Advisor in 2014. He and his wife, Kathy, are the parents of three children, Garrett, Greyson, and Gretta.
Graves presented a lecture titled “Popular Television and Racial Attitudes: 1960s-1990s.”
The Mississippi Humanities Council celebrates the occasion by supporting Humanities Teacher Awards to one humanities faculty member at each institution of higher learning in the state (29 total). Only the president or appropriate dean can nominate the faculty member.
