Mara Cohen Ioannides

Mara W. Cohen Ioannides
English Dept., Missouri State University
901 S. National, Springfield, MO 54897
417-836-4163

Senior Instructor, English Dept., Missouri State University
Doctorate of Science in Jewish Studies (expected graduation 2016), Spertus Institute of Jewish Leadership and Learning

Publications:
Jews of Springfield in the Ozarks. with M. Rachel Gholson. Mt. Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Press, 2013.
“Finding and Saving a History: Impact on a Community.” Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies 4(2012): 109-113.
Seeing Traditions. with M. Rachel Gholson. Springfield, MO: Ozarks Studies Institute, 2006. exhibit catalogue
Home, Community, Tradition: The Women of Temple Israel. written, and directed with M. Rachel Gholson. Ozarks Studies
                        Institute, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO. 2004.
Guest Editor. OzarksWatch: The Magazine of the Ozarks — Special Issue: Documenting Jews of the Ozarks. 12.1& 2: 1999.
“The Library That Began in a Hay Wagon.” OzarksWatch 12.1&2(1999): 21-24.
            “A Lost Liturgy.” CCAR Journal Spring 1999: 79-83.

 

Speaking fee $250, but negotiable, travel expenses required
Topics:   Ozarks Jewry, creating a congregational history/archive, Greek Jewry (see A Shout in the Sunshine)