July 5, 2002

Former Chairman of the NEH Heads Back South; Fired President Also Loses His Tenure

By COURTNEY LOWERY and JULIANNE BASINGER

SOUTHERN COMFORT: After concentrating on the scholarly work of an entire nation as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities until 2001, William R. Ferris says he's happy to return to his own scholarship as an associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Ferris, 60, did not have an easy tenure at the NEH. Congress had cut the endowment's budget, and the agency was under attack. But Mr. Ferris

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