Amanda Thompson is Meridian Community College’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Thompson’s lecture, Stories That Save Us: Teaching Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust, will be presented 2/21/25 at 9:30 am on the college’s campus in the McCain Theatre.
Thompson will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.