#i2amru (I, Too, Am Reinhardt) Volume 1 Number 1 | Page 76

From Africa To Atlanta An interview with Dr. Anne Good yard, and pineapple plants in our back garden. At least once a year, we would see a massive migration of big black driver ants. And the Efik people of that area were full of joy, it seemed to me. I have very good memories of our four and half years there.” “I’m an American girl. I was born in Ann Arbor, but my parents are from Minnesota,” said Dr. Good. Although she was born in the U.S, Dr. Good spent a significant amount of time in Africa while growing up. Her parents were missionaries, which allowed them to live in three different parts of Africa that were already Christian. “We moved to the part of Ethiopia that is now Eritrea when I was two, and we lived there about 2 1/2 years. Although my parents are very practical and grounded people, at the time that we lived there, a massive civil war was going on. I don’t remember ever feeling frightened, though,” 76 After she returned to the United States for a short time, her family moved to Nigeria West Africa, to the southern part of the country. “I really loved Nigeria; where we lived was an excellent place to be a child,” Dr. Good reminisced. “For example, we had guava and cashew trees to climb in our front, By Andrea Eison in the countryside in KwaZulu-Natal at a place called Enhlanhleni, which means ‘place of luck’,” remembered Dr. Good. Once Dr. Anne Good returned to the United States she attended St. Louis University, where she received a B.A in History, and later entered the University of Minnesota, where she received her M.A and Ph.D. in History. After she graduated from the University of Minnesota, she married Dr. Jonathan Good, who is also now a History professor at Reinhardt University. After Nigeria, they then moved to South Africa. She was eleven when they arrived, and eighteen when the family went back to America. “When I think of ‘home’, I still often think of where we lived in South Africa -- which was out They hoped to escape the cold and brutal winters of the northern Midwest, so they began to look around for jobs in the South. “After finishing my dissertation, I knew it would be hard to find a job, because opportunities in the field of History would be very limited,” she remembered. Having two people looking for a job in History only made the hunt even harder. When Dr. Jonathan Good was asked why he believes his wife came to Reinhardt, he replied jok- (Photo courtesy of Donald Gregory) Dr. Anne Good joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of History in 2004, and she also now serves as the History Program Coordinator. After being a professor at Reinhardt University for ten years, Dr. Anne Good has built up a trove of relationships with her students as well as the faculty and staff members. “When something is challenging and you have to work hard for something--that is the way college should be.” “I would like to think I’m the reason she