2012-2013 Lecture Series
Lucy Ferris- English Honor: A Novelist's Field Research Among the Pashtuns
Beth Notar- Anthropology Civilized Driving or Flooring It! Contested Mobility in Urban China
Sonia Cardenas- Political Science The Global Rise of National Human Rights Institutions
Craig Schneider - Biology DNA Sequencing and Species Recognition
Cristopher Geiss - Environmental Science Predicting the Fate of Arctic Carbon
Laura Holt - Psychology Who is at Greatest Risk for Problem Drinking in the First Year of College?
Davarian Baldwin - American Studies An Oasis in the Desert city: ASU and the Revitalization of Downtown Phoenix
2011-2012 Lecture Series
Dan Lloyd—Philosophy Mind as Music
Susan Masino—Pyschology Diet Therapy for Brain Disease
Anne Lambright—Language & Cultural Production and Transitional Justice Efforts: The Case of Peru
Culture Studies
Christopher Hager—English Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Jack Dougherty—Educational Studies Scholarly Publishing with open Access Web-Books: On the Line Line and Writing History in the Digital Age
Lisa-Anne Foster—Biology Tracking the Microbial Populations Inhabiting Humans
Seth Sanders—Religion The Rise and Fall of Ancient Jewish Science: 'Pagan' Astronomy and the Language Language of Knowledge in the Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Peter Yoon—Computer Science Cheap Computing: Using General-Purpose GPUs in Scientific Applications
2010-2011 Lecture Series
Barbara Benedict—Classics 'Male' and 'Female' Novels? Gendered Fictions and British Reading
Public, 1770-1830
Zayde Antrim—History Cartography and Regionalism in the Early Islamic World
Chloe Wheatley—English The Prose Works of John Milton
Madalene Spezialetti—Computer Science Welcome to Virt-U: Problem Solving in the Virtual Video World
Judy Dworin—Theater/Dance Creating Bridges: Arts Intervention for Children with Incarcerated Parents
Hebe Guardiola-Diaz—Biology Mylein Matters
James Trostle—Anthropology The Ethnography of a Bus Ride in Costal Ecuador (and what it can say
about the environmental change, scale and landscape)
David Rosen—English Literature an the Idea of Privacy (working title)
2009-2010 Lecture Series
Robert Fleming—Biology Altering cellular signals to reveal cell specification mechanisms during
development
Raymond Baker—International Politics The epoch story of Islam: The struggles of ordinary Muslims in
extraordinary times
Sarah Raskin—Psychology Remembering to remember: Studies of prospective memory
W. Miller Brown—Philosophy The Case for Perfection: Genetic enhancement and sport
Alden Gordon—Art History The organization of patronage and art education in 18th-century France
Andrea Dyrness—Educational Studies Schooling the Transitional Citizen: Education and Civic Identity in Two
Salvadoran Schools
Ralph Morelli—Computer Science How free software is changing the world
Maurice Wade—Philosophy Black Skin, White Masks: Frantz Fanon and the Lived Experiences of the
Black
2007–2008 Lecture Series
G. James Wen—Economics
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Why Did China Retreat to Its Agrarian Past after the Song Dynasty?
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Mark P. Silverman—Physics
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Finding the Length of the Emperor’s Nose: A Test of Collective Knowledge
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Clinton Bailey—Research Fellow
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The Bible’s Bedouin Background
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Paul Lauter—English
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Multiculturalism and Immigration Shock
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Dan Lloyd—Philosophy & Neuroscience
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This Is Your Brain on Politics?
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Barry Schaller—Public Policy
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Bioethics on Trial: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology
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Ellison Findly—Religion & Asian Studies
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Religion and Textiles in Southeast Asia
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James Trostle—Anthropology
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Disease Transmission and Social Change: Anthropology Meets Public Health in Northern Coastal Ecuador
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Luis Figueroa—History
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Border City Boulevard: F.D.R. Avenue and Colonial Suburbanism in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Christoph Geiss—Physics
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Pingo Scars: Remnants of Connecticut’s Glacial Past
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2005–2006 Lecture Series
Theresa Morris—Sociology
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Institutional Racism and Organizational Change in the U.S. Banking Industry
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Martha Risser—Classics
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Feasting at Isthmia
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Frank Kirkpatrick—Religion
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Community Beyond Political Philosophy: The Political Thought of John Macmurray
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Mary Lewis—Fine Art
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The Route to Les Lauves: Cezanne’s Studios and Evolving Studio Practice
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Jonathan Elukin—History
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Deceiving the Devil: Shylock and Salvation in The Merchant of Venice
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Timothy Curran—Chemistry
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Conformational Constraint: Putting Peptides on a Leash
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Christoph Geiss—Physics
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Soil Magnetism: What Iron Oxide Minerals Know about Regional Climate
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Dan Lloyd—Philosophy
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The Brain and Consciousness
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Mark Silverman—Physics
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The Inside Story of a Black Hole and Other Dark Matters of the Cosmos
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Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven—Health & Human Rights
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Developments in Human Rights Training for Health Professionals in South Africa
[postponed to 2006-2007]
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