Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series
Spring 2012
Beginning Monday, January 23 and every Monday afterwards, the Northeastern Humanities Center, in conjunction with the Dean’s Office for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, hosts its faculty works-in-progress colloquium from 12 to 1 PM in 162 Meserve.
January 23
Terry Fulmer, Dean, Bouve College of Health Sciences,
“The Prevalence of Elder Mistreatment – Detection in Emergency Rooms vs. Detection in Primary Care Clinics”
January 30
Stephen Nathanson, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy,
“Conceptual Poverty and Political Polarization”
February 6
Neal Lerner, Associate Professor of English and Director, Campus Writing Center, “Writing, Identity, and Meaning Making”
February 13
Dana Gioia, Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture, University of Southern California; former Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; former Vice-President for Marketing, General Foods,
“A Catholic Writer in America”
February 27
Richard Wamai, Assistant Professor of African American Studies,
"Conducting Field Work on Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Case for Leishmaniasis in Kenya"
March 12
Katherine Luongo, Assistant Professor of History,
"Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft and International Asylum"
March 19
Alan Klein, Professor of Cultural Anthropology,
“Baseball and Globalization: Creative Responses from the Dominican Republic"
March 26
Tom Vicino, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
“Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy”
April 2
Ramiro Martinez, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
“Extending Immigration and Crime Studies: National Implications and Local Settings”
April 9
Matthew McDonald, Assistant Professor of Music,
"Transcendental Temporality in the Music of Charles Ives"
April 23
Barry Bluestone, Dean, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs,
"Industrial Renaissance: The Future of Manufacturing in Massachusetts"
April 30
Denise Horn, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,
"Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship"
May 7
Neil Alper, Associate Professor of Economics; and Gregory Wassall, Associate Professor of Economics,"Is There an Artistic Dividend in the Labor Market?"
Fall 2011
Starting Monday, September 12 and every Monday afterwards, the Northeastern University Humanities Center in conjunction with the Dean’s Office for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, is hosting a faculty works-in-progress colloquium from 12 to 1 PM in 162 Meserve. Come join us for lunch and inspirational discussions with Northeastern’s leading scholars.
September 12
William M. Fowler Jr., Distinguished Professor of History
“American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781–1783”
September 19
Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Law and Public Policy
“Grand Visions vs. Low-Hanging Fruit: How Cities Respond to Climate Change”
September 26
James Alan Fox, Lipmann Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy,
"Marksmanship and Scholarship: The Campaign to Allow Guns on Campus"
October 3
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Associate Professor of English
“The Uneven Atlantic: Mapping New World Textual Spaces”
October 17
Gia Barboza, Assistant Professor of African American Studies,
"Trauma, Truancy and Time: Promoting Resiliency and Recovery Through a Youth Development Program using a Community-Based Participatory Framework "
October 31
Ronald Sandler, Associate Professor of Philosophy
"Global Climate Change and the Ethics of Species Preservation"
November 14
Alisa K. Lincoln, Associate Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences
“Literacy in the Lives and Recovery of People with Serious Mental Illness"
November 21
William Dickens, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy
“Micro-Lending and Economic Psychology”
November 28
Natasha Frost, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
“Does Incarceration Cause Crime? The Impact of Rates of Prison Cycling on Crime Rates in Communities”
December 5
Nicole Aljoe, Assistant Professor of English
"'Do You Remember the Days of Slav'ry?': Creolizing the Neo-Slave Narrative in Contemporary Caribbean Cultural Production"
December 12
Michael C. Tolley, Associate Professor of Political Science
"Judicialization of Politics in Europe: Keeping Pace with Strasbourg"