BROWN BAG SERIES

On a regular basis the Dresher Center will sponsor opportunities for faculty members to present their humanities research in progress to their peers in an informal setting over lunch. Thanks to the generous support of the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences refreshments will be provided.

Spring 2010

February 19, 2010

Amy Froide (HIST): "Female Investors in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Examining the Stock Portfolios of Early Modern Women", and David Hoffman (LLC): "A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Exploration of Collegiate Civic Engagement"

March 8, 2010 

Piotr Gwiazda (ENGL): "Ether: Poetry in the Age of Empire",  and Kimberly Moffitt (AMST):"Exploring the Construction of White femininity among 'The Princess and the Frog's' Lead Female Characters"

April 21, 2010

Jessica Pfeifer (PHIL): "Organisms and their Environment: Abstraction and Probabilities in Evolutionary Theroy",  and Gloria Chuku (AFST): "Confronting the Silences: Gender, Ethnicity and the Biafra-Nigeria War"  

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Fall 2010

September 27, 2010

Violeta Laura Columbo (LLC): “Writing Resources Available to Graduate International Students and their Effect on Academic Success”, and Phil Seng (PHIL): Theorizing the Movie-going Experience: To Define or Not to Define?

October 22, 2010

Dawn Biehler (GES):  "Gender, Race, Class and Bugs: Exploring Social Position in the History of Domestic Pest Control", and Tom Field (MLLI): "Cultural Interference in Language Structure in Roman and Early Medieval Aquitania"

November 17, 2010

Michelle Osherow (ENGL): “Wives, Fears and Foreskins: Early Modern Reproach of Zipporah and Michael”, and Nicoleta Barzan (MLLI): “Irresistibly French: Female Stardom and Frenchness”

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Spring 2011

March 14, 2011

Meredith Oyen (HIST): "Thunder without Rain: American NGOs and  Hong Kong Refugees" , and                 Danika Rockett  (LLC) "Single Women in the Borders: Religion and  Philanthropy as Paths to Social Action in Victorian Britain"   

April 13, 2011

Terry Bouton (HIST):  "Foreign Founders: How European Investors Helped Write the U.S. Constitution (and Check American Democracy)", and Tracy Irish (LLC):  Developing STEM Academies: Teacher Perceptions of the STEM Academy Measurement Tool as the Catalyst to Develop STEM-focused Professional Learning Communities