Past Presentations to the Social Science Forums

Spring 2008:

Jeff Simering, Council of Great City Schools; Dylan Conger, Assistant Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University; Kevin Maxwell, Superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools "No Child Left Behind and Beyond:  Educational Policy Issues for the Next President"

Keith Taylor, Founder of Modest Needs Sponsored by the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship "Social Entrepreneurship"

Chris Flavin, President of The Worldwatch Institute Sponsored by UMBC's Public Policy Graduate Student Association "Climate Change and Energy Policy" Click here for streamed video

Julie Rovner, Health Policy Correspondent for National Public Radio Sponsored by the Hilltop Institute and UMBC's Public Policy Graduate Student Association "Health Care Policy Issues for the Next President" Click here for streamed video

Carlo DiClemente, Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMBC Professor of Psychology The Lipitz Lecture "Making a Difference?  Evaluating the Complicated Process of Behavior Change" Click here for streamed video

Bruce Levine, James G. Randall Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Low Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History "Confederate Emancipation"

Fall 2007:

Cynthia Enloe, Professor of International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE) and Women's Studies, Clark University Sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies "Women, Men and the Iraq War:  What a Feminist Curiosity Reveals" Click here for streamed video of the lecture.

George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivener Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University . The Mullen Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Economics “Immigration Policy and the Economic Impact of Immigration” Click here for streamed video of the lecture.

Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University The Webb Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History "Ideologies of Empires: The British Case and its American Echoes"

David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and panel Sponsored by the Concord Coalition, UMBC Departments of Economics, Political Science and Public Policy, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program and the Erickson School of Aging "Fiscal Wake Up Tour" Click here for streamed video of the lecture.

Jason Loviglio, Professor of American Studies and Media and Communication Studies, UMBC Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities "Media Convergence, Media Democracy" Click here for streamed video of the lecture.

Ronald Walters, Director of the African American Leadership Institute and Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies "Black Leadership in America and the African Diaspora: Its Promises and Problems"

Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Studies Program "Mental Illness and the Campus Community"

Spring 2007:

Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University The Mullen Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Economics “American Leadership and the Human Capital Century: Virtues of the Past" View lecture online

Merna Villarejo, Professor Emerita of Microbiology, University of California, Davis Sponsored by the NIH/Meyerhoff Evaluation Research Program “Strengths of Using Mixed Methods in Evaluating a Minority Science Enrichment Program" View lecture online

Daphne Harrison, Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, UMBC; Angela Moorjani, Professor Emerita of Modern Languages and Linguistics, UMBC; Joan Korneman, Professor Emerita of English, UMBC; and Claudia Lenhoff, UMBC Alumna, Executive Director of Champaign County Heath Care Consumers “25 Years of Scholarship, Activism and Teaching in Gender & Women's Studies" View lecture online

Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Studies Program "If Now, What Then, If Then, What Now?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change" View lecture online

Laura F. Edwards, Professor of History, Duke University Low Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History "Status Without Rights: African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century South" View lecture online

Fall 2006:

Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln The Webb Lecture, Sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for the Humanities "Princess Elizabeth Travels Across her Kingdom in Life, in Text, and on Stage” View lecture online

Bernard Fayall, Lauren Abramson, and Bonnita Spikes, Open Society Institute Community Fellows “Youth Mentoring, Restorative Justice, and Death Penalty Abolition: Innovations by Baltimore Community Fellows” View lecture online

Thomas Schaller, Professor of Political Science, UMBC “Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South” View lecture online

Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies, Columbia University The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies “Relevance of DuBois for 21st Century Black America” View lecture online

Harris Wofford, former U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), and CEO of the Corporation for National Service, which administers Americorps. 4th Annual Peace Corps History Presentation, sponsored by The Shriver Center Peaceworker Program “The Role of National Service in a Multicultural World:  A History and Future of the Peace Corps” View lecture online

David Berliner, Regents' Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University “High-Stakes Testing and the Corruption of Our Educators" View lecture online

Spring 2006:

Robert Embry, President, The Abell Foundation "Baltimore City Public Schools" Click here for streamed video of lecture

Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher, Artist-In-Resident at the Imaging Research Center [IRC], editorial cartoonist for The Economist magazine of London and former editorial cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun "Editorial Cartoons Move into the 21st Century" Click here for streamed video of lecture

John M. Barry, Prize-Winning Author and Journalist “A Writer's Thoughts on Logic, Nature, People, and Science”

Dr. Susan Barber, Professor of History, College of Notre Dame of Maryland “Sexual Justice in the American Civil War” Click here for streamed video of lecture

Dr. Tyson King-Meadows, Professor of Political Science, UMBC “Revisiting Black Fear over The Voting Rights Act: What's Civics Got To Do with It?” Click here for streamed video of lecture

Dr. Laurence Iannaccone, Koch Professor of Economics, George Mason University “Looking Backwards: A Cross-National Study of Religious Trends” Click here for streamed video of lecture

Dr. James Marten, Professor of History, Marquette University “Coming of Age in the Civil War South” Click here for streamed video of lecture

FALL 2005:

Horace Newcomb, Director, George Foster Peabody Awards, University of Georgia. "Studying Television in the Post-Network Era: Reponses to a Changing Media Industry"

Susan Reverby, Wellesley College and Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program “Gender and Health Policy: An Historian Activist's Perspectives” Click here for streamed video of lecture

Phebe Marr, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace "Understanding Iraq: An Historian's View"

Natalie Sokoloff, Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice “Listening to the Voices of Survivors: Women Who Are Poor and of Color Teach Us about Domestic Violence Alternatives”

Edward D. Berkowitz , Professor of History and Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University "Social Security: The Making of a Crisis”

Carl Mack, Executive Director, National Society of Black Engineers “Black Academic Achievement in Science and Information Technology” Click here for streamed video of lecture

C. Payne Lucas, Co-Founder and President, Africare “Peace Corps and Aid in Africa”

Lawrence Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University “Our Country's Fiscal Future: Opportunity or Disaster?” Click here for streamed video of lecture

SPRING 2005:

Panel Discussion "High-Stakes Education Testing and the 'Lost Curriculum'"

Kevin McCabe,  Professor of Economics and Law, George Mason University. "Neuroeconomics: Brain Imaging and Economic Decision-Making" Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

Alan Elsner, National Correspondent for Reuters “The Crisis in America 's Prisons and Why You Should Care”

Peter Berns, Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations "A Crisis in Confidence?  Ethics and Accountability in the Nonprofit Sector”

Tom Gjelten, National Security Correspondent for National Public Radio "Cuba after Castro: Predicting the Unpredictable”

Mary Ann Saar, Maryland Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services “Maryland 's Project RESTART: A New Direction in Corrections”

David Salkever, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Professor of Public Policy, UMBC ”Promoting Employment for Persons with Disabilities: Are the New Incentives Sufficient?” Click here for Powerpoint Presentation

FALL 2004: Rogers Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. "On a Mission from God? The Story of American Peoplehood Today" Helen Ladd, Associate Director, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy; Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics, Duke University. "Race and Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Meredith McGehee, Executive Director, Alliance for Better Campaigns. “Our Democracy, Our Airwaves” Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable, featuring UMBC faculty Tom Schaller (Political Science), Chris Corbett (English), Jason Loviglio (American Studies), Moderator Susan Dwyer (Philosophy) and Terry Eastland, publisher of The Weekly Standard. “Bias and the Media” Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Panel Discussion “Community Building by Design: Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization in the Baltimore-Washington Area” Sponsored by the Center for Art and Visual Culture, the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems and the Neighborhood Design Center of Baltimore. Azar Nafisi, Author and Visiting Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. “Reading Lolita in Teheran” Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program, the Women's Studies Program, and the Department of English. Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown University, and author of The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining The American Dream. “W.E.B. DuBois Lecture” Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies William Baumol, Professor of Economics, New York University and Emeritus Professor of Economics, Princeton University. “Independent Entrepreneurs and Giant Enterprises: The David-Goliath Partnership" Mullen Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Economics. Scott Stossel, Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly "Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver" Sponsored by the Shriver Peaceworker Program. Ron Andersen, Professor of Health Services and Sociology, UCLA School of Public Health. "The Ethnicity of Patients and Their Doctors:  Implications for Access to and Quality of Care" Co-sponsored by the Department of Public Policy and the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. SPRING 2004: Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Schubert Center for Child Development, Case Western Reserve University. “Linking the Two Ends of Life: What Gerontology Can Learn from Childhood Studies” Sponsored by the Gerontology Ph.D. Program U.S. Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Maryland. “Accountability and Ethics in Government and Public Policy” Sponsored by the Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program and the Department of Political Science Panel discussion in honor of Women’s History Month facilitated by Kriste Lindenmeyer, Associate Professor, UMBC Department of History. “Is There Such a Thing as Women’s Issues in Politics–or Is This Idea Out of Date?” Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program David W. Berson, Vice President and Chief Economist, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae). “Is There a Housing Bubble?” Sponsored by the Department of Economics Daniel W. Sutherland, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Department of Homeland Security. “Civil Liberties: Homeland Security Tradeoffs” Sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Public Policy Charles E. Metcalf, President, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. “The Role of Think Tanks in Policymaking” Sponsored by the Department of Public Policy Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, UMBC. “Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education” Low Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of History FALL 2003: Ann Swanson, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission "What Will it Take to Improve the Chesapeake?" Co-sponsored by the Public Affairs Scholars Program Ka-che Yip, Department of History, UMBC "From Malaria to SARS: Disease, Society and the State in the People’s Republic of China" Hugh Graham Lecture Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Public Policy Clifford Johnson, Director, Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, National League of Cities "Child and Family Policy: Roles for Mayors and Other Municipal Leaders" Co-sponsored by the Public Affairs Scholars Program Robert Boruch, Trustee Professor of Education and Statistics, University of Pennsylvania "The Role of the Campbell Collaboration in Improving the Link Between Research and Policy" Co-sponsored by the Department of Public Policy Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable, featuring four UMBC faculty "Immigration and America’s Future" Sponsored by the Interdisiplinary Studies Program Daniel Hamermesh, Centennial Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin "Time Use, Time Crunch and Work Time in America" Eighth Annual Jack Mullen Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Economics Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College "Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: A Conversation for the 21st Century" The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies Peter Beilenson, Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City Health Department "Substance Abuse Treatment and Policy: Contributions of Research" Co-sponsored by the Department of Psychology   SPRING 2003: John Short, Professor and Chair, UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. "Going for Gold: The Olympics and Global Cities." John Stolle-McAllister, Assistant Professor, UMBC Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. "Localizing the Global: The Cultural Politics of Mayan Social Movements." Sponsored by the Humanities Forum Nicole Lurie, Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professor of Health Policy, RAND Corporation. "The Public Health Infrastructure: Rebuild or Redesign?" Howard Rolston, Director of Planning Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Welfare Reform Experiments—Past, Present and Future." Michael A. Edwards, Director for Governance and Civil Society, Ford Foundation. "From ‘Past Imperfect’ to ‘Future Positive?’: International Cooperation in the 21st Century." Karen Armstrong, Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism. "The Battle for God." Sponsored by the Humanities Forum Interdisciplinary Studies Mosaic Roundtable with Royce Hanson, UMBC Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education; Ray Hoff, UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology; Elissa Levine, NASA Goddard; and Virginia McConnell, UMBC Department of Economics. "Air Quality and Human Health in Baltimore." Steven B. Larsen, Maryland Insurance Commissioner. "The CareFirst Conversion." Sponsored by the Center for Health Program Development and Management. Philip Rutledge, Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. "Social Equity as a Third Pillar of Public Administration - Some Challenges for Policy Sciences." FALL 2002: Barbara Stowasser, Professor of Arabic and Director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University "Islam and Modernity: Radical versus Reformist Islam" Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities; co-sponsored by the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery Phil Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University "Evaluating Gun Policy" Co-sponsored by the Departments of Economics and Sociology, the Public Affairs Scholars Program, and the Policy Sciences Graduate Program Lis Wagner, Associate Professor, University Hospital's Centre for Nursing and Care Research, National Hospital of Denmark "Quality of Care in Assisted Living: Notes from Denmark" Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Center for Health Program Development and Management Stanley Kutler, Emeritus Professor of Law and E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, University of Wisconsin, Madison "An Historian's Adventures with the Law: Liberating Tapes, Papers and Sources" This lecture is being given in honor of Hugh Davis Graham, former Professor of History and Policy Sciences, Dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science and the Policy Sciences Graduate Program Andy Jacobs, Jr., former Member of Congress; Lawyer; Professor of Political Science, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis "Public Office Should Not Be Private Property" Sponsored by the Public Affairs Scholars Program Reba Soffer, Professor of History Emeritus, California State University, Northridge "How Do Intellectual Historians Study Political Thought?" Webb Lecture Sponsored by the Department of History Robin D.G. Kelly, Professor of History and Africana Studies, and Chair, Department of History, New York University The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Economics, Harvard University "Economics Education and Economic Policy: From the Classroom to the White House" Mullen Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Economics Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "The Invisible Heart: Economics and the Crisis of Corporate Governance" Sponsored by Women in Learning and Leadership SPRING 2002: Warren Belasco, Professor of American Studies, UMBC "The Stakes in Our Steaks" Sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Forums Marion Orr, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University "The Politics of Education in Baltimore" Co-sponsored by the Public Affairs Scholars Program Marilyn Moon, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute "Meeting the Challenges of Medicare's Future" Benjamin Barber, Gershon & Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society, University System of Maryland Wilson H. Elkins Professor "Can Democracy Survive the War Between Jihad and McWorld?" Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost Fred Pincus, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, UMBC "Reverse Discrimination" Brian Berry, Professor of Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas "Do Social Scientists Need to Tell Time? Long-wave Perspectives in Economic Development and Political Science" Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems FALL 2001: Robert Provine, Professor of Psychology, UMBC "Laughter: Science, Book Publishing and the Popular Media" Sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Forums Mark Berends, Senior Social Scientist, RAND Corporation "Comprehensive School Reform and Title I Reauthorization" Sponsored by the Policy Sciences Graduate Program and the Social Sciences Forum Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, and Former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors "Reviving the Economy: What Can Policies Do?" Sixth Annual Jack Mullen Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Economics Frank Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University "Why John Henry Newman Entered the Roman Catholic Church: Can We Trust the Apologia?" The Webb Lecture Sponsored by the Department of History Samuel F. Yette, Journalist, Author and Public Servant; Former Head of the Peace Corps and Author of Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America "The Talented Tenth One Century Later" The W. E. B. DuBois Lecture Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities "Welfare Reform: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here?" Sponsored by the Policy Sciences Graduate Program and the Social Sciences Forum Sheila Murray, Economist, RAND Corporation "School Finance Equalization" Sponsored by the Policy Sciences Graduate Program and the Social Sciences Forum SPRING 2001: Robert Durant, Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of Government, University of Baltimore "Can the President of the United States Control the Bureaucracy: Networking in the Shadow of Hierarchy" James Jackson, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan "A National Study of African Americans in the Diversifying America of the 21st Century" Sponsored by the UMBC Graduate School Amitai Etzioni, Professor of Sociology, George Washington University "Privacy: A Communitarian Perspective" Laurence Gruer, Public Health Medicine Consultant, Greater Glasgow Health Board Chris Spry, Chief Executive, Greater Glasgow Health Board, and Chair, Greater Glasgow Drug Action Team "Integrating Primary Care and Substance Abuse Treatment: Lessons from Scotland" Sponsored by the Departments of Psychology and Sociology and Anthropology Bruce C. Vladeck, Senior Vice President of Policy, Mount Sinai NYU Health, and Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration "The Future of Medicare" Sponsored by the Center for Health Program Development and Management Fall 2000: Tyler Cowen, Professor Department of Economics, George Mason University "The Economics of Global Culture" Derek Bickerton, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, UMBC "How Syntax Made Us Human" Kirsten Kingdon, Executive Director of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) "Passing and Enforcing Hate Crimes Laws" Vincent Harding, Professor of Religion and Social Transformation, Iliff of Theology, Denver, CO. W.E.G. DuBois Lecture "Moral Challenges of a Democratic Society for the 21st Century" Peyton Young, The Scott and Barbara Black Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University and Director, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at The Brookings Institution "The Evolution of Social Institutions" Brian Berry, The Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and Professor of Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas. Spring 2000: Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania "Thinking About Food: Balancing Worry and Pleasure" Demetra Nightengale, Urban Institute "The Welfare-to-Work Grants Program: Evaluation Design and Preliminary Evidence" Royce Hanson, UMBC Policy Sciences "The Governance of Smart Growth and the Political Economy of Urban Sprawl" Lawrence Pratchett, DeMontfort University, United Kingdom, "Building or Bridging Social Capital? Innovations in British Local Democracy" 1999: Dan Felsenthal, University of Haifa, Israel "The Measurement of A Priori Voting Power: Some Fundamental Issues" Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys, UMBC Economics "Professional Sports and Economic Development" Eric Hanushek, University of Rochester "The Economics of Educational Reform" Phoebe Liebig, University of Southern California "Intergovernmental Aspects of Policy for Older Adults" Robert Walker, Loughborough University, England "Workfare Comes to Britain: Thank You But No Thank You" Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland College Park "Rational Choice and Some of Its Alternatives"