Past Presentations to the Social Science Forums

Spring 2006:

Robert Embry, President, The Abell Foundation "Baltimore City Public Schools"

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"

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”

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?”

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

Dr. James Marten, Professor of History, Marquette University “Coming of Age in the Civil War South”

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”

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”

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?”