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January 21, 2004 through March 5, 2004
Speaker biographies
Ronald White
Dr. White is Professor of American Intellectual and Religious History at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He holds the Ph.D. from Princeton University and is the author of
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural published in 2002 by Simon and Schuster. More biographical information may be found at
this Lincoln Symposium page.
Jerald E. Podair
Dr. Podair is Associate Professor of History at Lawrence University. He will deliver a lecture and conduct a discussion entitled, "Back Door To Freedom: The Paradoxes of the Emancipation Proclamation."
Dr. Podair, an expert on American race relations, is teaching a course this winter entitled, "The American Civil War." He has also conducted an adult enrichment seminar entitled, "Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Icon." His book,
The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis was published in 2002 by Yale University Press. Dr. Podair has been at Lawrence since 1998. He holds degrees from New York University, Columbia University School of Law, and Princeton University.
Faith Barrett
Dr. Faith Barrett, Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence
University, will deliver a lecture entitled "Drums off the Phantom
Battlements: American Poets and the Civil War." Dr. Barrett's current
research includes a study of American poetry written in response to the
war; in this project, she focuses on the work of well-known poets like
Whitman and Melville, unpublished soldier poets, women writers who
respond to the war, the work of African American poets, and poetry which
appeared in newspapers and magazines during the war years. With
Cristanne Miller, she is also co-editing an anthology of Civil War
poetry which will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Dr. Barrett joined the faculty at Lawrence in the fall of 2003. She
earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at U.C. Berkeley and her
M.F.A.in Poetry from the University of Iowa. Her poetry chapbook,
Invisible Axis, was published by Etherdome Press in 2001.
