Warriors in Peace: White and Black Union Veterans and the Fight for Equality in Post-Civil War America
March 22 | 6:30 p.m.
Stephen A. Goldman, M.D., LFACLP, DLFAPA
Life Fellow of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
When the Civil War ended, the United States faced a Reconstruction that would test its resolve in dealing with race, equality, and sectionalism. With Abraham Lincoln gone, others would have to provide vital leadership for “the unfinished work” that lay ahead. Coming home irrevocably changed by all they had seen, done, endured and accomplished, a sizable proportion of Union servicemen had been politically radicalized. More than the average civilian, they realized that what remained to be done promised to be as bitter, divisive, and perilous as the war itself, if not more so. This presentation will show how white and black Northern veterans sustained their dedication to the causes for which they had battled and bled, and continued the struggle for freedom and opportunity for every American in the decades after the Civil War. In the same vein, how they created the model of social activism based on military service that American citizen soldiers, sailors, and marines have emulated in modern times, and the enduring power of veterans’ warrior identity, will also be discussed.
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Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
February 22 | 6:30 p.m.
Roy Richard Grinker
Grinker is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was born and raised in Chicago where his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father worked as psychoanalysts. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in social anthropology at Harvard University in 1989. He is the author of Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness, Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War, and Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Africa: Culture, History, and Representation and Companion to the Anthropology of Africa. Grinker was a 2008 recipient of the National Alliance on Mental Illness KEN award for “outstanding contribution to the understanding of mental illness” and the 2010 recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in the Media award for “communication of anthropology to the general public through the media.”
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Insight into the 2021 Nobel Prizes
January 24 | 6:30 p.m.
The Nobel Prize
A panel of five Shepherd professors will discuss the importance of this year’s Nobel Laureates’ works and the nature of the prize in that discipline.
Dr. Conor Sipe, Physiology or Medicine: Discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch
Dr. Sipe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. Dr. Sipe received his Bachelor and Master of Science from the College of William and Mary and his Ph.D. from University of Virginia.
Dr. James Pate, Literature: Effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee
Dr. Pate is Assistant Professor of English at Shepherd University. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Pate attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received his M.F.A. and his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in English from the University of Memphis. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Spoon River Poetry Review and has been a fellow for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from 2015-2018. He has published numerous books, fiction and poetry.
Dr. Kathleen Reid, Economics: Labor economics and analysis of causal relationships
Dr. Reid is Professor of Economics, Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance, and Interim Dean of the College of Business. Professor Reid received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Plattsburg and her Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. She has been a faculty member at Shepherd University since August 1983 teaching courses in Business Statistics, Quantitative Methods, Microeconomic Theory, Urban Economics, and Public Finance. Her research interests are in the areas of economic literacy and applied microeconomic theory. As Associate Dean, Professor Reid guided the College of Business through a successful reaffirmation of accreditation with the college’s accrediting body, IACBE, during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Dr. Haley Albright, Chemistry: Development of asymmetric organocatalysis
Dr. Albright is Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Albright received her Bachelor of Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Prior to coming to Shepherd, Dr. Albright was a Leo Lecturer at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Sytil Murphy, Physics: Physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Dr. Murphy is Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Environmental and Physical Sciences. Dr. Murphy received her Bachelor of Science from Monmouth College, her Master of Science and Ph.D. from Montana State University. Her research was in optics. She and her colleague started the Seeding Your Future initiative which introduces middle school girls to STEM. She has also volunteered for FIRST Lego League robotics at Shepherd University as well as at Montana State University.
Dr. Samuel Greene, Peace: Safeguarding freedom of expression, a precondition for democracy and lasting peace
Dr. Greene is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies and Director of Study Abroad at Shepherd University. Previously, he was Associate Professor at National Defense College of the United Arab Emirates and Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Dr. Greene received his Bachelor of Arts from George Fox University, his Master of Philosophy from University of Cambridge, and his Ph.D. from Catholic University of America.