Faculty Colloquia

2007-08

Adrian Mulligan (Geography)
'I Breath, and Lo! The chattel becomes a man': the transformation of Frederick Douglass in the Emerald Isle 

Julian Bourg (History)
"Your Sexual Revolutin Is Not Ours": French Feminist "Moralism" and the Limits of Desire

Sue Ellen Henry (Education)
"Social Class as Liminal Position: Understanding Experiences of First Generation College Students"

Coralynn Davis (Women's & Gender Studies)
"Talking Tools, Suffering Servants, and Defecating Men: The Power of Storytelling and Subaltern Registers in Maithil Women's Tales"

2006-07

Michael Drexler (English)
"Hurricanes and Slave Revolts"

Michelle Johnson (Anthropology)
"Culture's Calling: Race, Gender, and Cell Phone Use Among Mandinga Immigrants in Portugal"

Mary DeCredico (Provost)
"The Diary from Dixie: Mary Chesnut and the Southern Confederacy"

Karline McLain (Religion)
"'Immortal' Heroines: Goddesses, Wives, and Warriors in Indian comics Books"

Christopher Boyatzis (Psychology)
"Women's Body Image and Eating Behavior: Does God Matter?"

2005-06

Gundolf Graml (German)
"Black Bodies on White Snow: Luis Trenker's Film The Prodigal Son as a Case Study for the (Re)Construction of Whiteness in Nazi-Germany"

Robin Jacobson (Political Science)
"To Organize or Demonize: Unions and the Politics of Immigration"

David Del Testa (History)
"From Concubinage to Indochinoise: Reading the Beaucarnot Diary for New Creole Identities in French Indochina"

Janice Mann (Art & Art History)
"Transforming Barbados into "Bimshire": the Building Projects of Bishop William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849)"

2004-05 

Bill Flack (Psychology)
"Unwanted Sex at Bucknell"

Nina Banks (Economics)
"Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: Economist First"

Tristan Riley (Sociology)
"The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Hip Hop"

Michael James (Political Science)
"The Normative Consequences of Identity Construction""

2003-04

Emek Ucarer (International Relations)
"Trafficking in Women and the European Union: Shifting Frames, Sifting Outcomes"

Glyne Griffith (English)
"The BBC Caribbean Voices Radio Program and the Development of Caribbean Literature"

Tish Crawford (English)
""You're Taking What?!": Teaching Race and Gender Through Detective Fiction"

2002-03

Sonia Kruks (Women's and Gender Studies)
"Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Privilege"

Elizabeth Crespo (Sociology)
"Feminist Activism in Puerto Rico"

2001-02

John Peeler (Political Science)
"Citizenship and Difference: Indigenous Politics in Guatemala and the Central Andes"

Renee Gosson (French and Francophone Studies)
"Landscape and Memory: Ecological, Cultural, and Racial Effects of French Assimilation in the French West Indies"

Linden Lewis (Sociology)
"Engendering Democracy in the Caribbean"