Academic Year 2020 – 2021
October 23 (Friday), 1pm: Eranda Jayawickreme (Psychology, Wake Forest University)
“Examining Post-Traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Does Experiencing Major Life Events Impact Processes of Eudaimonic Well-Being Change?”
November 19 (Thursday), 5pm: Betina Cutaia Wilkinson (Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University)
“Striving for the Impossible? Black and Latinx Educational Experiences During a Pandemic” (co-authored with Dani Parker-Moore)
December 3 (Thursday), 4pm: William Mosley (Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University)
Introduction to Tenderness: The Work of Black Queer Expression
March 25 (Thursday), 5pm: Lucas Johnston (Study of Religions, Wake Forest University)
“B-Side Spirituality: An Empathetic Theory of Religion and Ethnographic Data About Spiritual (but not Religious) Belonging”
April 8 (Thursday), 4pm: James Morone (Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University)
“Legitimacy Amidst Displacement”
Academic Year 2019 – 2020
October 3: Mark Peterson (Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Back to the Future: Sustainability in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics”
October 24: Miles Silman (Biology, Wake Forest University)
“Illegal and Informal Economies, Gold Mining, Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples, and Conservation: Managing People on the Amazonian Frontier”
November 14: Mark Curtis (Economics, Wake Forest University)
“Understanding Industrial Energy Efficiency: The Role of Prices, Management and Onsite Generation”
February 6: Peter Andreas (International Studies and Political Science, Brown University)
“The Escalation of Border Policing”
Academic Year 2018 – 2019
October 18
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui (African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University)
“An Empire of Morals: Or the Decolonization of the Cosmopolitan Imaginary”
January 24
Joseph Witt (Philosophy and Religion, Mississippi State University)
“Religion and Resilience: Transcultural Ecological Knowledge among Vietnamese-American Shrimpers on the U.S. Gulf Coast”
March 28
Michael Lamb (Politics, Ethics, and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University)
“Wendell Berry’s Difficult Hope”
April 11
David Phillips (Interdisciplinary Humanities, Wake Forest University)
“Coastal Resilience in New York City: Whose Narrative?”
Academic Year 2017-2018
September 25
Steve Hitlin (Sociology, University of Iowa)
“Moral Boundaries Across Societies”
November 16
Christina Soriano (Theater and Dance, Wake Forest University) and Christina Hugenschmidt (Wake Forest School of Medicine)
February 1
Andrew Rodekohr (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wake Forest University)
“Visualizing Multitudes: The Crowd as a Mass Media in Cultural Revolution Propaganda Art”
March 1
Angus Burgin (History, Johns Hopkins University)
“The Neoliberal Turn”
April 5
Paul Erickson (History, Wesleyan University)
“An Empire of ‘Growth and Nurture’: Ecology, Documentary Film, and Development in Britain’s Empire Marketing Board, 1926-1933”
Academic Year 2016-2017
September 15
“Negotiating Gender through Craft Beer Consumption.” Nate Chapman, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Arkansas Tech University, and J. Slade Lellock, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech University.
October 6
“Naturalistic Turn in Political Theory: John Rawls and Wittgenstein’s ‘Forms of Life’.” Andrius Galisanka, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University.
February 23
“Sugar Diabetes: Medical Entitlement and Civil Rights in America.” Richard Mizelle, Department of History, University of Houston.
March 23
“Happiness and Tragedy: The Carnaval in Corrientes during the Last Military Dictatorship, 1976-1982.” Sebastian Carassai, Department of History, University of Buenos Aires.
Academic Year 2015-2016
September 17
“‘Parliamentary Absolutism’ or ‘Command Democracy’ or “Leader Democracy’ in Weimar Germany: What Does ‘Democracy’ Mean?” Michael Hughes, Professor of History, Wake Forest University.
November 5
“Gathering Medicines in the Mountains of China: Love of Plants and Place.” Judith Farquhar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago.
December 2
“The Politics of Health at the Early Medici Court.” Sharon Strocchia, Professor of History, Emory University.
February 4
“The Islamic State: Ethnic Cleansing and Nation-building in the Middle East.” Joshua Landis, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma, and President of the Syrian Studies Association.
February 25
“The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Hearts.” Martin Berger, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz.
March 21
“Not Gay: The Homosexual Ingredient in the Making of Straight White Men.” Jane Ward, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside.
March 28
“Max Weber on Rationalization, Disenchantment, and Charisma.” Julian Young, Kenan Professor of Humanities, Wake Forest University.
Academic Year 2014-2015
September 18
“Preemptive Emotion Work among Families of Seriously Ill Children.” Amanda Gengler, Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University.
October 30
“Immigrants and Other Foreigners in the United States: A History of Immigration and Citizenship Law.” Kanul Parker, University of Miami School of Law.
November 20
“Buying Gay: Physique Magazines, Censorship, and the Rise of the Gay Movement.” David Johnson, History Department, University of South Florida.
December 4
“‘That Sounds Like A Proposition to Me’: Men’s Interpretation of Women’s Identity Work.” Matthew Ezzell, Department of Sociology, James Madison University.
April 23
“Creativity and Capital: Herbert Hall, George Barton and Early Occupational Therapy Workshops, 1905-1923.” Sasha Mullally, Department of History, University of New Brunswick.
April 24
“Economic Inequality: The Consequences of Thomas Piketty.” John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam. This lecture is being given in honor of Michael Lawlor, Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, who is one of the co-founders of the Social Science Research Seminar.
Academic Year 2013-2014
September 19
“Historic Houses of Worship in Peril: Religious Building and American Culture.” Thomas Frank, University Professor in the Departments of History and Religion, Wake Forest University.
October 3
“Occupational Mobility and Racial Inequality in the Evolving Public Sector.” George Wilson, Department of Sociology, University of Miami.
January 30
“Encountering Transnational Families and Creating Value in an Italian Fast-Fashion District.” Elizabeth Krause, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
February 21
“‘Broken Fragments of the Primitive Life’: Race and Dynamic Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeth Hospital, 1900-1940.” Martin Summers, Department of History and African & African Diaspora Studies, Boston College.
March 6
“Inventing the ‘Creative City’: Cultural Capital and the Making of North Carolina’s Research Triangle, 1953-1965.” Alex Sayf Cummings, Department of History, Georgia State University.
March 27
“Policing Human Trafficking 19th Century Style: Lessons from the Era of the Slave Trade Ban.” Cynthia Hahamovitch, Department of History, The College of William & Mary.
April 24
“Women’s Equality and the National Education Association’s Interest in a U.S. Department of Education, 1910-1930.” Michael Pisapia, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University
Academic Year 2012-2013
September 13
“Communicating a New Consciousness: Home Birth in Modern America.” Wendy Kline, Department of History, University of Cincinnati.
October 4
“Manipulating Capital: Former Global Factory Workers Negotiating New Identities in Sri Lanka’s Villages.” Sandya Hewamanne, Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University.
November 30
“Bringing Sociology to the Table: A Case for A Sociological Approach to the ‘Obesity Epidemic’.” Sara Bowen, Department of Sociology and Director of Voices in Action: The Families, Food and Health Project, North Carolina State University
January 24
“We Were Young Men with Warm Hearts: Relationships in the Continental Army.” Jake Ruddiman, Department of History, Wake Forest University.
February 28
“Making the Immobile Mobile: Land, Markets, and the Problem of Value.” This paper deals with the 19th Century Paris real estate market. Alexia Yates, History and Economics at Harvard University.
March 28
“Promoting Change in U.S. Policy toward Cuba: A Case Study from a Non-profit Advocacy Group.” Frick Curry, Center for International Policy, Washington, D.C.
April 25
“Scandal and the Medieval Church.” Dyan Elliott, Department of History, Northwestern University.
Academic Year 2011-2012
September 9
“Chinese Consumer Culture under Communism.” Karl Gerth, University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Fellow and Tutor, Oxford University.
September 23
“American Marriage? Tracking the Broomstick Wedding from 1800-2010.” Tyler D. Parry, History Department, University of South Carolina.
October 13
“Saving the Environment in Cameroon: Problems and Prospects of Domestic and International NGOS.” William Markham, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
December 1
“Super Dads.” Gayle Kaufman, Department of Sociology, Davidson College.
February 16
“Dancing in the Street? Reframing Arts and Culture for the ‘New’ Downtown.” Elizabeth Strom, Department of Geography, University of South Florida.
March 30
“The Impact of Gender, Education and Culture on the Career Motivations of Entrepreneurs: The Case of Nicaragua.” Elizabeth Gatewood, Ajay Patel, and Jeanne Simonelli, Wake Forest University.
April 12
“Rustic Recreation: Seeking health in the North Woods, 1880-1945.” Lucinda McCray, Department of History, Appalachian State University.
Academic Year 2010-2011
September 20
“Richard Wagner on the Way We are Now.” Julian Young, Keenan Professor of Humanities, Wake Forest University
October 25
“Serengeti Shall Not Die: Bernhard Grzimek and the Making of a Tourist Landscape in East Africa.” Thomas Lekan, Department of History, University of South Carolina.
November 15
“Mistress of Her Own Soul?: Child Custody, Red-baiting, and the Strange Case of Mrs. Eaton.” Kristin Celello, Assistant Professor of History, Queens College, City University of New York.
March 21
“Art and Philosophy: A Natural Affinity.” Andrew Nixon, Department of Art, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
April 8
“Globalization, Higher Education, the Labor Market and Inequality.” Antonia Kupfer, Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
April 25
“Moments of Truth: Lutherans, Translation, and the Problem of Verity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.” David Samuels, Department of Music, New York University.
Academic Year 2009-2010
August 31
“In the Shadow of the Great War: Monsters, Mutilation, and Modern Art.” David Lubin, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
October 1
“Health Reform: The Fiscal Challenge Beyond 2009.” Barry Clendinin, Health Economist, George Mason University
November 2
“Living Bereavements.” Eileen Gillooly, Department of English, Columbia University
November 16
Richard Pitt, Jr., Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
February 15
“‘I Wish My Head and Insides Would Begin to get Straight. I Don’t Recognize Myself at All:’ Female Subjectivity, Marriage and American Modernity.” Magaret Lowe, Department of History, Bridgewater State College
March 1
“Dead As Dirt: An Environmental History of the Dead Body.” Ellen Stroud, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
March 22
“It’s Been a Long Time Coming: U.S. Data on Workers Matched to their Employing Firms.” Charles Tolbert II, Department of Sociology, Baylor University
April 5
“Reason, Emotion, Pressure, Violence: Modes of Demonstration as Conceptions of Political Citizenship in 1960s West Germany.” Michael Hughes, Department of History, Wake Forest University
April 19
“Recessions: Causes and Lessons.” Robert Hetzel, Senior Economist and Research Advisor, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Academic Year 2008-2009
September 22
“Border Chasm: International Boundary Parks and Mexican Conservation 1935 – 1945.” Emily Walkild, History Department, Wake Forest University
October 15
John Duca, Senior Economist and Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
October 27
“Paying to Play? Campaign Money and Advancement in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Eric Heberlig, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina @ Charlotte
November 17
“Rethinking Democracy, Authoritarianism and Economic Performance.” William Keech, Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Duke University
January 26
“Health Issues and Medical Care in the Ohio Penitientiary, 1833, 1907.” Nancy E. Taterek, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ohio State University.
March 2
“Enduring Contradictions of the Neoliberal Sate in Chile: Political Ecology and Cultural History ‘Written in the Margins’.” William Alexander, Anthropology Department, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
April 6
“Proust’s Affair: Fantasies and Fictions of the Dreyfus Case.” Michael G. Wood, Department of Enlgish and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
April 20
“Nostalgia for the Future: Tradition and Modernism in German Art, 1933-1945.” Gregory Maertz, English Department, Saint John’s University
Academic Year 2007-2008
September 17
“The Politics of Exile” Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University
October 1
“The Economics of Colorism: Does Skin Shade Matter” William A. Darrity, Jr., Terry Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
October 29
“Little Eva’s Last Breath: Romanticizing Southern Childhood Death” Craig T. Friend, Department of History and Director of Public History, North Carolina State University
November 26
“Landscapes of Captivity: Power nad the Definition of Work, Race, and Space” Thomas Rogers, Africana Studies Department/Program of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
March 3
“Medicine, Masculinity, and the Disappearance of Male Menopause in the 1950s.” Elizabeth Watkins, Associate Professor, Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, History of Health Sciences Program, University of California @ San Francisco
April 14
“The Agenda of Ambiguity in Expressive Culture.”David Samuels, Anthropology Department, University of Massachuesetts @ Amherst
April 21
“The Trial of Socrates.” Bryan McCammon, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
Academic Year 2006-2007
September 14
“The Political Mass Strike in Imperial Germany: Asserting Legitimate Political Agency in an Illegitimate System”
Michael Hughes, Professsor of History, Wake Forest University
September 28
“Ancient and Recent Positive Selection Transformed Opioid cis-Regulation in Humans”
Gregory A. Wray, Duke Institute for Genome Science and Policy
November 21
“Transition: Local Japan and Global Contexts, 1764-1868”
Robert Hellyer, Department of History, Wake Forest University
November 30
“‘I Dreamed I Went to Work’: Moving Workers and Capital in the Mid-Twentieth Century Brassier Industry”
Melanie Schell-Weiss, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
February 8
“Combatants on a Strategic Battlefield: An Analysis of Capital-Labor Conflicts and the OSHA Standard-Setting Process”
Anna Wahl, Department of Sociology, WFU
February 26 MONDAY
“Consumer Inequalities and Regime Legitimacy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia”
Jane Zavisca, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona
March 22
“To Serve and Protect: Doll-Boys and Blackmail in Imperial Berlin”
Robert Beachy, Department of History, Goucher College
April 16
“Is the Jewish Diaspora Unique? Reflections on the Diaspora’s Current Situation”
Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
April 30
Daniel Lefkowitz, Department of Linguistics, University of Virginia
Academic Year 2005-2006
September 8
“‘We Have Whipped Out Sherman and the Helperites’: Hinton Rowan Helper, the Speakership Contest, and the Origins of the American Civil War”
David Brown, Department of History, Sheffield University, England
September 29
“Gender Ideology and Economic Policy in the Making of the Welfare State: Multiple Social Democratic Paths to Policy Development”
Kerstin Sorenson, Department of Political Science, Elon University
October 13
“Class History: Officials of the Venetian State, 1380-1420”
Monique O’Connell, Department of History, Wake Forest University
November 3
“Rethinking Occupational Forms: The Case of Website Prodcution Work”
Amanda Damarin, Sociology, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
November 17
“The Loss of Property Rights and the Collapse of Zimbabwe”
Craig Richardson, Department of Economics, Salem College
April 20
“Micro Politics and Conflicts in Multinational Corporations: Current Debates, Re-framing, and Contributions of this Special Issue.” Mike Geppert, School of Business Management, Queen Mary, University of London
Academic Year 2004-2005
September 9
“Entreprenuership, Industrial Policy and Clusters: The Growth of the North Carolina Wine Industry”
Ian Taplin, Professor of Sociology, and Saylor Breckenridge, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
October 21
“Fighting Fire with Fire: African American Intellectuals and Hereditarian Thinking, 1890-1942.” Gregg Dorr, Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama
November 11
“Diversity in the Power Elite.” Richard Zweigenhaft, Dana Professor of Psychology and Director of Social Science Division, Guilford College
November 18
“Documenting Desegregation: EEO-1 Estimates of US Establishment Sex and Ethnic Segregation, 1966-2000.” Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Sociology Department, North Carolina State University
January 20
“China’s Labor Market”
Dennis Tao Yang, Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
February 17
“Constitutional Medicine: Building Democracy After Conflict”
Andrew Reynolds, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 3
“Economic Segregation and Homicide”
David Eitle, Department of Sociology, Florida International University
April 7
“Historians and Higher Education”
John R. Thelin, Department of History, Indiana University
April 21
“Oil Wars: The Role of Oil in the U.S.-Mideast Conflicts”
Stephen Pelletiere, Former Chief Iraq Desk Analyst at the CIA and Professor Emeritus at the Army War College
Academic Year 2003-2004
September 18
“Murdering Mothers and Physicians’ Responses: Neonaticide in Rhode Island, 1838 to 1938”
Simone M. Caron, Department of History, Wake Forest University
October 23
“From Commendation to Condemnation: The Blurring of a Hegemonic White Identity”
Jenny Irons, Department of Sociology, Hamilton College
November 7
“The Concept of Ethnic Nationality and its Role in Pan-Asianism in Imperial Japan”
Kevin Doak, Department of History, Georgetown University
November 13
“Beyond Mastery: The Future of Conrad’s Beginnings”
Geoffrey Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park
December 8
“The Pros and Cons of Conversions of Not-for-Profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans to For-Profit Status”
Bradley Strunk, Center for Health Policy Change, Washington, D.C.
February 12
“A Return to Isolationism and Unilaterilism: Pre- and Post-September 11”
Ole R. Holsti, George V. Allen Professor of Political Science, Duke University
March 25
“Untouchable Healing: An Ayurvedic Doctor from Nepal Suffers His Country’s Ills.”
Mary Cameron, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women’s Studies Center, Florida Atlantic University
April 1
“Autobiography and the History of Economics”
Roy Weintraub, Department of Economics, Duke University
April 22
“A Militant Liberalism: Anti-Communism and the African American Intelligentsia, 1939-1955”
Daniel Aldridge, Department of History, Davidson College
Academic Year 2002-2003
September 5
“Before NASCAR: The Corporate and Civic Promotion of Automobile Racing in the American South, 1903-1927”
Randal Hall, Department of History, Wake Forest University
For copies of this paper, please see the final version published in the Journal of Social History LXVII (August 2002): 629-668
September 19
“Environmental Stressors: The Mental Health Impacts of Living Near Industrial Activity”
Liam Downey, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University
October 3
Gone for Good: Tales of University Life after the Golden Age
Stuart Rojstaczer, Department of Geology, Environment and Engineering, and Director, Center for Hydrologic Science, Duke University
October 24
“Using Networks toward Global Labor Standards? Organizing Social Responsibility in Global Production Chains”
Michael Fichter, Department of Political Science, Free University of Berlin
November 21
“Why Do Costs Keep Rising at Selective Private Colleges and Universities?”
Ronald Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, and Director Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University
January 23
“Corporate Governance Problems in Transition Economies”
Verica Babic, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
February 6
“From Drugs to Guerrillas? US Policy Toward Columbia”
Russell Crandall, Department of Political Science, Davidson College
February 27
“Towards a Political Sociology of Afro-American Intellectuals: A Case of Dual Marginalities”
Jerry Watts, Department of Sociology, Trinity College
April 3
“Marketing Medicine and Constructing Consumer Culture in China, 1880-1956”
Sherman Gilbert Cochran, Department of History, Cornell University
May 7
“Lucia: Testimonies of a Drug Dealer’s Woman”
Robert Gay, Department of Sociology, Connecticut College
Academic Year 2001-2002
September 14
Martin Lewis and Karen Wiger, Departments of History and Geography, Duke University
October 11
“Expo Fascism? Architecture, Atavism, Economics”
Angus Lockyer, Department of History, Wake Forest University
October 25
“Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector”
Chris Ruhm, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
November 8
Robert Weinburger, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
November 29
Jurg Steiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 4
“On the Need to be Different: Military Uniqueness & Civil-Military Relations in Modern Society–The Case of the British Armed Services”
Christopher Dandeker, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
March 21
“Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power”
Lilian R. Furst, Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
February 18
“When the Personal Becomes Political: The Case of Obesity”
Rogan Kersh, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University
February 7
“Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, & Race in a Modern American City”
Heather Thompson, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Academic Year 2000-2001
November 30
“Is Mexico Sewing Up Development?” Inter-firm networks and regional integration in the North American apparel industry”
Jenn Blair, Department of Sociology, Duke University
November 8
“Immigrant Lives at the Intersection of Family, Capital, and the State”
David Griffith, Department of Anthropology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources, East Carolina University
October 27
“Understanding the New Economy Debate: The Endgame”
Patrick Norton, Sarkisian Professor of Business Economics, Director, The New Economy Institute, Bryant College
September 28
“Choice is a Moving Target,” from Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare (forthcoming)
Rickie Solinger, feminist scholar and independent historian.
April 26
“Trajanic Responses to Augustan Diplomacy: The Denigration of Diplomatic Hostages in the Early Second Century, CE”
Joel Allen, Department of History and Classics, Ohio University
April 12
“Social Resourcefulness: its relationship to social support and wellbeing among caregivers of dementia victims”
Stephen R. Rapp, Department of Psychaitry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
February 8
“What Political Space is Left in Tony Blair’s Britain?”
Joel Krieger, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
January 25
“Urban Demographic Stagnation in Early Modern South Germany”
Terence McIntosh, Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor McIntosh has since published the paper he gave and asks that anyone interested in it consult the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (2001): 581-612
Academic Year 1999-2000
September 8
“A Reexamination of the American State Constitutional Tradition”
John Dinan, Politics Department, Wake Forest University
October 1
“Behavioral Choice Treatment Promotes Continuing Weight Loss: Preliminary Results of a Cognitive Behavioral Decision Based Treatment for Obesity”
Tracy Sbrocco, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services Universtiy of the Health Sciences
October 25
“Why Corruption is a Crucial Precondition for the Creation of Markets and Constitutional Government: The Case of Russia”
Professor Jerry Hough, Department of Political Science, Duke University.
October 29
“A ‘Switch in Time’ Beyond the Nine: Civil Liberties and the ‘Constitutional Revolution’ of the 1930s”
John Wertheimer, Department of History, Davidson College
December 1
“Between God and the Market: The Religious Roots of the American Economic Association”
Bradley W. Bateman, Department of Economics, Grinnell College
April 25
“From the Bird’s Eye View: The Aerial Making of Sprawl”
Christopher Sellers, History Department, State University of New York, National Humanities Center
February 17
“Who Should Pay? Redistributing War’s Burdens in (West) Germany”
Michael Hughes, History Department, Wake Forest University
March 2
“Ethnic Diversity and Economic Growth: the Search for Stability in Benin”
Sylvain Boko, Economics Department, Wake Forest University
March 23
“‘Unlimited Mothering’: Rooming-In and Postwar Culture”
Elizabeth Temkin, Nurse-midwife and historian, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut
March 30
“New Class Forces, Old Class Realities”
David Coates, Politics Department, Wake Forest University
May 2
David Altman, Wake Forest University Medical School
Academic Year 1998-1999
September 4
“Learning to do Low-Cost Actice Learning”
Greg Lilly, Douglas Redington and Thomas Tiemann
Department of Economics, Elon College
September 28
“Enterprise and Culture: Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914,” Andrew Godley, Department of Economics, University of Reading (UK)
September 30
Roundtable Discussion of the Elections in Germany, Helga Welsh, Politics Department, Wake Forest University. Professor Welsh has been invited by the German government to spend a week in Germany to analyze the elections. She will share her insights with the seminar.
October 16
“Science, Technology and Democracy,”
Daniel Kleinman, Georgia Tech
November 6
“The Cashless Society (Russia): An Unintended Result,” Marshall Goldman, Harvard University–This seminar alone will be held at 2:00 p.m. in Worrell 1308 (Law School)
November 13
“The Role of Dialogue in European Approaches to Vocational Training,” Jonathan Winterton, Department of Employment Research, Napier University Business School, Edinburgh, Scotland
January 28
“Party System Continuity and Transformation in Chile’s ‘Model’ Transition”
Peter Siavelis, Department of Politics, Wake Forest University
February 11
“With all the Means that Prudence Would Suggest: ‘Procedural Culture’ and the Writings of Cultural Histories of Power in Nineteenth-Century MesoAmerica”
John M. Watanabe, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
March 18
“Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime’s Worth of Difference?”
Frank Sloan, Economics Department, Duke University
April 15
“A Tudor Deborah? The Coronation of Elizabeth I and the Problem of Female Rule”
Dale Hoak, History Department, The College of William and Mary
April 29
“Monetary Policy in a Democratice Society”
John Wood, Economics Department, Wake Forest University