DIVISION II FACULTY LUNCHEON
PAST SEMINARS
Academic Year 2024-2025
Fall-2024
September 12: Khalil Johnson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Education Studies
September 26: Nicole Stanton, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
October 31: Visiting Government Professor
November 14: Khalilah Brown-Dean, Executive Director and University Professor of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, "Protesting Vulnerability: Polarization and Pandemic Politics"
Academic Year 2023-2024
Spring-2024
February 1: Lindsay Dolan, Assistant Professor of Government, "The Role of Individuals in Global Governance" in PAC 101
February 22: Rachael Barlow, Associate Director of Assessment, with Kevin Butler, Rachel Schnepper and Andrew White, "Generative AI in High Education" in PAC 100
February 29: Sanford Shieh, Professor of Philosophy, "The Hylomorphic Alien" in PAC 101
March 28: Alisha Butler, Assistant Professor of Education Studies, "They pretend they're giving you power": Challenges to Democratic Engagement in Education Policy in Washington, DC in PAC 101
April 4: Doug Foyle, Associate Professor and Chair of Government Department, " An Inward Turn?: Public Opinion, Partisanship, and American Foreign Policy" in PAC 101
April 8: Elaine Gan, Assistant Professor of Science in Society and Assistant Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, "When Plants Become Machines" in PAC 101, 12:15-1:10 PM
April 18: Xiaoxue Zhao, Assistant Professor of Economics, "Fiscal Capacity and Capital Misallocation: the Economic Costs of Tax Evasion" in PAC 101
Fall-2023
September 21: Nicole Stanton, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, "A Talk with the Provost"
October 5: George Bajalia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Intersections between Anthropology, Artistic Practice, Ethnography, and Curation: A New Lab Initiative."
October 12: Zaira Simone-Thompson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, "Holding Many Mirrors: The Multiplicity of Indo and Afro-Caribbean Articulations of Repair"
October 26: Joe Siry, Professor of Art History, and Phil Resor, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Professor, Educations Studies, "Faculty Governance Now: Current Issues and Prospects"
November 9: Maryam Gooyabadi, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Quantitative Analysis, "Revolutionizing Firearm Insights: Unearthing Novel Data Perspectives across Patents, Deaths, Media, Manufacturing and More"
Academic Year 2022-2023
Spring-2023
February 9: Elise Springer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, "Sustainability - Too Much and Not Enough"
March 2: Abigail Hornstein, Professor of Economics, "Organizations in Society"
March 9: Tanner Walker, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, "Hybridization, Subjugation, and Spectacle: The 'Human' and the 'Animal' in Ancient Depictions of Conquest”, Boger Hall 115
April 13: Carol Scully, Senior Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Grants and Betsy McCormick, Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Grants, and Kristin Magendantz, Associate Director of Corporate, Foundation and Government Grants, "Grants Discussion"
April 27: David, Baird, Vice President for Information Technology, "Updates from IT"
Fall-2022
September 15: Nicole Stanton, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Professor of Dance
September 29: Gary Shaw, Chair of Faculty, Professor of History
October 13: Francis Starr, IDEAS proposal
October 27: Daniel McGloin, Academic Development and Planning Manager, Center for Prison Education
Academic Year 2021-2022
Spring Semester - 2022
February 10: The Course Materials Project, Cori Anderson, Rachael Barlow, Jeffrey Goetz, Jill Livingston, Alyssa Marinaccio, Camillia Zamboni
February 24: "Returning to Ourselves: The Dialectual Temporality of Indigenous Futurism", Lou Cornum, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies
March 7: "Germany's New Coalition Government", Sarah Wiliarty, Associate Professor of Government
April 7: "The Ethonographic Backstage of Educational Organizing", Roseann Liu, Assistant Professor of Education Studies Studies
April 21: Daniel McGloin, Academic Developer and Planning Manager, Center for Prison Education
Fall Semester - 2021
September 23: Conversation with Nicole Stanton, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Professor of Dance
October 7: Conversation with the Chair of Faculty, Ishita Mukerji
October 21: "A Tale of Two Utopias: Bezos and Musk in Outer Space", Mary Jane Rubenstein, Professor Religion
November 11: "The Story of Coffee: Antislavery, Temperance, and Industrial Capitalism in the Guilded Age", Roberto Saba, Assistant Professor in American Studies
Academic Year 2020-2021
Spring Semester - 2021
All seminars were held via Zoom.
March 3: “Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic from WWII" Gillian Brunet, Assistant Professor of Economics
March 18: "The Data Will Not Save Us: Afropessimism in the COVID-19 Archives” Anthony Hatch, Associate Professor, Science and Society Program
April 8: “The Impact of the ACA on Disparities in Hospital Care with Discussion of the Implications for Disparities in COVID Care”, Damien Sheehan-Connor, Associate Professor of Economics
April 22: “Restorative Parody from Devils to Hamilton: How Dostoevsky Pioneered a Key Postmodern Strategy,” Susanne Fusso, Marcus L. Taft Professor of Modern Languages, Professor of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Academic Year 2019-20
September 12, 2019
"Hong Kong 2019: Tremors Shake a Global Political Fault Line", presented by Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies
October 10, 2019
Conversation with Interim Provost, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Rob Rosenthal
October 24, 2019
Conversation with the Chair of the Faculty, Sean McCann, Professor of English
November 14, 2019
“Declining Outmigration and Local Labor Markets”, presented by Melanie Khamis, Associate Professor of Economics
February 13, 2020
Joseph Slaughter, Chamberlain Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, “Christian Communal Capitalism: Faith and Factories of the Early Nineteenth-Century Harmony Society"
February 27: Joseph Weiss, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, “Not Built to Last: The Paradoxical Temporalities of Military Occupation on Indigenous Territory"
Academic Year 2018 - 2019
September 7, 2018
Conversation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty. Gil Skillman, Professor of Economics, and Sean McCann, Professor of English
October 5, 2018
Representing Shamanism: Thinking about the Soviet Union as a Secular State. Justine Quijada, Assistant Professor of Religion
October 12, 2018
Presenting your Research to the Broader Public. Naomi Schalit, Politics and Society editor, The Conversation
October 26, 2018
America's Lure: Gayatari Spivak and the Transnational Politics of the Mid-century U.S. University. Abigail Boggs, Assistant Professor of Sociology
November 9, 2018
The 2018 Midterm Elections: Roundtable Discussion with Logan Dancey, Assistant Professor of Government, Erika Franklin Fowler, Associate Professor of Government, and Justin Peck, Assistant Professor of Government
November 30, 2018
Industrial Policy and the Development of Labor Movement in South Korea Under Authoritarian Rule. Joan Cho, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
February 1, 2019
Conversation with the Provost and Andrews Professor of Economics, Joyce Jacobsen
February 8, 2019
Conversation with the Librarian, Andrew White, Caleb T. Winchester University Librarian
February 22, 2019
Buddhism on the Border: The Formation of Religious Tradition in the Himalayan Frontier,
Andrew Quintman, Associate Professor of Religion
March 1, 2019
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America, Anthony Hatch,
Associate Professor of Science in Society -12:00-1:00 PM, PAC 422
April 12, 2019
Stimulus on the Home Front: World War II and the US Economy. Gillian Brunet,
Assistant Professor of Economics -12:00-1:00 PM, PAC 422
April 26, 2019
The Labor Board Boys: Tackling American Conflicts for Fifty Years. Ron Schatz,
Professor of History - 12:00-1:00 PM, PAC 422
Academic Year 2017 - 2018
September 7, 2017
Conversation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty, Janice R. Naegele, Professor of Biology and Gil Skillman, Professor of Economics
September 28, 2017
Guns in America, Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History
October 19, 2017
Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918, Justin Peck, Assistant Professor of Government
November 9, 2017
Good Governance Populism in India Today: Troubling an Anti-establishment "Us," Anu Sharma, Associate Professor of Anthropology
December 7, 2017
Afghanistan 2017-2020: Prospects for Policy and Strategy, Robert M. Cassidy, Retired Military Officer Teaching Fellow
February 2, 2018
Conversation with the President and Provost, Michael Roth and Joyce Jacobsen
February 16, 2018
Group Disucssion: Programming in the New Public Affairs Center plus a Communications Update with Key Nuttall, Chief Communication Officer
April 6, 2018
Regulating Boards in Sweden with Reda Moursli, Assistant Professor of Economics
April 20, 2018
Zonker, I See That You Feel That Way: Political Cartoon Use of Emotion in Provoking and Preempting Islamophobia, with Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Religion
Academic Year 2016 - 2017
September 8, 2016
Conversation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty, Brian A. Stewart, Professor of Physics, and Janice R. Naegele, Professor of Biology.
September 13, 2016
Conversation with the President, Michael Roth.
October 6, 2016
Racial Diversity and the Dynamics of Authoritarianism, Yamil Velez, Assistant Professor of Government.
October 20, 2016
To Fight or Not to Fight: Understanding Why Armed Islamist Groups Abandon Violent Tactics, Emy Matesan, Assistant Professor of Government.
November 3, 2016
I Like The Way You Move: Theorizing Black Fat Female Sexuality, Courtney J. Patterson-Faye, Assistant Professor of Sociology
December 1, 2016
Race, Gender, Citizenship: Rehabilitating Addicts and Criminal Justice Reform, Kerwin Kaye, Assistant Professor of Sociology
December 8, 2016
Studying Race in the 18th-Century German Academy, Demetrius L. Eudell, Professor of History
January 30, 2017 (Monday)
University Relations 101: Towards Successful Partnering with Faculty, Barbara-Jan Wilson, Vice President for University Relations
February 16, 2017
Cognitive Pluralism: Understanding the World Through Idealized Models, Steven Horst, Professor of Philosophy
February 23, 2017
Don’t Make Me Laugh: A Generational Analysis of American Jewish identity Formation and Humor, Jennifer Caplan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
April 6, 2017
Problem Solver or 'Evil Genius'?: Thomas Jesse Jones & The Problem of Indian Administration, Khalil Johnson, Assistant Professor of African American Studies
April 27, 2017
Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual, Cecilia Miller, Professor of History
Academic Year 2015 - 2016
January 28, 2016
Conversation with the Provost and Division II Dean, Joyce Jacobsen, Provost and Andrews Professor of Economics and Marc Eisner, Dean of the Social Sciences.
February 4, 2016
Conversation on Academic Computing, Jason Simms, Academic Computing Manager for the Social Sciences.
February 11, 2016
Megan Glick, Assistant Professor American Studies, Everything Except the Squeal: Porcine Hybridity in the Obesity 'Epidemic' and Xenotransplantation Research.
March 31, 2016
Melanie Khamis, Assistant Professor of Economics, Female Labor Market Outcomes and Mexican Migration
April 14, 2016
Sam Rosenfeld, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, When Bipartisanship Was the Problem: E.E. Schattschneider and the Doctrine of Responsible Party Government
April 28, 2016
Joel Pfister, Olin Professor of English, Theorizing Soft Capitalism: The Critical Work of Movies.
November 12, 2015
Joe Rouse, Hedding Professor of Moral Science, Social Practices and Normativity.
October 8, 2015
Logan Dancey, Assistant Professor of Government, It's Not Our Fault: Public Perceptions of Congressional Polarization.
September 24, 2015
Bruce Masters, John E. Andrus Professor of History, I Only Shoot the People I Know: Sectarianism and Modernity.
September 10, 2015
Donald Moon, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies, and Brian Stewart, Professor of Physics, Conversation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty.
Acpandemic Year 2014 - 2015
September 11, 2014
Ruth Striegel Weissman, Provost and Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences Joyce Jacobsen, Dean of Social Sciences and Director of Global Initiatives "Conversation with the Provost and Dean.”
September 25, 2014
Phillip B. Wagoner, Professor of Art History "Coin Hoards and Monetary History of South India, 1300-1600."
October 9, 2014
Chris Hogendorn, Associate Professor of Economics “Not Your Mother’s Internet: Mergers, Network Neutrality, and Cybersecurity.”
October 30, 2014
Sanford Shieh, Associate Professor of Philosophy “Picturing Logical Necessity.”
November 13, 2014
Justine Quijada, Assistant Professor of Religion and REES “An Inauguration for Etigelov: Multiple Genres of History in Buryatia.”
December 4, 2014
Michael B. Nelson, Assistant Professor of Government "African Participation in Global Governance."
January 29, 2015
Laura B. Grabel, Lauren B. Dachs Professor of Science and Society, J. Donald Moon, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies, "Conversation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Faculty."
February 12, 2015
Basak Kus, Assistant Professor of Sociology, "Financial Crisis and the Politics of Regulatory Reform."
February 26, 2015
Peter Rutland, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, "Petronation? Oil and National Identity in Russia."
March 26, 2015
Gary Shaw, Professor of History "Sharing Information and a Drink: Travel and Hospitality in Medieval England."
April 9, 2015
Laura Grappo, Assistant Professor of American Studies "Transgender, Transracial, Transabled: Transmutation of the Self and the Brave New World of Identity Politics."
April 23, 2015
Pao-Lin Tien, Assistant Professor of Economics "Policy Forecasting Shocks and the Taylor Rule."
Academic Year 2013 – 2014
September 3, 2013
Bruce Masters, Professor of History - “Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring?”
October 3, 2013
Ruth Striegel Weissman, Provost and Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences Conversation with the Provost."
October 17, 2013
Sarah E. Wiliarty, Associate Professor of Government "The German Elections of 2013: Observations from the Field."
October 24, 2013
Erik Grimmer-Solem, Associate Professor of History "Blind Spot on the Right: The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust and the Politics of Commemoration in Contemporary Germany."
November 7, 2013
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Religion "Why They Swallowed the Fly: Multiverse Cosmologies at the Limits of Modern Science."
November 21, 2013
Damien Sheehan-Connor, Assistant Professor of Economics "Public Policy and Motor Vehicle Safety: Tales of Intended and Unintended Consequences."
December 5, 2013
Steven W. Horst, Professor of Philosophy "Cognitive Science of Religion: Why do People Believe in God, Ghosts and Personal Immortality?"
January 30, 2014
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek Laura B. Grabel, Lauren B. Dachs Professor of Science and Society "Conversation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Faculty."
February 6, 2014
Ruth Striegel Weissman, Provost and Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences - “The Changing Landscape of Scholarships: How Can Wesleyan Most Effectively Respond to these Changes?”
February 27, 2014
J. Donald Moon, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies - “The Radicalism of John Rawls”.
March 27, 2014
Masami Imai, Professor of East Asian Studies and Economics - “Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain: The Impact of Titled Directors in 19th century British Banks.”
April 10, 2014
Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies - "The National Climate Assessment and What it Means to National Climate Action Plans and State/Local Initiatives."
April 24, 2014
Sonali Chakravarti, Assistant Professor of Government – “Rethinking the Ellsberg Myth: Whistleblowers as Political Actors.”
May 1, 2014
Margot Weiss, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology – “Visions of Sexual Justice.”
Academic Year 2012 - 2013
September 13, 2012
Elvin Lim, Associate Professor of Government - “The Lovers’ Quarrel: A Tale of Two Foundings.”
October 11, 2012
Tushar Irani, Assistant Professor of College of Letters & Philosophy - “Philosophy as a Social Science: Some Reflections on Plato’s Political Theory.”
October 25, 2012
Gil Skillman, Professor of Economic - “The Puzzle of Marx’s Missing ‘Results’: A Tale of Two Theories.”
November 15, 2012
Rob Rosenthal, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs – “The Provost asks, “What’s On Your Mind?”
November 29, 2012
A Round Table Discussion - “New Directions in Social Sciences (Division 2/9) (or How to Get Even More Money to do What You Love).”
December 13, 2012
Paul Erickson, Assistant Professor of History – “The Ford Foundation, Behavioral Science, and the Measurement of Values in 1950s America.”
January 24, 2013
Richard Adelstein, Professor of Economics – “Are Corporations People Too?”
February 14, 2013
Matthew Garrett, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies – “On the Social History of Literary Episodes.”
February 19, 2013
Ellen Nerenberg, Chair of the Faculty and Andy Szegedy-Maszak, Vice Chair – “Town Meeting.”
March 28, 2013
Laurie Nussdorfer, Professor of History - "Studying a Male City: Households of Men in Baroque Rome."
April 4, 2013
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, Assistant Professor of History - “The Problem with the 'Ordinary' Death: Material and Spiritual Life under late Soviet Socialism.”
April 11, 2013
A Round Table Discussion – “The State of the Public Affairs Center: A Discussion.”
April 25, 2013
Bruce Masters, Professor of History – “The Empire and its Collaborators: The Arabs in the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918.”
Academic Year 2011 - 2012
September 8, 2011
Mary Alice Haddad, Associate Professor of Government – “Japan’s Triple Disaster: Responses and Implications.”
October 13, 2011
Daniel Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology – “Education and Markets – School Choice and Academic Achievement in Comparative Perspective.”
November 10, 2011
Bruce Masters, Professor of History – “Arab in Revolt: The historian’s long view.”
December 8, 2011
Abigail Hornstein, Assistant Professor of Economics – “Managerial Investment in Mutual Funds.”
February 9, 2012
Stephen Angle, Philosophy and East Asian Studies – “Progressive Confucianism.”
February 23, 2012
Round table discussion (Gary Shaw) – “Research Support in the Social Sciences: Using Research Assistants/Interns.”
March 8, 2012
Private talk invitation only – Hosted by Gary Shaw
March 29, 2012
Sarah Croucher, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies. "Visible People, Invisible Slavery: Plantation Archaeology in Eastern Africa.”
April 12, 2012
A conversation with Rob Rosenthal, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.”
April 19, 2012
Gilbert Skillman, Chair of Faculty and Professor of Economics - "Follow up on the faculty executive session: articulating Division II concerns and priorities."
April 26, 2012
Asha Bhandary, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy - "The Rawlsian - Position on mothers and slaves.”
May 10, 2012
Andrew Curran, Dean of Art & Humanities - "Before Anthropology: Enlightenment 'Science' and the Category of the Human.”
Academic Year 2010 -2011
October 14, 2010
Dan Ullucci, Visiting Professor of Religion - “The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice.”
October 28, 2010
Jim McGuire, Professor of Government - “Social Policy in Latin America: Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences.”
November 11, 2010
Laura J. Stark, Professor of Sociology - “The making of ethical research in postwar American medicine.”
December 2, 2010
Leah Wright, Assistant Professor of African American Studies & History – “Nixon’s Black Cabinet: Economic Civil Rights in the Nixon Administration.”
February 10, 2011
Anne Peters, Assistant Professor of Government – “State as Chimera: Parallel Institutions, State Power and International Order.”
March 24, 2011
Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Religion – “Religion, Science and Empire: A Village View.”
April 21, 2011
Patrick Dowdey, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology & East Asian Studies – “The Sichuan Earthquake: Disasters, Governments & Society.”
April 28, 2011
Richard Grossman, Professor of Economics –“Financial History: From the 43 pound coin to the Subprime Crisis.”
May 5, 2011
Stewart Gillmor, Professor of History & Science, Emeritus – “Life after Wesleyan: Becoming a Vigneron.”
