Professor of Political Science Amy Fried鈥�s new (co-authored) book, titled At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump, was published by Columbia University Press, Professor of English Margo Lukens鈥檚 new (co-authored) book, titled “Still They Remember Me” Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1, was published by University of Massachusetts Press, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology Kyriacos Markides鈥檚 new book, titled The Accidental Immigrant: A Quest for Spirit in a Skeptical Age, was published by Hamilton Books. All three books appeared this year (2021), and all three authors employed tools drawn from the humanities 鈥� historical inquiry, thoughtful reflection, and understandings of perspective and connection 鈥� to develop their ideas and complete their projects.

The event is part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center鈥檚 2021-2022 Annual Symposium: 鈥淗umanities: Impact in Real Life.鈥澨�

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES:

Amy Fried听is John Mitchell Nickerson Professor of Political Science at the University of 海角社区. She is the author of听Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public听Opinion (Columbia, 1997) and听Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation, and the Making of Public Opinion Professions听(2012).

听is a scholar of Native American literature who has long collaborated with the Penobscot nation.听 She is a Professor of English at the University of 海角社区, and the former Director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.

Kyriacos Markides, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of 海角社区, has written several books on Christian mysticism for academic publishers including Yale University Press, and trade publishers like Doubleday.

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惭辞诲别谤补迟辞谤:听Robert A. Ballingall, 听Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of 海角社区.听Professor Ballingall’s research interests lie听in classical political philosophy and its fraught relationship to modern 鈥� especially liberal democratic 鈥� political thought.听 Before coming to U海角社区, Professor Ballingall was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard and Allan Bloom Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Research in Classical Political Thought at the University of Toronto, where he also took his PhD.听 Professor Ballingall鈥檚 new book,听The Reverent City: Plato鈥檚 Laws and the Politics of Ethical Authority, is under contract to the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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