227 MTSU SITE OF JAN. 29 LECTURE BY PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR NELSON

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CONTACT: College of Liberal Arts, 615-898-2534

MTSU SITE OF JAN. 29 LECTURE BY PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR NELSON
‘MTSU’s Super Tuesday Lecture’ Free and Open to the Public


(MURFREESBORO)—Dr. Michael Nelson, the Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, will present a free and open lecture titled “MTSU’s Super Tuesday Lecture” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of MTSU’s Business Aerospace Building.
A member of Rhodes’ political science faculty since 1991, Nelson is the author of more than 200 articles that have been published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Politics and Political Science Quarterly and in periodicals such as Newsweek and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Prior to accepting his current professorship at Rhodes College in Memphis, he taught at Vanderbilt University for 13 years and served.
Dr. John Vile, chairman of MTSU political science department, said Nelson’s upcoming visits promises to deliver a presentation by someone who is considered “the gold standard” when it comes to presidential discourse.
“He’s one of the leading presidential scholars in the country,” Vile said of Nelson. “He’s spoken here before … as part of the Windham Lecture series, and he will be as up-to-date and honest on the issues as they come.”
A former journalist, Nelson earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He has authored several books, including his most recent titles, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation: The Politics of State Policy Innovation and The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, as well as 2006’s The Presidency and the Political System and The Elections of 2004, the latter of which was released in 2005.
For more information on Nelson’s upcoming lecture, please contact the College of Liberal Arts at 615-898-2534 or Dr. Mark Byrnes in the Department of Political Science at 615-898-2351.


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