MURFREESBORO
— Dr. Thomas
J. Sugrue, author, professor and specialist in 20th century American politics,
will deliver the 2013 Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture in History on
Tuesday, Sept. 24, in MTSU’s Business and Aerospace Building.
The topic
of his 6 p.m. address in the State Farm Lecture Hall, Room S-102, is "The
Education of Barack Obama: Race and Politics in the Age of Fracture."
Sugrue’s free lecture is open to the public. A campus map
with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap13-14.
Sugrue,
the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania and the director of the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum
there, also will meet for formal and informal classes and workshops with
students and faculty during his visit to MTSU, which is coordinated by the
College of Liberal Arts.
The
Strickland Visiting Scholar program allows students to meet with renowned
scholars whose expertise spans a variety of historical issues. The Strickland
family established the program in memory of Dr. Roscoe Lee Strickland Jr., a
longtime professor of European history at MTSU and the first president of the
university’s Faculty Senate.
Sugrue has
been teaching about and writing on politics, urban history, civil rights and
race since the 1990s, earning numerous grants and
fellowships from organizations such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social
Science Research Council and the Brookings Institution along the way.
His first book, “The Origins of the Urban Crisis”
(1996), won the Bancroft Prize in American History and helped to redefine the
field of postwar urban history by focusing on the role of racial violence,
discrimination, and deindustrialization in the collapse of Rust Belt cities.
Since then he has written and edited books on suburban history, W. E. B.
DuBois, the northern civil rights movement and, most recently, Barack Obama.
Sugrue was educated at Columbia University, King's
College at Cambridge and at Harvard, where he earned his doctorate in 1992. He
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and president of the
Urban History Association.
Sugrue also will be a guest on the next “MTSU On the Record” airing
from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).
For more
information about this Strickland Visiting Scholar Lecture, please contact Dr. Mark Doyle at mark.doyle@mtsu.edu.
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