Meet Our Visiting Scholars!
Andrew Jamison, Professor, Technology and Society, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University.
Dr. Andrew Jamison has accepted a short residency at Wake Forest to work with Pat Dixon in the Department of Music. He studies the politics of science and technology, particular in the context of social movements. He is currently interested in the making of "green knowledge"--ideas and practical experiments in the world of environmental politics. Dr. Jamison will work with undergraduate students in Professor Dixon’s First Year Seminar and will give other talks at several departments, including Communications and Anthropology. He will also speak at the Wake Forest Medical School.
Robert Audi, David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Management and of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
Professor Robert Audi, as the Philosophy Department's T. J. Lynch Distinguished Visiting Scholar, will be in residence at Wake Forest from early January to early March of 2010. Audi is well known for his work in ethics (including business ethics), epistemology, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and other areas. He is the author of 13 books and numerous articles. While in residence at Wake Forest, Audi will give a series of lectures open to the public, make presentations in a number of departments and programs, pursue research with members of the Philosophy Department, and participate in several philosophy courses.
Lock Johnson, The Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia.
The Political Science Department is hosting Professor Johnson as this year’s Visiting Phi Beta Kappa Scholar. Professor Johson is the recipient of UGA’s Meigs Prize for outstanding teaching as well as the Owens Award for research in the social sciences. He is senior editor of the international journal Intelligence and National Security and the author of over 150 articles and numerous books on U.S. national security, among them Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy, Handbook of Intelligence Studies, and Strategic Intelligence (5 vols.). His primary research and teaching interests are intelligence and security studies, American foreign policy, and executive-legislative relations in the United States. He will visit Wake Forest on April 14-15 and will give a public lecture entitled "9/11, Iraq WMDs, the the Decline and Fall of the CIA." He will also teach several classes and meet with students during his visit.
Joseph Daniels, Professor of Economics, Marquette University
The Economics Department welcomes Joseph Daniels as the Lelia and David Farr Visiting Distinguished Professor. Dr. Daniels is teaching two courses (Selected Areas in Economics: Economics of Religion and International Finance). He is also giving three public talks. On February 25 he spoke on "Inflation: From Stagflation to Deflation?" On April 16, he will speak on "The Economics of Religion: Renewed Interest in an Old Subject." He will also present "The Global Food Crisis" as part of the Great Decisions 2009 series.
Marc Hirshman, Mandel Chair in Jewish Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Department of Religion is pleased to host Dr. Hirshman this fall as The Hebrew University Exchange Scholar. Dr. Hirshman’s research encompasses the Rabbinic period in comparison to Christianity and Paganism in Late Antiquity. His publications include A Rivalry of Genius: Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Late Antiquity (SUNY Press, 1995) and Torah for the Entire World (in Hebrew, haKibbutz Ha’Meuchad, 1999). His new book, The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture 100.c.-350 c.e.: Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context, will be published in October by Oxford University Press. Professor Hirshman was a Starr Fellow at Harvard University in 1998, the Stanley Arffa Lecturer at Yale University in 2005, and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in 2007.
The Theater and Dance Department is hosting Michael Huie, who played the Earl of Gloucester in the department’s 2009 production of King Lear. Michael is an actor and writer, and an alumnus of Wake Forest. As an actor, he has worked in regional theatre in North Carolina and Virginia, performing with the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Theatre IV, Barksdale Theatre and others. In 2000, he played Hamlet in the first production to open the new Ring Theatre. He has also appeared in movies for TNT and CBS. He is the author of three plays – Jack, 3 Hats and The Houdini Show. His one-man show Jack has toured the Mid-Atlantic and was also performed in the UK. He has written extensively for the Winston-Salem Journal, Go Triad, Winston-Salem and Greensboro Monthly magazines, and is on the editorial advisory board for USA Hockey Magazine. During Spring 2009, he worked extensively with everyone involved in the production and taught a lecture in the Introductory Theater and Dance Class.
The Theater and Dance Department is hosting Dennis Krausnick, who will play the King in this semester’s performance of Shakespeare play, King Lear. Dennis, an actor, director, playwright and teacher, is a co-founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts where he serves as its Director of Training as well as on its Board of Trustees. He teaches and directs Shakespeare productions in theatre programs across the country as well as designing and leading the actor-training programs for Shakespeare & Company. He also serves as Senior Consultant for Corporate Scenes, providing theatre-based consulting work for the international corporate community. His adaptations for the stage include some twenty-five one-act plays and half a dozen full-length plays based on the fiction of Edith Wharton and Henry James. He was awarded the Bingham Chair of Arts and Humanities for 2006 at the University of Louisville in recognition of his contributions to the field of actor training. While at Wake Forest during the Spring 2009 semester, Dennis worked intensively with everyone involved in the production. Dennis also visited and taught in a number of classes, including first year seminars, classes in English, and several in theater.
During the spring semester Wake Forest symposium on creativity, Meredith Monk taught a master class to over 40 Wake Forest dance, music, and theatre students drawn from spring semester courses in Opera Workshop, Directing, Improvisation, and Dance Composition. Students studying dance composition benefited from Monk’s detailed discussion and critique of their choreographic studies set to her music. “The students were so inspired by this encounter that they realized they should continue developing the work for the spring dance concert performance,” said assistant professor of dance and concert director Christina Tsoules-Soriano. “It was a particularly valuable experience for them because of the collaborative nature of the piece. Meredith’s feedback is reflected in each and every student’s contributions as a choreographer and performer in the dance, aptly entitled Monk-y Business.”
Meredith Monk, a preeminent, creative force in interdisciplinary performance, is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music-theatre works, films, and installations. Her creative work “thrives at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception.” Monk’s honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Award, and three Obie Awards, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Peter Gilbert, Award-winning filmmaker and director Peter Gilbert will be at Wake Forest for the public screening of At the Death House Door – November 4, 7 p.m., Annenberg Forum in Carswell Hall.
Peter Gilbert has had a distinguished career in producing, directing and photographing documentaries, feature films, commercials, and music videos. He was one of the filmmakers of Hoop Dreams, a film having received numerous awards including The Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Producers Guild of America Award, and The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Journalism.
At the Death House Door premiered in 2008 at South by Southwest and follows the career of Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. Mr. Gilbert will attend the Wake Forest screening and host a question and answer session following the film.