Academic Minute from 10.17 – 10.21
Monday, October 17th
Matthew Feinberg – University of Toronto
Persuading Political Opponents
Matthew Feinberg is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Rotman. He earned his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the underlying psychological processes that lead individuals to join together to form cohesive groups and societies, with a particular focus on morality and political attitudes. Matthew’s research has been published in journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Emotion, and Political Psychology. His work has been covered by various media outlets including The Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters, Fox News, Scientific American, Al Jazeera, CBS News, USA Today, WebMD, National Geographic, Huffington Post, and San Francisco Chron.
Tuesday, October 18th
Scott Selisker – University of Arizona
Brainwashing
Scott Selisker teaches at the University of Arizona, and he has also taught at Macalester College, the University of California, Santa Barbara (as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow) and the University of Virginia, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2010. His research and teaching both look into the ways that ideas, images, and questions have circulated between literature, film, and the sciences in the U.S. in the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to the book described here, he has published articles on Ralph Ellison’s ideas about sociological approaches to race; depictions of religious cults in literature and the social sciences; the representational challenges of writing science fiction about genetically modified organisms; and, most recently, the ways that fiction models social networks in the twenty-first century.
Wednesday, October 19th
Curtis Dozier – Vassar College
Political Rhetoric
Curtis Dozier received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and specializes in Latin poetry, classical rhetoric, and ancient literary criticism. He is currently writing a book on Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria. In addition to his work in the department of Greek and Roman Studies, Professor Dozier serves as faculty advisor to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans studying at Vassar through the college’s partnership with the Posse Foundation.
Thursday, October 20th
Stephen Schwalbe – American Public University
Should The Electoral College Be Abolished?
Dr. Schwalbe, Program Director of Political Science at American Public University, retired from the Air Force in 2007 as a colonel after 30 years of active duty service. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Air Force Academy; a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University; a Master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School; a Master’s degree from the Naval War College; and, a PhD from Auburn University in Public Policy.
Friday, October 21st
Victoria Pagan – University of Florida
Conspiracy Theories
Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Florida, Victoria Emma Pagán is a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for 2014-2016 and a recipient of a Teaching Award in 2010 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. With over a dozen articles on Latin literature, her research focuses the historians and post-Augustan writers. She has written twin studies for the University of Texas Press: Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2004) and Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature (2012). She is the author of Rome and the Literature of Gardens (London 2006) and A Sallust Reader (Wauconda 2009), and she is the editor of the Blackwell Companion to Tacitus (2012). She is editing the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Tacitus and writing an introduction to Tacitus for I. B. Tauris Publishers. Born and raised in Ravenna, Ohio, Victoria spent a year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island, before she earned her B.A. in Latin at Kent State University, her M.A. at the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. A member of the Florida Track Club, she resides in Gainesville with her husband, son, and daughter.
