Professorial Lectures: 2015-2016
Gold Chains to Rusty Shackles: Justice and Defiance in Imperial Ethiopia
Chuck Schaefer, Ph.D. (Department of History)
In the 1916 Battle of Segele, a select body of Ethiopian aristocrats overthrew Emperor Lidj Iyasu. They believed that the Emperor’s commitment to social and political change threatened the very…
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It Starts with a Question: A Reflection on 15 years of Evidence-Based Librarianship
Ruth Connell, M.S (Department of Library Science)
Most academic librarians wear many hats and work across diverse areas, especially at smaller institutions such as Valpo. Because work informs research and research informs work, Connell’s research spans many…
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Cinema Boldly: Kluge & Kairos
Peter Lutze, Ph.D. (Department of Communication)
The film director and television producer Alexander Kluge has been a major cultural figure in Germany since the 1960s. Lawyer, teacher, and literary figure, his prodigious output in varied media…
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Policy Experiments in Property Tax
David Herzig, LL.M. (School of Law)
There was a long-standing belief in baseball that scouting was the best way to find major league talent. This belief was challenged by Billy Bean, made famous in the book…
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The Death of the Common Law
David R. Cleveland, LL.M. (School of Law)
Our legal system is known as a common law system. Judicial opinions establish the law entirely on some issues and provide necessary development of the law on other issues, publishing…
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Brand Damage
Curtis W. Cichowski, LL.M. (School of Law)
Once little more than a welcome consequence of good business, brand has become the profit prerequisite. Brands have matured into economic engines. They drive market-share, they drive investment, and they…
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Observations on Ethnicity and Ancestry in the United States, 2010-2012
Jon Kilpinen, Ph.D. (Department of Meteorology)
A wealth of data from the 2010 U.S. Census and estimates from the 2012 American Community Survey provide us with important insights on race, ethnicity, and ancestry. County-level maps of…
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Early Christian Views of Mental Health and Their Influence on Contemporary Western Thought
Jim Nelson, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology)
Mental illness has been recognized as a problem since classical Greek and Roman times. During the classical period, three worldviews offered a foundation for different visions of mental health. The…
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Mistake after Mistake after Mistake
Michael Watters, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
A largely chronological parade of failures, flops, frustrations, blunders, miscalculations, missteps, oversights, surprises and goofs while researching mutation, morphology and growth in Neurospora crassa.
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