Arts and Sciences Faculty Book Talk series announced
Mississippi State faculty members will tackle issues ranging from childhood experiences to emerging diseases to ancient literary collections in this semester’s MSU Faculty Book Talk series hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Free to all, the first talk is Tuesday [Sept. 17] at 3:30 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Library’s John Grisham Room and will include a public reading and book signing.
“The MSU Faculty Book Talk series celebrates one of the most significant research achievements for faculty in the humanities and social sciences: the publication of an academic book. This lecture series provides College of Arts and Sciences faculty an opportunity to share their research with the MSU community, and it provides this community an opportunity to learn about the important research being done by faculty in the college,” said Eric Vivier, series director and associate professor of English.
Margaret A. Hagerman, an associate professor in MSU’s Department of Sociology, will begin the series with selections from her recent NYU Press publication “Children of a Troubled Time: Growing up with Racism in Trump’s America.” Hagerman’s newest publication examines the ways in which young people understand and navigate racial dynamics in a politically charged environment, looking at the role of parents, schools and communities in shaping children’s views.
On Oct. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in the Griffis Hall Forum Room 401, Professor Molly Zuckerman, a biological anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, will read from “Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present.” The Oxford University Press book published in June details the biological, social and environmental factors that have contributed to emerging infectious diseases, like COVID-19, as well as surging rates of chronic and degenerative diseases, like cancer.
On Nov. 19 at 3:30 p.m. in Griffis Hall Forum Room 401, Associate Professor Scott DiGiulio of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures will present selections from “Reading Miscellany in the Roman Empire: Aulus Gellius and the Imperial Prose Collection.” Published in August by Oxford University Press, it offers his insights into ancient literary collections that include “profound meditation on the experience of reading and literary culture” at the height of the Roman Empire.
MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences includes more than 5,000 students, 300 full-time faculty members, nine doctoral programs and 25 academic majors offered in 14 departments. Complete details about the college can be found at www.cas.msstate.edu.
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Sarah Nicholas | College of Arts and Sciences
