Baktash Ahadi, award-winning documentary filmmaker, discusses the making of the film, Retrograde, with Ella Layton ’26, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Dr. Malabika Sarker, Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown School of Public Health, Brown University, discusses her work with implementation research and public health with Bella Lapp ’26, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Keri Blakinger is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she covers the sheriff’s department and jails. She is the author of the 2022 memoir, Corrections in Ink, which traces her journey from competitive figure skating, to struggles with an eating disorder and addiction, to eventually a two-year sentence in New York’s prison system. Blakinger is interviewed by Isa Mester ’26, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is am associate professor of classics at Princeton University, where he is associated with the Department of African American Studies and affiliated with the Programs in Latino Studies and Latin American Studies and the University Center for Human Values. He is interviewed by Bella Lapp ’26, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Sarah E. Hill, researcher and professor at Texas Christian University, discusses her book, “Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences,” as well as her professional life with Clarke Forum Student Project Manager Sofia Perrone ’25. Read more
Author Kim van Alkemade discusses her work on her recent book, “Counting Lost Stars,” with Phuong Hoang, Clarke Forum Student Project Manager ’26. Read more
Myisha Cherry, associate professor of philosophy, University of California Riverside, discusses her book, The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle, with Ella Layton ’26, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Russell Bova, the J. William Stuart & Helen D. Stuart ’32 Chair in International Studies and a professor of political science at Dickinson College, is interviewed by Xenia Makosky ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. He discusses the effects of the Ukraine-Russia war since it began. Read more
Dr. Ian S. Lustick, the Bess W. Heyman Chair (Emeritus) in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania., discusses his research on the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his meaning of “Holocostia”, among other topics related to Israel He is interviewed by Shayna Herzfeld ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager
Mark Paul, assistant professor of economics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, discusses his research, his career, and his upcoming book “The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights” with Georgia Schaefer-Brown ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Alan Davis, clinical psychologist and the director of the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education in the College of Social Work at Ohio State University, discusses his research on psychedelic-assisted treatments. Read more
John C. Mather, senior astrophysicist and is the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), discusses his role on the team who developed the JWST and the ultimate goals of the JWST. Read more
Bernard Fraga, associate professor of political science at Emory University, is interviewed by Noah Salsich ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. Fraga’s career and his research is discussed. Read more
Ronee Penoi, a writer, producer and activist who is one-half of FLORA Musicals, the theater company that is working on The Carlisle Project, is interviewed by Noah Salsich ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. Penoi talks about her career and her work on The Carlisle Project. The project uses song, satire, and ceremony to tell the harrowing history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, PA. Read more
Arachu Castro is the Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America and director of the Collaborative Group for Health Equity in Latin America at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. She is a medical anthropologist trained in public health. She discusses her career as a medical anthropologist and her experiences working in global public health, with Sofia Perrone ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more
Psyche Williams-Forson, professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, and author of ”Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America ,” discusses her interest in Black food studies research, and her findings when writing her book. She is interviewed by Shayna Herzfeld ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager.
Sigal Ben-Porath, professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, is interviewed by Erin Lowe ’23, Student project supervisor. Her book “Free Speech on Campus” is discussed. Read more
Jorge Olivera Castillo of City of Asylum, is interviewed by Sofia Perrone ’25, Clarke Forum student project manager. His life as a prisoner, his inspiration for his poetry, the Ladies in White movement, and his life as an artist. Read more
Anthony Borden discusses his career in journalism with Natalia Fedorczak ’24, Clarke Forum student project manager Read more
Katrina Jurgill-Bridell discusses her life and work experiences and how to have “balance” with Natalia Fedorczak, 24, Clarke Forum student project manager. Read more