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Interview with Michelle Murray – Vanderbilt University

Michelle Murray, assistant professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, discusses her work on representations of migrant women in Spain. The interview is conducted by Gabriella Farrell ’21, Clarke Forum Student Project Manager
Produced on: 4/14/2021
Genre: Interview
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Narrator or Host: Gabriella Farrell ’21
Interviewee: Michelle Murray Read more

Interview with Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of Citizen Science Association

Jennifer Shirk works to research, advance, and serve the field of public participation in scientific research. As the interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, she builds collaborations across different citizen and community science contexts to share practical and evidence-based knowledge for leading effective projects. Through her history and affiliation with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology she has worked in a wide range of informal learning and natural resource management settings, exploring promising practices that support integrity in both research and public engagement. Her research interests focus on citizen science for scientific research and conservation, particularly where complex decisions are at stake. Shirk has a B.A. in conservation biology from Bard College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in natural resources from Cornell University.Interview conducted by Scout Meredith Best ’21
Produced on: 12/8/2020
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Interviewee: Jennifer Shirk
Narrator or Host: Scout Meredith Best Read more

Interview with Michael Road, lead artist for Civic Imagination at Center for Performance and Civic Practice

Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of the 19-year-old national, ensemble-based Sojourn Theatre. In 2015, he received an Otto Rene Castillo award for Political Theater and The Robert Gard Foundation Award for Excellence. He is an institute professor at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts and is author of the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. He is lead artist for Civic Imagination at Center for Performance and Civic Practice where current initiatives include The Catalyst Initiative, Civic Body & Learning Labs. He was the 2013-2016 Doris Duke Artist-in-Residence at Lookingglass Theater Company in Chicago. Recent/Current projects include collaborations &/or productions with Goodman Theater, Bush Foundation, Singapore Drama Educators Association, Americans for the Arts, Nashville’s MetroArts, ArtPlac Americae, Cleveland Public Theater, United Way, Catholic Charities USA, Cook Inlet Housing Authority Alaska, ASU/Gammage & Steppenwolf Theater.Interview conducted by Scout Meredith Best ’21
Produced on: 9/30/2020
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: Michael Rohd
Moderator: Scout Meredith Best Read more

Interview with Anthropologist Glenn Stone

Glenn Stone is an anthropologist whose work centers on the politics and ecology of food and agriculture, including smallholder, alternative, and capitalist industrial agriculture and agricultural biotechnology (GMO’s). His fieldwork has been in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and Appalachia, with additional research in prehistoric archaeology in the U.S. Midwest and Southwest and in a biotechnology laboratory. Author of one book and and over 70 academic articles, he has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School for Advanced Research, and most recently the Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is past president of the Anthropology & Environment Society. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.Interview conducted by Scout Meredith Best ’21
Produced on: 9/3/2020
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: Glenn Stone Read more

Interview with Filmmaker Esery Mondesir

Esery Mondesir is a Toronto-based artist-filmmaker who was born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti. He worked as a high school teacher, a book designer, and a labor organizer prior to receiving an MFA in cinema production from York University (Toronto) in 2017. His work, which includes documentary, fiction, and experimental narratives, takes a critical stance on modern-day social, political, and cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society from its margins. In 2016, he received the Lawrence Heisey Graduate Award in Fine Arts and, in 2017, he received the Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Award.Interview was conducted by Carolina Celedon ’22, Clarke Forum student project manager
Produced on: 11/10/2020
Genre: Interview
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Narrator or Host: Carolina Celedon ’22
Interviewee: Esery Mondesir Read more

Interview with Robert Talisse, internationally recognized theoriest of democracy from Vanderbilt University

Robert B. Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. An internationally recognized theorist of democracy, Talisse has lectured throughout the world about democracy, moral disagreement, political polarization, and the ethics of citizenship. Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place is his tenth book.Interview is conducted by Gabriella Farrell ’21, Clarke Forum student project manager
Produced on: 10/27/2020
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: Robert Talisse Read more

Interview with Raff Donelson, asst. professor at Penn State Dickinson Law, to discuss race and policing

Raff Donelson is an assistant professor at Penn State Dickinson Law. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and legal philosophy. His writing has appeared in law reviews, philosophy journals, and other outlets, both scholarly and popular. In August 2020, Donelson was interviewed for the Ipse Dixit podcast about his work in punishment theory. In 2017, an interview with Donelson was published on Legal-Phi, an online venue showcasing rising stars in legal philosophy. Donelson holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Williams College.Interview is conducted by Logan Cort ’22, Clarke Forum student project manager
Produced on: 9/15/2020
Genre: Interview
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Narrator or Host: Logan Cort ’22
Interviewee: Raff Donelson Read more

Interview with Cathleen Cahill, social historian from Penn State University

Cathleen Cahill is a social historian who explores the everyday experiences of ordinary people, primarily women. She focuses on women’s working and political lives, asking how identities such as race, nationality, class, and age have shaped them. She is also interested in the connections generated by women’s movements for work, play, and politics, and how mapping those movements reveal women in surprising and unexpected places. She is the author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1932 (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), which won the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award and was a finalist for the David J. Weber and Bill Clements Book Prize. She is currently engaged in two book projects. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement (forthcoming Fall 2020) follows the lead of feminist scholars of color calling for alternative “genealogies of feminism.” It is a collective biography of six suffragists–Yankton Dakota Sioux author and activist Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša); Wisconsin Oneida writer Laura Cornelius Kellogg; Turtle Mountain Chippewa and French lawyer Marie Bottineau Baldwin; African American poet and clubwoman Carrie Williams Clifford; Mabel Ping Hau Lee, the first Chinese woman in the United Read more

Interview with Adam Isacson from Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

Adam Isacson has worked on defense, security, and peacebuilding in Latin America since 1994. He now directs Washington Office on Latin American (WOLA)’s Defense Oversight program, which monitors U.S. cooperation with Latin America’s security forces, as well as other security trends. Isacson accompanies WOLA’s Colombia program on peace and security issues. Monitoring U.S. aid, and advocating for peaceful resolution to Colombia’s long armed conflict, has led him to visit Colombia about 80 times. Since 2011, Isacson has also focused on border security. He has visited the U.S.-Mexico border about 25 times, and has also completed field research along the entire border between Mexico and Guatemala.The interview is being conducted by Amanda Sowah ’22, Clarke Forum student project manager
Produced on: 9/10/2020
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: Adam Isacson
Narrator or Host: Amanda Sowah ’22 Read more

Interview with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández about Immigration Prisons

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a writer and law professor at the University of Denver who focuses on migration policing. In December 2019, he published a book, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants, about the United States’ reliance on prisons to enforce immigration law. In 2015, he published his first book, Crimmigration Law. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC, The Nation, La Opinión, and numerous other publications in the United States and around the world.Hernández publishes crimmigration.com, a blog about the convergence of criminal and immigration law. He has been a fulbright scholar in Slovenia and is currently a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration.Gabriella Farrell ’21. Clarke Forum student project manager, is conducting the interview.
Produced on: 9/24/2020
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: César García Hernández
Narrator or Host: Gabriella Farrell Read more

Interview with Bryant K. Alexander

Loyola Marymount Professor Bryant Keith Alexander discusses his researhc on masculinity, intersectionality and positionality with Clarke Forum Student Project Manager Amanda Sowah ’22
Produced on: 10/30/2019
Genre: Interview
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Narrator or Host: Amanda Sowah ’22
Interviewee: Bryant Alexander Read more

Interview with Ambassador Makantabana

Professor Mathilde Mukantabana, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States of America,discusses Rwanda 25 years after the genocide. She is interviewed by Carolina Celedon ’22, Clarke Forum student project manager.
Produced on: 12/2/2019
Genre: Interview
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Interviewee: Mathilde Mukantabana Read more

Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Renowned philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is interviewed by Clarke Forum Student Project Manager Carolina Celedon '22. Appiah discussed cosmopolitanism and identity in various contexts.
Produced on: 9/19/2019
Genre: Interview
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Narrator or Host: Carolina Celedon
Interviewee: Kwame Appiah Read more

Interview with Jo Handelsman – Priestley Award Recipient

Jo Handelsman,director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Vilas Research Professor, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, is interviewed by Linh Nguyen ’20, Clarke Forum Student Project Co-Supervisor.
Produced on: 9/18/2019
Genre: Interview
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Speaker: Jo Handelsman
Narrator or Host: Linh Nguyen ’20 Read more