Designing Humanity
Hamilton Cravens
Thursday, 27 Sep 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Hamilton Cravens is a professor of history at Iowa State and the 2007 Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Scholar. His teaching and research interests include American cultural and intellectual history and the history of science and technology. He is the author or editor of eight books, including the forthcoming "Designing Humanity: The Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1776-2001." Cravens has been a Ford Foundation Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center and the Davis Humanities Center - University of California. He is also the recipient of three Fulbright Awards. Cravens is working on a new book about changing notions of race in America since reconstruction.Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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