The Sherman Emerging Scholar Series

Since 2002 the UNCW History Department has hosted an annual lecture series established to honor two life-long learners and friends of the department, Virginia and Derrick Sherman.  Each spring the department selection committee announces the topic of the upcoming lecture and conducts a national competition among junior scholars to select our Emerging Scholar.  The lecturer visits campus during the third week of October and delivers a major lecture on the Thursday closest to United Nations Day.  Lecturers visit classes, provide interviews to the local press and meet with faculty members.  The lectures are published by the UNCW Publication Laboratory and distributed to UN Repository Libraries.   For more information please contact Susan P. McCaffray, Department Chairperson, UNCW, Wilmington, NC 28403, 910-962-3308, mccaffrays@uncw.edu.

Sherman Emerging Scholars and Lecture Titles:

2002      Michael S. Doran
Princeton University
"The United States, the Arab World and the Question of Palestine"
Dr. Doran is now working for National Security Council and is the author of Pan-Arabism Before Nasser (Oxford).

2003      Amy L. Staples
Middle Tennessee State University
"Imagining an International Community Based on Development and Peace"
Dr. Staples is the author of The Birth of Development (Kent State).

2004      Rebekah Kim Cragin
Rand Corporation
"Terrorism: Past, Present and Future Trends"
Kim Cragin and Andrew Curiel published "Prime Numbers 9/11 + 5" in the Sept. 11, 2006 edition of Foreign Policy.

2005      Zsuzsa Csergo
George Washington University
"What Europe's Emerging Democracies Can Teach Us: Lessons in Historical Division and Integration" Dr. Cesrgo is curently in the Department of Political Studies, Queens University. Her recent book is: Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell).

2006     Alexander Cook
Columbia and Brown Universities
"China from Mao to the WTO: Experiments in the Laws of History"
Dr. Cook is currently a Humanities Fellow in the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University.

2007 Jonathan Eastwood
Washington & Lee University
“Venezuela and Hugo Chavez: Reform or Revolution?”
Dr. Eastwood's recent book is The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela (Florida)

2008 Ebenezer Obadare
University of Kansas
“Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Postcolonial State”
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008; 7:30 pm Warwick Center; Free and open to the public.