Lunchbox lectures featuring UGA faculty are held in Moore College. Attendance is limited to the first 25 students who RSVP. Lunch is provided by the Honors Program through support from the Honors Program Annual Fund. If you are interested in leading a lunchbox lecture, please contact Maria de Rocher (derocher@uga.edu; 706-542-6908).

lunchbox lectures (Spring 2012)

What Are We Doing When We Do Law: The Case of the Health Care Reform Litigation with Dr. Christian Turner, Assistant Professor of Law

Gender, Fear, and Criminal Victimization with Dr. Jody Clay-Warner, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Criminal Justice Studies Program

Creating an Emotional Response to Financial Education with Dr. Lance Palmer, Assistant Professor of Housing and Consumer Economics

How Can Ancestry Be a Cancer Risk If Our Ancestors Did Not Die from Cancer? with Dr. Melissa B. Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and the GHSU/UGA Medical Partnership

The Narcissism Epidemic: Understanding the Cultural Forces Shaping the Contemporary Ego with Dr. W. Keith Campbell, Professor of Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program

Higher Education and Careers in Academe with Jere Morehead, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

What do U.S. Supreme Court Justices Really Fear about Video Cameras? with Dr. Sonja R. West, Associate Professor of Law

Roundtable Discussion about the Honors Program with David Williams, Associate Provost and Director of the Honors Program

Evaluating the Politics of Congressional Elections with Dr. Jamie Carson, Associate Professor of Political Science

The Multicultural Self in Multicultural Contexts with Dr. Bob Fecho, Professor of Language and Literacy Education

Le Cartoon Plan: French Animation Today with Dr. Richard Neupert, Coordinator of Film Studies, and Charles H. Wheatley Professor of the Arts

Five Myths Surrounding Alternative Fuels with Dr. Michael Wetzstein, Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics

lunchbox lectures (fall 2011)

Taxonomists: An Endangered Species? with Dr. Joseph McHugh, Professor and Curator, Department of Entomology

The Importance of Now: What Every Global Citizen Needs to Know About the Emerging Data on Climate Change with Dr. Jacqueline Mohan, Assistant Professor of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Odum School of Ecology

The 2012 Nomination Campaign - New Rules, New Players, New Media and Old Conflicts with Dr. Audrey Haynes, Associate Professor of Political Science

Has the Fed Been a Failure? with Dr. William D. Lastrapes, Professor of Economics, Terry College of Business

Alfred Hitchcock —the Master of Suspense as Master Art Historian with Dr. Janice Simon, Associate Professor of Art History

The Science and Practice of Meditation with Dr. Jerry Gale, Associate Professor of Child and Family Development

Leadership 2030 and Beyond: When Millenials Rule the World with Dr. Dale Gauthreaux, Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement, Terry College of Business

What Does Health Care Reform Have To Do With Young Adults? with Dr. Monica Gaughan, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management

The Possibility of Creative Learning in Higher Education with Dr. Tracie Costantino, Associate Professor of Art Education

Pathogenesis: How Infectious Agents Cause Disease with Dr. Corrie Brown, Professor of Veterinary Pathology

lunchbox lectures (spring 2011)

Queer Cinema: Educating Youth and Adults with Dr. Robert Hill, Associate Professor of Adult Education

How Much Better in School are Girls than Boys? with Dr. David Mustard, Associate Professor of Economics, Terry College of Business

Global Pastoral: A Poetry Screening with Dr. Andrew Zawacki, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing

50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of UGA: Desegregating UGA – The Regional Context with Dr. Thomas G. Dyer, University Professor Emeritus and Vice President for Instruction Emeritus

City Upon a Hill: Civil Rights and Desegregation in Rock Hill, South Carolina with Dr. Derrick P. Alridge, Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for African American Studies

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: Interdisciplinary Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences – The Experience of the Institute for Behavioral Research with Dr. Steve Beach, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology and Director of the William A. and Barbara R. Owens Institute for Behavioral Research

50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of UGA: Learning from our Past – Healing the Racial Divide, One Relationship at a Time with Dr. Tina Harris, Professor of Speech Communication

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: Conservation in a Complex World with Dr. Peter Brosius, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at UGA with Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of Ideas for Creative Exploration and a faculty member of the Lamar Dodd School of Art

50th Anniversary of the Desegregation of UGA: Evolution of Diversity Resistance with Dr. Kecia M. Thomas, Professor of Psychology and Senior Advisor to the Dean for Inclusion and Diversity Leadership

lunchbox lectures (fall 2010)

Legally Correct Fairy Tales: A Look at the Funny Side of Law with Deborah Gonzalez, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of Institutional Diversity

Beyond the Bad Men of Mad Men: How the Image Makers Have Kept America Beautiful Made an Indian Cry, and Prevented Forest Fires, with Dr. Karen King, Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Now You See It, Now You Don’t? Healthcare Reform in the Wake of the 2010 Election with Dr. Phaedra Corso, Associate Professor of Health and Policy Management, School of Public Health

Obama is a Muslim: The Persistence of a Political Myth with Dr. Barry Hollander, Associate Professor of Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: Fostering Interdisciplinary Inquiry with Dr. Libby Morris, Vice Provost of University of Georgia, Director of the Institute of Higher Education, and Professor of Higher Education

Time Stories: 50 Years of Desegregation at UGA with Dr. Cheryl Dozier, Associate Provost and Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Institutional Diversity

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Environmentalism: With Whom Do We Work to Save the Planet? with Dr. Betty Jean Craige, University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Cross-Disciplinary Conversations: How and Why Create an Interdisciplinary Institute like the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute? with Dr. Harry Dailey, Director of the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute and Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

What is Evidence-Based Medicine, and Why Haven’t We Always Done It? with Dr. Mark Ebell, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Why in the World does UGA have a Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases? with Dr. Daniel Colley, Director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Professor of Microbiology
Why the Reconstruction of Haiti Matters with Drs. Larry Nackerud and Ed Risler, Professors in the School of Social Work

Nature Inspired Search for Snakes in Hypercubes with Dr. Don Potter, Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Professor of Computer Science

lunchbox lectures (spring 2010)

Ouji Walking Through Confusion with Michael Oliveri, Associate Professor of Art and Digital Media

Collaboration with the CDC and a New Test for Malaria with Dr. Jessica Kissinger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics

Health Care Reform in the U.S.: The Beginning or the End? with Dr. Brenda Cude, Professor of Housing and Consumer Economics

Basic Financial Planning for the Graduating College Student with Charles A. Lankau, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Legal Studies, Terry College

Salamander Ecology in a Rapidly Changing World with Dr. John Maerz, Assistant Professor in the Wildlife Ecology and Management Program, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

The Spanish Inquisition: Expect the Unexpected with Dr. Benjamin Ehlers, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department

Sink, Swim, or Get Out of the Pool? with Dr. Myra Moore, Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Terry College of Business

What You Might Not Know About Haiti: How Haitians are Helping Each Other and Why with Dr. Leara Rhodes, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Wilderness Areas, the Wilderness Act, and the Courts with Peter A. Appel of the Georgia School of Law

Lunchbox Lectures (fall 2009)

What a Difference a Bow Makes: Chivalry and the Early Samurai Ethos in Comparative Perspective with Dr. Karl Friday, Professor of History

The Political Economy of NAFTA: Immigration and Drugs in Mexico with Dr. Sergio Quesada, Curriculum Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute

DNA Fingerprinting and Its Social Implications with Dr. Wyatt Anderson, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Genetics

In the Country of Beautiful Women: A Telenovela’s Critique of Plastic Surgery Obsession with Dr. Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Millennium Development Goals and You with Dr.Maria Navarro, Instructor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication

Who Will Win the Presidential Election and Why? with Dr. David B. Mustard, Associate Professor of Economics in the Terry College of Business

It Takes a Real Man to be the Perfect Woman: The Life and Career of Julian Eltinge, America’s Most Famous Female Impersonator with George Contini, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies

Development and Deployment of Innovative Solutions at the Bottom of the Economic Pyramid: Guiding Principles for Students and Others with Dr. William Kisaalita, Professor and Graduate Coordinator in UGA’s Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department

The Role of Journalists in Addressing Health Disparities in the South

with Professor Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at Grady College

Great Powers and Strategic Hedging: The Case of Chinese Equity Oil Investment with Dr. Brock F. Tessman, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs

Lunchbox Lectures (spring 2009)

What Happens to Soil When It Rains: Investigations of Soil Fe Cycling Across Hawaiian Climate Gradients with Dr. Aaron Thompson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences

Of Darters and Dollars: The Intersection of Science and Policy in the Etowah Watershed with Professor Laurie Fowler, Environmental Practicum Director at Georgia Law, Director of Public Service and Outreach at Odum School of Ecology, and River Basin Center Director for Policy

Exploring Behavioral Adaptability in Primates with Dr. Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, and Director of UGA’s Primate Behavior Laboratory

Investing in our Future: Poverty Reduction and Philanthropy in Athens with Delene Porter, President and CEO of the Athens Area Community Foundation

Statistical Reasoning and the Media with Professor Christine Franklin, Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Statistics

Medical Ethics: Old Problems, New Challenges with Robert S. Galen, MD, MPH, Professor and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Public Health

Workers' Rights in China? New Labor and Employment Laws with Dr. Marisa Pagnattaro, Associate Professor in the Department of Legal Studies, Terry College of Business