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lunchbox lectures & book discussions ![]() Lunchbox lectures feature UGA faculty and are held in Moore College. Attendance is limited to the first 25 students who RSVP through the Honors Network. Lunch is provided by the Morehead Honors College through support from the Honors Annual Fund. The Morehead Honors College hosts faculty-led book discussions throughout the year. Discussions are held over dinner, usually in professors' homes or at Moore College, and all books are provided by the Morehead Honors College through support from the Honors Annual Fund. lunchbox lectures (spring 2019) Reconstructing Landmarks: The Moral Dimension of Two Historic Sites with Dr. Wayde Brown, Associate Professor of Environment and Design The Economics of Happiness with Dr. Susana Ferreira, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics Health Care Reform in the U.S.: What's Next? with Dr. Brenda Cude, Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Family and Consumer Sciences Archaeology and the Science of Roman History in the 21st Century with Dr. Jordan Pickett, Assistant Professor of Classics Ouvi Dizer [Heard Said]: Gossip and Rumor about Sex and Race in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil with Dr. Cassia Roth, Assistant Professor of History and Latin and Caribbean Studies Why Is Global Politics So Angry? And What Should ‘We’ Do About It? with Dr. Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor of Communications Measuring Rights & Wrongs: The Importance of Data for Defending Human Rights with Dr. K. Chad Clay, Associate Professor of International Affairs Staging Creolization: Women's Theater and Performance from the French Caribbean with Dr. Emily Sahakian, Associate Professor of French and Theatre Activism Through Attire: Learning and Enacting Punk Through Clothing Merchandising with Dr. Monica Sklar, Assistant Professor of Fashion History and Merchandising College Enrollment Patterns and the Gender Gapwith Dr. Chris Cornwell, Professor and Chair of Economics Why Don’t People Believe Scientists? With Dr. Mark A. Farmer, Professor of Cellular Biologylunchbox lectures (fall 2018) Denied Justice: Why Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse are Barred Access to the Court System with Emma Hetherington, Professor of Law Fifty Shades of Gray between Bias and Outright Fraud in Science with Dr. Mark Haidekker, Professor of Engineering Evaluating Midterm Elections: What to Expect in 2018 with Dr. Jamie Carson, Professor of Political Science Health Consequences of Labor Trafficking: Survivor Experiences in West Africa with Dr. Jody Clay-Warner, Professor of Sociology The United States Supreme Court with Dan Coenen, Professor and Harmon W. Caldwell Chair in Constitutional Law The Costs and Benefits of Cash with Dr. William Lastrapes, Professor of Economics and Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Chair of Private Enterprise My Short Life as (the Face of) a Russian Disinformation Troll with Tim Samples, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies The Uncertainties of Racism, Classicism, and Misogyny: How ‘What If’ Worlds Can Help Us Find Our Way with Dr. Stephanie Jones, Professor of Educational Theory and Practice How a Grain-trading Millionaire Helped Start the Russian Revolution with Dr. Scott Nelson, Professor of History and Athletic Association Professor in the Humanities Emerging Infectious Diseases in a Changing World with Dr. John Drake, Professor of Ecology lunchbox lectures (spring 2018) Sanctuaries in an Era of Mass Immigration Enforcement with Jason Cade, Associate Professor of Law Exploring Early Black Print Culture: The Transatlantic Activists Ellen Craft and Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford with Dr. Barbara McCaskill, Professor of English Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation with Elizabeth Burch, Professor of Law Thinking Outside of the Box: Finding the Fraud Needle in the Haystack with Dr. Tina Carpenter, Associate Professor of Accounting Is Top 10 Better than Top 10%? How Different Ranking Formats Influence Preference with Dr. Julio Sevilla, Associate Professor of Marketing How Do Natural Plant and Animal Communities Cope with Climate Change? with Dr. Jill T. Anderson, Associate Professor of Genetics The Syrian Civil War: The Fight for Syria and the Future of the Syrian People with Dr. Leah Carmichael, Department of International Affairs Zombies, Sports, and Cola: Implications for Communicating Weather and Climate in the 21st Century with Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Professor of Geography How Organizational Culture Plays a Role in Small Business Innovation Even in the Absence of Entrepreneurial Orientation with Dr. Don Chambers, Associate Director of Entrepreneurship The Nuts and Bolts of Modernity with Dr. Stephen Mihm, Associate Professor of History Energy Harvesting: The Thermoelectric Niche with Dr. John Mativo, Associate Professor of Workforce Education The Changing Face of Higher Education with Provost Pamela Whitten lunchbox lectures (fall 2017) Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense as Master Art Historian with Dr. Janice Simon, Associate Professor of Art History Oh, What an UnTangled Web We Weave: The Abnormal Structure of Illegal Digital Markets with Dr. John Hulland, Professor of Marketing Why Plant-microbial Symbioses Matter in Our Changing World with Dr. Nina Wurzburger, Associate Professor of Ecology The First Movies: How the Lumière Bros. Invented Cinema with Dr. Richard Neupert, Professor of Art It's a Wormy World—One Person's Journey Down a Wormy Path from Basic Science into Global Health with Dr. Dan Colley, Professor of Microbiology and Cellular Biology The Urge to Abstraction in Art and Dance: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Miss Loïe Fuller, 1893 with Dr. Nell Andrew, Associate Professor of Modern Art Measuring Muscle Mitochondria and Endurance in Clinical Populations with Dr. Kevin McCully, Professor of Kinesiology The Plastic Safety Net: Consumer Borrowing and Public Assistance with Dr. Mary Caplan, Assistant Professor of Social Work Experiences as Science Advisor and Principal Cast Member of Chasing Coral with Dr. James Porter, Professor of Ecology and Marine Science Animal Movement, Behavior and Habitat: Geospatial Analysis of Elephant-Human Conflict with Dr. Marguerite Madden, Professor of Geography lunchbox lectures (spring 2017) What Makes the Blood Clot? with Dr. Rodney Averett, Assistant Professor of Engineering Critical take(s) on Systemic Functional Linguistics: Bilingual and Bidialectal Students and Social Equity with Dr. Ruth Harman, Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education Two Examples of Weird Evolution: Sterile Workers and Selfish Sex Chromosomes with Dr. Dave Hall, Associate Professor of Genetics Application of Engineering Theories in Veterinary Medicine with Dr. Tim Foutz, Professor of Engineering The Cultural Significance of Trees in Georgia with Dr. Timothy Smalley, Associate Professor of Horticulture Palmetto Postmortem: Examining the Effects of the South Carolina Voter Identification Statute with Dr. Trey Hood, Professor of Political Science Demonized No More: The Spiritual Journeys and Spaces of Black Gay and Bisexual Men with Dr. Darris Means, Assistant Professor of Counseling and Human Development Services Investors Make Predictable Mistakes: How Financial Data Predicts Future Stock Returns with Dr. John Campbell, Associate Professor of Accounting Istock's Paradox and the Conservation of Georgia's Rarest Frog with Dr. John Maerz, Professor of Vertebrate Ecology Climate Change and the Origins of Agriculture with Dr. Suzanne Birch, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Geography Propaganda 2.0: Fake News and How to Deal with It with Dr. Audrey Haynes, Associate Professor of Political Science Why Did Punks Hate Hippies? with Dr. Montgomery Wolf, Senior Lecturer of History Dismantling Institutional Racism: The Path to Positive Interracial Communication with Dr. Tina Harris, Professor of Communication Studies lunchbox lectures (fall 2016) How the Brain Folds and Creases with Dr. Xianquao Wang, Assistant Professor of Engineering The Governance of Olympic Legacy: From General Benefits to Long-Term Sustainability with Dr. Becca Loepkey, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Advertisers Using Branded Content to Connect with Consumers with Dr. Karen King, Professor of New Media and Advertising Capitalism and the Election with Dr. Jeff Netter, Professor of Finance Three Civil War Heroes You've Never Heard Of with Dr. Dan Rood, Assistant Professor of History Prisoners as Historians of Pain with Dr. Steven Soper, Assistant Professor of History Metacognition: How Students Self-regulate to Learn Biology with Dr. Julie Dangremond Stanton, Assistant Professor of Cellular Biology Stumbling into Disease Ecology and Evolution in Seastars with Dr. John P. Wares, Associate Professor of Genetics and Ecology lunchbox lectures (spring 2016) Belfast, the Troubles and the Necessity of Art with Dr. Nicholas Allen, Director of the Willson Center and Franklin Professor of English Cultural Landscapes with Prof. Cari Goetcheus, Associate Professor in the College of Environment and Design Bombs Away: Legal and Ethical Issues Concerning Chemical and Conventional Weapons-Testing on Vieques, Puerto Rico with Dr. James Porter, Professor of Ecology and Marine Sciences Looking at the Civil War Through Literature with Dr. Cody Marrs, Assistant Professor of English Water Stewardship: Good for Business, Good for Citizens with Dr. Maric Boudreau, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems lunchbox lectures (fall 2015) Francis, the Argentine Pope: Between Liberation Theology and Climate Change with Dr. Oscar Chamosa, Associate Professor of History Castles in the Air: The Weather and Policy Contexts of Bounce House Accidents with Dr. John Knox, Associate Professor of Geography Super PACs, Big Money, and the New Electoral Landscape with Dr. William Lee, Professor of Journalism Insects - Their Impacts on Our Planet and Human Culture with Dr. Michael Strand, Professor of Entomology The Real Energy Crises with Dr. John Schramski, Associate Professor of Engineering Re-examining the Democratic Peace with Dr. Andy Owsiak, Assistant Professor of International Affairs Water in the Time of Cholera with Dr. Erin Lipp, Professor of Environmental Health Science Light at the End of the Tunnel: MSC Therapy for Childhood Bone Disease with Dr. Luke Mortensen, Assistant Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Engineering Rebel Poetry: Artistic Dissidence and the Making of Modern Iraq with Dr. Kevin Jones, Assistant Professor of History book discussions (spring 2019) The Perfect Weapon; War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (David Sanger) The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis) Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Beth Macy) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Hariri) Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City (Nevin Cohen and Kristin Reynolds) Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (J.D. Vance) Discussion Leader: Dr. Andy Carswell, Associate Professor of Financial Planning, Housing & Consumer Economicsbook discussions (fall 2018) Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience by Students, for Students (Robert H. Miller) Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions (Richard Harris) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Asha Bandele and Patrisse Khan-Cullors) North Toward Home (Willie Morris) Opened Ground Selected Poems, 1966-1996 (Seamus Haeney) Technically Wrong (Sara Wachter-Boettcher) Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C. White, Jr.) Crónica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Gabriel García Márquez) The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro) Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) book discussions (spring 2018) Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald C. White Jr. Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton A Mercy by Toni Morrison Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource by David Sedlak book discussions (fall 2017) The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Janine di Giovanni) Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (Valeria Luiselli) The Door (Magda Szabo) Beren and Lúthien (J.R.R. Tolkien) The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu) This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Whitney Phillips) The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View (Richard Tarnas) Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders) book discussions (spring 2017) The Book of Joy (Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams) The Guy’s Guide to Feminism (Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel) Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Jon Krakauer) Populism: A Very Short Introduction (Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser) The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking (Oliver Burkeman) Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (Suzanne Franks) The Log from the Sea of Cortez (John Steinbeck) A Testament of Hope (Martin Luther King, Jr.) The Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu) book discussions (fall 2016) The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Ruchir Sharma) The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns (Sasha Issenberg) Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Angela Duckworth) This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Naomi Klein) The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien) The Golden Ass by Apuleius (translated by Sarah Ruden) Excerpts from Dr. Sara Kutchesfahani’s forthcoming textbook on the global nuclear order A Sacred Union of Citizens: Georgia Washington’s Farewell Address and the American Character (Matthew Spalding) When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi) book discussions (spring 2016) Righteous Transgressions: Women’s Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right (Lihi Ben Shitrit) Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Studs Terkel) Dubliners (James Joyce) Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) Why Evolution is True (Jerry Coyne) Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones) Moonwalking with Einstein (Joshua Foer) Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham) book discussions (fall 2015) Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr) Brain Rules: 12 Principals for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (John Medina) Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Islam (Ian Buruma) Still Alice (Lisa Genova) Life Animated (Ron Suskind) Go Set a Watchman (Harper Lee) Ragtime (E.L. 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