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Ebola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World
David Quammen is a journalist and award-winning author of several books including Spillover (2012), which explores the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases, especially viral diseases. More recently,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/ebola-and-beyond-scary-viruses-in-globalized-worldTeaching Religious Liberty
James Sonne is a Stanford Law School professor and founding director of the school's Religious Liberty Clinic, the nation's only program where law students learn through full-time representation of real clients in live…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/teaching-religious-libertyRich Nation, Poor Nation: A History of Race, Region, and Inequality in Brazil
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and chair of the history department at New York University, where she teaches Brazilian and modern Latin American history. Her research has focused on Amazonian political…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/rich-nation-poor-nation-history-of-race-region-and-inequality-in-brazilIncarceration by Any Other Name: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the State
Susan Sered is a professor of sociology at Suffolk University in Boston and a senior researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. Previously she also directed a research program in Reli…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/incarceration-by-any-other-name-unholy-alliance-of-religion-therapeutic-culture-and-stateTaxing California
Mac Taylor has served since 2008 as the nonpartisan fiscal advisor to both houses of the California Legislature and oversees the preparation of annual fiscal and policy analysis of the state’s budget and programs. With…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/taxing-californiaGender Is a Process, Not a Trait: The Dynamics of the Origins of Difference in Infancy
Anne Fausto-Sterling is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies in the department of molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry and former director of the Science & Technology Studies…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/gender-is-process-not-trait-dynamics-of-origins-of-difference-in-infancyThe Fall of Prop. 8 - Marriage Equality at the U.S. Supreme Court
Kris Perry & Sandy Stier were the lead plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case Hollingsworth v. Perry, the federal challenge to California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Perry and Stier first tried to marry in 2004,…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/fall-of-prop-8-marriage-equality-at-us-supreme-courtSurfing for Change
Kyle Thiermann, pro surfer, philanthropist, environmental activist, and entrepreneur, captivates the attention of environmental and social activists by offering simple daily decisions and choices that benefit local econ…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/surfing-for-changeSoft Power is Hard!
What does the world admire about America? Science and technology, higher education, consumer products — but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. These ideals are in global retreat, contends Martha Bayles, in part becau…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/soft-power-is-hardExamining the Roots of Polarization in Our Constitutional Order
The second annual Dreier RoundTable (DRt) will focus on the constitutional roots of political conflict in American politics. A panel of experts, including former Congressman David Dreier '75, Tom Campbell, dean of the D…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/examining-roots-of-polarization-in-our-constitutional-order