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1999 Faculty Fellows Conference

"The Question of Freedom"

Keynote Speaker

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and elected President Elect of the American Historical Association: The Story of American Freedom: The Debate Over the Meaning of Freedom in American History

Faculty Fellow Presenters

Edward M. Wise, Professor, Law: The Tension Between Efficiency and Freedom in the General Principles Common to Different National Systems of Criminal Law

Lesley Brill, Professor, English: Freedom, Crowds, and Power: Elias Canetti and Film Studies

Robert Aguirre, Assistant Professor, English: Freedom and Culture: British and Mexican Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Era of Mexican Independence, 1821-1893

Jorge L. Chinea, Assistant Professor, Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies; History: The Quest for Freedom: Manumission Prospects for Maroons (Fugitive Slaves) in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1664-1800

Ellen Barton, Associate Professor, English: Discourses of Disability: Freedom as Access and Backlash at Costs

Olivia Washington, Assistant Professor, Nursing: Improving Chemically Dependent Women's Perception of Freedom, Self-Efficacy and Employability Using Cognitive/Didactic and Experiential Group Therapy

Brad Roth, Assistant Professor, Center for Legal Studies; Political Science: Of 'Positive Liberty' and 'Teleological Democracy': Coercion and the Quest for a Substantive Human Freedom

Sheila Lloyd, Assistant Professor, English: Beyond the Shadow of the Eagle: Internationalizing African-American Cultural and Literary Studies

John Bukowczyk, Professor, History: Dialogic Encounters: Scholars, their Publics, and Freedom of Inquiry: Urban Education, the Liberal Arts, and the University