Faculty Seminars

Faculty seminars have spanned an array of interdisciplinary topics including Jamaican agro-ecology, Chinese immigrants in Charleston, the cultural and musical roots of Porgy and Bess, and the environmental history of plantation settlement. Over the past five years, noted scholars such as African American historian Peter Wood (Duke), literary critic David Shields (The Citadel), anthropologist Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins), and historical archaeologist Kathleen Deagan (Florida Museum of Natural History) have presented papers.

Spring 2005
January 28: Dr. Rosemary Brana-Shute, Department of History, College of Charleston, “‘Daughters of the Regiment:’ Entrepreneurial Free and Enslaved Women and the Eighteenth-century British army in the Caribbean”

February 11: Dr. Moore Quinn, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, College of Charleston, “Toasting King William and ‘Cusha Moi Croi’: Irish-American Verbal Art before the Great Famine”

March 15: Dr. David Brown, Department of History, University of Sheffield, “Race Relations from the Bottom up: Herrenvolk Democracy and the Informal Economy”

Fall 2003
September 26 Professor Alpha Bah from the College of Charleston’s History Department offered a program on the Lowcountry’s connections to Liberia: past, present, and future. Bah, who is the Director of African Studies, has taught at Howard University and at the University of Liberia. He is currently working on a history of Charleston-West African connections.

November 14 Professor Douglas Friedman of the Political Science Department at the College of Charleston presented a talk entitled “Human Rights and Cuba-U.S. Relations.” Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, his main teaching and research interests include Comparative Politics - Latin America, Economic and Political Development, Revolution. Friedman is the author of The State and Underdevelopment in Spanish America: The Political Roots of Dependency in Peru and Argentina.