The annual lecture gives the College of Liberal Arts the opportunity to share examples of the exciting scholarship, research and creative activities that are being carried out within the College. Videos of some of the past lectures are available on the College of Liberal Arts YouTube channel in the Events playlist.
For more information, contact Fallon-Marshall@tamu.edu.
Former Fallon-Marshall Lecturers
Randy Kluver, Communication, 2015
Crowd-sourced Espionage? There’s an App for That: The Geopolitics of New Media
Kirsten Pullen, Performance Studies, 2014
Actin Naturally: Performance, Subjectivity and Hollywood Stardom
Dudley Poston, Sociology, Fall 2013
China’s Changing Demography is Changing the World
Darryl de Ruiter, Anthropology, Spring 2013
Australopithecus sediba and the Origin of the Genus Homo
Troy Bickham, History, 2012
The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, English, 2011
The Literature of Living Water: Literary Environmentalism in the American Southwest in the Wake of World War II
Craig Kallendorf, English, 2010
The Liberal Arts and Their History: Continuities, Ruptures, and Challenges
Eduardo Urbina, Hispanic Studies, 2009
Humanities Research in the Digital Age: Recovering the Illustrated History of the Quixote
Walter D. Kamphoefner, History, 2008
What’s New About the Newest Immigration? A Historian’s Perspective
Stjepan G. Mestrovic, Sociology, 2007
Professional Ethics, Honor, and the Abuse at Abu Ghraib
Michael R. Waters, Anthropology, 2005-2006
Lone Star Stalag: German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne
Vaughn M. Bryant, Anthropology, 2004
Crime Scene Forensics: Using Pollen to Catch Murderers, Rapists, Thieves, and Terrorists
David Vaught, History, 2003
Born in the Country: Agriculture, Baseball and the Paradox of American History
Katherine I. Miller, Speech Communication, 2002
Emotion in the Workplace: Tales from Ordinary and Extraordinary Organizational Life
David Rosen, Psychology, 2001
The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Jon Alston, Sociology & D. Bruce Dickson, Anthropology, 2000
The Character and Intellectual Futility of Scientific Creationism
Daniel Bornstein, History, 1999
Teaching the History of Christianity
Richard Street, Speech Communications, 1998
The (Mis)Use of Interactive Media to Provide Health Services
Pamela Matthews, English, 1997
The Afterlife of Joan of Arc in American Literature and Culture
Alston Thoms, Anthropology, 1996
Sacred Guardians, Profane Practitioners & Texans Without History
Jane Sell, Sociology & Melanie Hawthorne, Modern and Classical Languages, 1995
The Future of the Humanities: Postmodern Positivism?
Daniel Fallon, Psychology, 1994
Romance on Paradise Street: Genealogical reflections on the founder of French romantic literature, the Viscount Francois Rene de Chateaubriand