Hugh Gusterson
Hugh Gusterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in the study of scientists and scientific communities.  His major works include  Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (1996); People of the Bomb: Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex (2004); and his current book project, “Tinkering with Armageddon: Weapons Scientists in the Second Nuclear Age.”
 

The Hart Institute opens its 2004-2005 lecture series on Supreme Court Decisions with a symposium on Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders, co-sponsored by American Quarterly, USC Law School, and the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture. The keynote speaker is Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa.  Professor Kerber is a leading historian of American women, politics, law, and ideas. Her major works include: Federalists in Dissent; Women of the Republic; No Constitutional Right To Be Ladies; and An Intellectual History of Women.

David Cole
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flag burning. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has called him “one of the country’s great legal voice for civil liberties today,” and former CIA Director James Woolsey has called Professor Cole’s new book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003), “the essential book in the field.” In 2004, Enemy Aliens was awarded an American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize. Professor Cole’s first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association, and awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001.

Eric Foner
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1969. His publications include Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970), Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976), Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980), Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983), Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988), and Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993), and The Story of American Freedom (1998). In 2000, he served as President of the American Historical Association. His latest book, Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World, was published in 2002 by Hill and Wang.

Laura Kalman
A prominent and prolific scholar of American legal and political history, Laura Kalman is the author of Legal Realism at Yale, which won the Littleton-Griswold Prize in Legal History; Abe Fortas: A Biography; The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism; and the forthcoming Yale and the “Sixties”.  A past president of the American Society for Legal History and a member of the California Bar, she has received a teaching award from Yale Law School and grants from the American Bar Foundation and ACLS and was recently a Fulbright Research Scholar. Her current book project is Years of Transformation: The United States,
1974-1981, to be published by Norton.

Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich has combined law, scholarship, and political activism since graduating from the Harvard Law School, where she was the president of the Harvard Law Review. She clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Justice John Paul Stevens at the Supreme Court, served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and has held leadership positions in the Democratic National Committee, Common Cause, Planned Parenthood, and the ACLU. Her teaching and research specialties include Criminal Law and Procedure, Election Law, and Gender Discrimination. A frequent columnist and commentator on law and politics, she has also published major works such as Real Rape; Dangerous Offenders; Getting Away with Murder; and Sex and Power.

2003-04
Craig Russell
Professor of Music, California State University, San Luis Obispo
Trained in guitar and lute performance and in historical musicology, Craig Russell has written on subjects ranging from Mexican Cathedral music and eighteenth-century Hispanic studies to Bob Dylan and the Beatles. His first major work was a two-volume study of secular guitar music from Baroque Mexico, and he is currently completing a book on “Music of the 60s: War and Peace.” His recordings include original compositions such as Concierto Romantico and Rhapsody for Horn, and collaborations with Chanticleer on Mexican Baroque, Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe, and An American Journey. The recipient of NEH and Fulbright grants, Professor Russell has also won several teaching awards. He is an extraordinarily dynamic and charismatic lecturer.

Professor Russell’s study of Mexican Baroque music led him to the Conservatorio de las Rosas, where he found a wonderful cache of works for women’s voices. Founded in Morelia, Mexico in 1743 as a school for indigent and orphaned girls and young women, the Conservatorio resembled the famous Ospedalle della Pieta in Venice—-also a girls’ orphanage, where Antonio Vivaldi composed music specifically for his all-female choir and orchestra. (Mystery readers will know of the Ospedalle della Pieta from a less exalted secondary source, Barbara Wilson’s The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists.) The Conservatorio became one of the premiere musical institutions in the New World and was, in fact, the first conservatory in the Western Hemisphere. Professor Russell formed Ramo de Flores in 2001 in order to bring the music of the Conservatorio to modern audiences.

Ramo de Flores: Biographies of the Vocalists
Mezzo-soprano Natalie Arduino is an alumna of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Center for American Artists, and a winner of the American Opera Society of Chicago competition. She has appeared with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hawaii Chamber Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, the Metropolitan Opera Guild and New Jersey State Opera, as well as Little Orchestra Society in its Vivaldi’s Venice series at Alice Tully Hall, and as the Mother in their production of Amahl and the Night Visitors in Avery Fisher Hall. Her Carnegie Hall debut was with the Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah.

Soprano Maria Jette has appeared with the Saint Paul and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras, Minnesota Orchestra, Kansas City, Austin and San Antonio Symphonies, New York Chamber Symphony, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. With Helmuth Rilling, she has sung Bach, Mozart and Haydn in Germany, Spain, Venezuela, Japan and Canada. She is a regular guest at the Oregon Bach and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals, as well as on Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion. With harpist Judith Kogan, she has recently released recordings of Britten’s Folksongs of the British Isles and Fauré’s Mélodies on the Centaur label.

Mezzo-soprano Emily Lodine has appeared with the orchestras of Chicago, Phoenix, Rochester, Richmond, Milwaukee, Omaha, Jacksonville, Indianapolis and Minnesota. Recent performances include Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Music of the Baroque, and Handel’s Messiah with the symphonies of Detroit, Syracuse and Lexington, and at Carnegie Hall with conductor John Rutter. She has also sung with the Philip Glass Ensemble, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony and Berkshire Opera. Upcoming engagements include a return to Anchorage Opera for the title role in Gluck’s Orfeo, Messiah with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Verdi’s Requiem with the South Dakota Symphony.

Soprano Ava Pine is a graduate of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a versatile performer whose previous credits include productions with the Fort Worth Opera and Casa Mañana in addition to performing as a soloist in her fifth season with Orpheus Chamber Singers of Dallas, Texas. She has also performed the National Anthem at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic since 1995. A native of Fredericksburg, Texas, Pine now resides in Fort Worth.

Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis has been described as the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation, as one of the world’s top classical trumpeters, as a big band leader in the tradition of Duke Ellington, a brilliant composer, a devoted advocate for the Arts and a tireless and inspiring educator. He carries these distinctions well. His life is a portrait of discipline, dedication, sacrifice, and creative accomplishment.

The sound of Wynton Marsalis’ band is inspired by the basic principles of democracy. According to Marsalis, what you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.” This intelligent, hard swinging interplay has made Marsalis’ bands the favorite among jazz musicians and audiences worldwide. In the smallest of towns Wynton is received warmly and enthusiastically. The connection is the music, which mimics our valued way of life. Through jazz music Wynton Marsalis represents America all over the world. In such disparate locations from Prague to Warsaw, Seoul to Wellington, Paris to Istanbul, Santiago to Mexico City, Toronto to Calgary, Amarillo to Portland - you will find Wynton Marsalis sharing his vision of the union of jazz and democracy. Read more about Marsalis.

Richard Crawford
Richard Crawford, Ph.D. and Hans T. David Distinguished University Professor of Music, holds three degrees from Michigan and joined its faculty in 1962. His books, articles, reviews, liner notes and editions have focused on music in the United States. Mr. Crawford began musicological work in the field of early American sacred music, where his book-length publications include Andrew Law: American Psalmodist ; William Billings of Boston , written with David P. McKay and winner of the American Musicological Society's award for scholarly excellence; The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody , which won the Sonneck Society's Irving Lowens Award in 1986; and Early American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810, a collaboration with Allen P. Britton and Irving Lowens and winner of the Music Library Association's Vincent Duckles Award as the outstanding music bibliography. He has also served as editorial consultant for The Complete Works of William Billings (four volumes, 1977-90) and has written articles about Gershwin, Edward MacDowell, popular song of the 19th- and 20th-centuries, black music and jazz, and, with Jeffrey Magee, he has compiled Jazz Standards on Record: A Core Repertory . Mr. Crawford serves as editor-in-chief of Music of the United States of America (MUSA), a national series of scholarly editions sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the AMS and housed in the School of Music's American Music Institute. He has received fellowships from the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1985 he served as Ernest Bloch Professor of Music at the University of California at Berkeley; lectures he delivered there have been published as The American Musical Landscape (1993). Mr. Crawford was president of the American Musicological Society from 1982 to 1984, and in 1995 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Crawford's book, America's Musical Life: A History, will appear in print in 2000, and An Introduction to America's Musical Life in 2001, both published by W. W. Norton.

Robert Dawidoff
A distinguished and versatile scholar of American intellectual and cultural history, Robert Dawidoff’s major works include The Education of John Randolph; The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture v. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana; and Making History Matter. He is currently completing two books, The Glass Closet: Gay Men in American Culture from Whitman to Baldwin and White Liberalism: Is There Any Other Kind?

2002-03
Kenneth Warren
"W.E.B. Dubois’ Dusk of Dawn: The End of the Beginning in African" Americanist Inquiry
September 26, 2002
Professor of English at the University of Chicago, Kenneth Warren has written widely on American literature and literary history, and American and African American intellectual history. His major publications include Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (1993), which won the Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North American; and the forthcoming So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism. His Hart lecture draws on his current work, “Where I’ll Be Free: Literature, Politics, and the African Diaspora,” which examines the legacies of black emancipation in twentieth-century literature.

Barbara Ehrenreich
"Updating Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption and Invisible Workers"
October 31, 2002
Barbara Ehrenreich is a wide-ranging social cretic, author, and essayist, known for her witty, clear-eyed, and incisive analyses. She writes regularly on contemporary political and social issues for Time, The Guardian, The Progressive, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s, among other publications. Her longer works have examined issues ranging from the politics of women’s health (For Her Own Good) to the erosion of the middle class (Fear of Falling) to the origins of war (Blood Rites). Ehrenreich’s Hart Lecture will draw in part on her most recent book, Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America. Whereas Veblen dissected the lives of the rich and useless at the turn of the twentieth century, Ehrenreich examines the worlds of low-paid service workers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

George Sanchez
"Between Islands and Factories: Southern California trough the Eyes of Carey McWilliams"
November 21, 2002
As past president of the American Studies Association and currently Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, George Sanchez has written extensively on twentieth-century history, especially on questions of ethnicity, immigration, and cultural identity. He is the author of the prize-winning Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. He is currently working on “Remaking Community: Los Angeles and the Politics of Memory,” a study of racial and ethnic interaction in Boyle Heights; and “Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America.”

Michael Sherry
"Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: America’s Cold War Strange Love"
February 6, 2003
Professor of History at Northwestern University, Michael Sherry is a historian of 20th century America and of gay/lesbian culture. His books include Preparing for the Next War: American Plans for Postwar Defense 1941-45; The Rise of American Air Power: the Creation of Armageddon, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1988, and most recently In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. He is currently working on a study of gay male figures in American high culture during the Cold War.

William Cronon
"The Fallout of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring"
William Cronon is one of the most eminent and accomplished scholars of environmental history in the world. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, he is the author of Changes in the Land (1983), which won the Parkman Prize, and Nature’s Metropolis (1991), winner of the Bancroft Prize, and has edited Under an Open Sky (1992) and Uncommon Ground (1995). All of his work seeks to understand human interactions with the natural world and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. Professor Cronon’s Hart lecture examines one of the classic documents of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

2001-02
Bernard Bailyn
"The Puritan Utopia: Fault Lines, Diversity, and Holy Rage"
October 15, 2001
Bernard Bailyn is the Adams University Professor, emeritus, Harvard University, a past president of the American Historical Association, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and current Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World at Harvard.  His work has focused on early American history, the American Revolution, and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era. Among his books, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) and Voyagers to the West (1986) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, and the Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974) won the National Book Award.  Most recently, Professor Bailyn has received the Jefferson Medal of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the nation's highest honor in the humanities, and the Bruce Catton Prize of the Society of American Historians for lifetime achievement in the writing of history. Bailyn's scholarship has ranged widely in approach and topic, from the study of economic life in seventeenth-century Massachusetts to education in early American society to his current project, a monumental, multi-volume study of the migration and settlement patterns of the early modern Atlantic world.

David Brion Davis
"Secular Scripture: The Declaration of Independence as an Exemplar"
November 15, 2001
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.  His most influential work has focused on the problem of slavery in the western world, from ancient Greece to the age of emancipation in the western hemisphere. Among his major students, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1967), won the Pulitzer Prize and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1976), won a National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Beveridge Award.  His most recent book, In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values and Our Heritage of Slavery was released in 2001.  Professor Davis writes frequently for the New York Review of Books and other journals and he is currently completing the final two volumes in the "Problem of Slavery" series.

Thomas C. Holt
"Competing Visions of Race and Nation at the Dawn of the American Century"
February 28, 2002
A former MacArthur Fellow and past president of the American Historical Association, Thomas Holt has a longstanding scholarly interest in comparing the experiences of peoples in the African diaspora, particularly those in the Caribbean and the United States.  His major works include Black Over White (1977), a study of black political leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction, which won the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Prize; The Problem of Freedom (1992), which examined the economy, politics, and society in Jamaica after slavery and won the Elsa Goveia Prize of the Association of Caribbean Historians; and Beyond Slavery, coauthored with Frederick Cooper and Rebecca Scott (2000).  Professor Holt's Hart lecture drew on his most recent book, The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (2000), an on two works in progress, an intellectual biography of W.E.B. DuBois and a theoretical study of race in America.