Lecture at UCLA: “Reading the American Road Trip”

Susan McWilliams (Pomona College) will lecture on the American road trip, hosted by the JMC Partner Program at UCLA, the Center for Liberal Arts and Free Institutions

Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017
Time: 7:30-9:00 PM
Location: UCLA Law School Building, Room 1447
385 Charles E Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA

 

This lecture is free and open to the public. No RSVP is necessary. Light refreshments will be provided.

Susan McWilliams is an Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College, where she has twice won the Wig Award for Excellence in Teaching.

She is the author of Traveling Back: Toward a Global Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2014) and a co-editor of several books, most recently The Best Kind of College: An Insiders’ Guide to America’s Small Liberal Arts Colleges (co-edited with John Seery, SUNY Press, forthcoming). Her writing has been published widely, including in Boston ReviewBustFront Porch Republic, Perspectives on Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, The Review of Politics, and The Star-Ledger.

McWilliams received her B.A. in political science and Russian from Amherst College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, where she won the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni University Teaching Award.

In 2014 she won both the Graves Award in the Humanities and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.

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