Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.
Her nanoparticle research has many applications
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Writer
Santiago, foreign policy expert Gelb
to speak By Barbara Rea Writer Esmeralda Santiago will deliver the Latin American Awareness Week keynote lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m. Oct. 9 in Graham Chapel.
Santiago is replacing Carlos Fuentes, who canceled his engagement for personal reasons. Latin American Awareness Week explores the issues of cultural identity for Latinos. Santiago has been called a remarkable storyteller. In her 1993 autobiographical account, When I Was Puerto Rican, she evokes a world informed by two cultures and explains the double bind in which Puerto Rican Americans find themselves. In her travels from a rural barrio in Puerto Rico to the years of transition in New York City, she explores the notion of identity that is common to many immigrants and their children: Is she black or white; rural or urban, Puerto Rican or American? Her first novel, America's Dream, also considers the theme of identity and change. Her most recent book, Almost a Woman, continues her autobiographical story and was recently featured on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. Born in Puerto Rico, the oldest of 11 children and raised by a single mother, Santiago was well acquainted with hardship. Moving to Brooklyn, N.Y., at age 13, she was thrust into American culture via junior high school. After stints at community colleges, she transferred to Harvard University with a full scholarship and graduated magna cum laude in 1976. In addition, she holds a master of fine arts in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Together with her husband, Santiago founded a film-production company specializing in documentary filmmaking. In addition, she has helped establish shelters and centers for victims of domestic violence.
He has held a number of positions at The New York Times, including serving as a columnist, an op-ed page editor, a national security correspondent and a diplomatic correspondent. He received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1986. In addition to his journalism career, Gelb has worked for the Department of Defense, as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, as a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and as assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. His publications include Anglo-American Relations, 1945-1950: Toward a Theory of Alliances; Claiming the Heavens; Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy; and The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. Gelb earned a bachelor's degree from Tufts University, and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. At the Department of Defense, he received its highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award. All Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, call 935-4620 or visit the Assembly Series Web site at wupa.wustl.edu/assembly. |
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