Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Owen Ozier is an Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College. He joined faculty after nine years in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His published and current research projects include studies in Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda. His work focuses on health, education, and economic decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Kate Stroud, an Associate Professor of Psychology, focuses her research on the origins and consequences of depression. Examining the interface between depression and the social environment, she explores reciprocal associations between stress, interpersonal relationships and depression in children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Jessica Fisher is an Associate Professor of English at Williams College and a widely published writer. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Bennington Review, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and The Yale Review, and her translations have been published in The New York Review of Books and The Paris Review. She was awarded the 2012 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature, a Holloway Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetry, and a research grant from the Hellman Foundation.
Ethan Zuckerman offers a lens for understanding civic engagement that focuses on efficacy, the power of seeing the change you make in the world.
The writing of Haitian authors Edwidge Danticat & Évelyne Trouillot have "opened new worlds, helped us to recall old ones, & they have insisted that we imagine ones that may not yet exist," - Moderator Régine Jean-Charles.
