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The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities,
Department of Sociology, Department of History, and the
Literacy Studies Working Group

invite you to

One Nation Divisible:
What American Was and What It Is Becoming
Michael B. Katz
University of Pennsylvania

Michael B. Katz is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has focused on three major areas: the history of American education; the history of urban social structure and family organization; and the history of social welfare and poverty.

With Mark Stern, he has written One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming, commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation and published in March 2006. See more information about the book.

The last one hundred years have been marked by incredible transformations in American society. Great advances in civil rights have been tempered significantly by rising economic inequality. One Nation Divisible provides a compelling new analysis of the issues that continue to divide this country and the powerful role of government in both mitigating and exacerbating them.

Wednesday, May 10, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
George Wells Knight House 104 East 15th Avenue

Reception Follows.
Please let us know if you will attend: lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265

For more information about Michael Katz's visit, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu

Literacy Studies at OSU: A New Initiative

Harvey J. Graff, English & History; Steve Acker, TELR & Communication; Terry Barrett, Art Education; Mollie Blackburn, Language, Literacy and Culture, Education; Marcia Farr, Language, Literacy and Culture, Education & English; Anne Fields, University Library; Henry Fields, Dentistry; Susan Fisher, Biology; Alan Kalish, Teaching & Learning Center; Carolina Gill, Art & Design; Kay Bea Jones, Architecture; Beverly Moss, Center for the Study & Teaching of Writing & English; Amy Shuman, Folklore & English; Lewis Ulman, English & Humanities; Mindy Wright, Writing Workshop; Amy Pope-Harman, Medicine; and Susan Hanson, Doctoral Candidate, English.

We are developing a Literacy Studies Working Group, with the aim of fostering a sense of collaboration among different disciplinary clusters and their constituents, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law. The Literacy Studies Working Group intends to foster a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships.

The Literacy Studies Working Group is supported by the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, College of Humanities, Department of English, and Arts and Science Colleges.

If you would like your name added to the LSWG listserv, contact Susan Hanson at hanson.94@osu.edu