Public Scholars at
Hanover College
Constitution Day Celebration
September 21, 2006
In celebration of Constitution Day, the Center for Free Inquiry will host a panel discussion on Thursday Sept. 21 at 3:00 in Classic 102 to discuss the Constitution post-9/11, using as a starting point John Lewis Gaddis' book: SURPRISE, SECURITY, AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Panelists will include Professor G.M. Curtis, Professor Dan Murphy, and Hanover alumnus, Professor Chris Bryant '91 from the University of Cincinnati Law School. The book will be on reserve in the library prior to the event. This event is free and open to the public.
Panelists
Chris Bryant '91: Professor Bryant is a prolific scholar and a popular teacher. Prior to joining the faculty here, he spent three years on the faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was voted Law Professor of the year in 2001-02. After earning his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Bryant clerked for James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a litigation associate at Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. and Assistant Senate Legal Counsel in the U.S. Senate Office of Legal Counsel.
G. M. Curtis III: Professor of history at Hanover College, Curtis
is the recipient of the Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding
Teaching 1986, 1990, 1994. G.M. Curtis came to Hanover in 1980, after
teaching at Montana State University and the College of William and Mary
and working as a Research Associate at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
and the Papers of John Marshall. His courses include American Constitutional
and Legal History, The American Bill of Rights, and The Prophetic Voice
in the American Religious Past. Curtis recently published an article review
on the biographical study of Thomas Jefferson, "Sphinx Without a Riddle:
Joseph Ellis and the Art of Biography," in The Indiana Magazine of
History. His edition of Nicholas Creswell's Journal appeared in The
Indiana Magazine of History.
Daniel P. Murphy '81: Professor Murphy joined the Hanover College faculty in the fall of 1988 after earning his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. No stranger to Hanover College, Dan earned a BA here in 1981. In 1996 Dr. Nichols, President of Hanover College, enlisted Dan to be the Founding Director of the Center for Free Inquiry, a position he held until 1999 when he became an Associate Director in order to return to full-time teaching at the College. He recently resumed duties as CFI Director. Murphy teaches many courses on American history and culture, and is currently exploring the cultural underpinnings of the debate over American intervention in the Second World War. He continues work on a book about Theodore Roosevelt. Subsidiary products include interest in the symbolic resonance of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the 1920s and 1930s, and the Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages to Europe of 1930-1933.