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2001-44 (11/4/01)
Poetry of Protest
Guest: Martín Espada, Poet Laureate, Northampton, Massachusetts; Professor of English, UMass Amherst; author, A Mayan Astronomer In Hell's Kitchen.
Cuban/American: And the 90 Miles In Between repeated from June 2001
Guest: Melinda Lopez, writer, performer.
2001-43 (10/28/01)
On Witches and Stone-Throwing Devils
Guest: Emerson Baker, Associate Professor of History, Salem State College.
Lucy Stone
Guest: Judith Black, storyteller.
2001-42 (10/21/01)
A Teacher's Memoir
Guest: Daniel Robb, author, Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir.
Mental Health Needs of Women Transitioning Off Welfare
Guest: Carol Cardozo and Lisa Sussman, McCormack Institute, UMass Boston.
2001-41 (10/14/01)
A Joyful Noise
Guest: Deborah Weisgall, author, A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers.
Reviving Cambodian Performing Arts
Guest: Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodian Master Performers Program.
2001-40 (10/7/01)
Privacy and the Internet
Guest: Richard Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Privacy Foundation.
Online Education
Guest: Jack M. Wilson, CEO of UMass Online.
2001-39 (9/30/01)
Sexual Intelligence
Guest: Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn, authors of Sexual Intelligence; professors of psychology, UMass Boston.
2001-38 (9/23/01)
A Woman's Works Is Never Done
Guest: Noni Pratt and Merry Conway, Co-Creators of "A Woman's Work Is Never done: A House of Curiosities."
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Guest: Alan Banks, supervisory Park Ranger, Frederick Law Olmsted, National Historic Site.
2001-37 (9/16/01)
The Court Education Project
Guest: Maria Karagianis, Executive Director, James D. St. Clair Court Education Project.
Workable Peace Project
Guest: Stacie Nicole Smith, Co-Director, Workable Peace Project.
2001-36 (9/9/01)
Culture as Power
Guest: Jane Sapp, musician, cultural worker, and educator.
The Boston Folk Festival
Guest: Dick Pleasants, Folk Radio personality
2001-35 (9/2/01)
Fair Housing
Guest: David Harris, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
Making Education a Right for All
Guest: Carol Desouza, ADA/504 compliance officer, UMass Boston; Executive Director, International Association on Higher Education and Disability.
2001-34 (8/26/01)
Lucy Stone
Guest: Judith Black, storyteller.
Charles Sumner: Massachusetts's Anti-Slavery Senator
Guest: Michael Pierson, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell.
2001-33 (8/19/01)
The Mirror Project
Guest: Roberto Arevalo, media educator; founder and director of The Mirror Project.
Give Us Your Poor
Guest: John McGah, staff member, Center for Social Policy at the McCormack Institute, UMass Boston; executive producer, Give Us Your Poor.
2001-32 (8/12/01)
Adoption and Identity
Guest: Peter Gibbs, Director, Center for Adoption Research.
Doctors' Social Responsibility
Guest: Part II of our discussion with Ken Fox, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
2001-31 (8/05/01)
Poetic Justice repeated from March 2001
Guest: Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor, Atlantic Monthly; author, Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done.
New Words repeated from March 2001
Guest: John Morse, publisher, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
2001-30 (7/29/01)
Militarizing Women's Lives
Guest: Cynthia Enloe, professor of Government and Women's Studies, Clark University; author, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives.
Teaching about the Vietnam War
Guest: Paul Atwood, Professor of American Studies, UMass Boston; Research Associate at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.
2001-29 (7/22/01)
Overcoming Violence
Guest: Rob Okun, Associate Director, Men's Resource Center, Northampton.
Elizabeth Stone House
Guest: Robyn Maguire, Coordinator of Outreach and Education, Elizabeth Stone House.
2001-28 (7/15/01)
Shakespeare Behind Bars
Guest: Jean Trounstine, professor of Humanities, Middlesex Community College; author, Shakespeare Behind Bars.
A Right to Literacy
Guest: Lorna Rivera, Assistant Professor, College of Public & Community Service, UMass Boston; researcher, Gastón Institute, UMass Boston.
2001-27 (7/8/01)
Discussion with an Arctic Expeditionist
Guest: Heddi Vaughan Siebel, artist and Arctic expeditionist.
A Women's Language
Guest: Cathy Silber, assistant professor of Chinese, Williams College
2001-26 (7/1/01)
Reclaiming Cultural Space
Guest: Jeremy Liu, artist with the New Modern Cultural Center Project; Director, Community Programs, Asian Community Development Corporation.
Heads and Tales
Guest: Monni Adams, curator, Peabody Museum exhibit "Heads and Tales: Adornments From Africa."
2001-25 (6/24/01)
Sustainable Development
Guest: Julian Agyeman, Professor, Environmental Policy at Tufts University; Editor, Local Environment.
Environmental Issues in the Inner City
Guest: Klare Allen, community organizer, Alternatives for Community & Environment; Co-Director, Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project.
2001-24 (6/17/01)
Cuban/American: And the 90 Miles In Between
Guest: Melinda Lopez, writer, performer.
Film and Society
Guest: Charlene Gilbert, filmmaker and fellow at Bunting Institute, Harvard University
2001-23 (6/10/01)
Washington's First Ladies
Guest: Catherine Allgor, Assistant Professor of History, Simmons College; author, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.
A History of Marriage
Guest: Nancy Cott, Woodward Professor of History and American Studies, Yale; and author, Public Vows, A History of Marriage and the Nation.
2001-22 (6/3/01)
Poetry of Protest
Martín Espada, Poet Laureate, Northampton, Massachusetts; Professor of English, UMass Amherst; author, A Mayan Astronomer In Hell's Kitchen.
The Scarlet Professor
Guest: Barry Werth, author, The Scarlet Professor: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal.
2001-21 (5/27/01)
Cancer and Hope
Guest: Perry Colmore, author, The Book On Hope.
Surviving AIDS
Guest: Dave Morris, Board Member, Community Research Initiative, Positive Directions.
2001-20 (5/20/01)
The Civil War: History and Memory
Guest: David Blight, Professor of History, Amherst College; author Race and Reunion.
Charles Sumner: Massachusetts's Anti-Slavery Senator
Guest: Michael Pierson, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell.
2001-19 (5/13/01)
My Town
Guest: Karilyn Crockett, Director, MyTown.
Travelling With Let's Go
Guest: Marly Ohllson, Publicity Manager, Let's Go.
2001-18 (5/6/01)
U.S.-Cuban Relations: A Discussion With Congressman James P. McGovern
Guest: James McGovern, Congressman, Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District.
Cultural Survival
Guest: Ian McIntosh, Managing Director, Cultural Survival.
2001-17 (4/29/01)
Farming in New England
Guest: Kathy Ruhf, Co-director, New England Small Farm Institute.
Hunger in Massachusetts
Guest: Paul Richard, Director of Development, Worcester County Food Bank.
2001-16 (4/22/01)
Boston: A Renaissance Region
Guest: Mary Huff Stevenson, professor of Economics UMass Boston; author, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis.
The Example of Vancouver
Guest: Larry Beasley, Director of Planning, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
2001-15 (4/15/01)
Controlling TB
Guest: Edward Nardell, Tuberculosis Control Officer, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Developing New Therapies for Obesity
Guest: Harvey Lodish, member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Professor Biology, MIT.
2001-14 (4/8/01)
Toys That Kill
Guest: Marla Felcher, author, It's No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products.
The Hip Hop Literacy Program
Guest: Ken Fox, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
2001-13 (4/1/01)
Culture is a Good Investment
Guest: Mary Kelley, Executive Director, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
A Whale of a Museum
Guest: Anne Brengle, Executive Director, New Bedford Whaling Museum
2001-12 (3/25/01)
Poetic Justice
Guest: Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor, Atlantic Monthly; author, Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done.
New Words
Guest: John Morse, publisher, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
2001-11 (3/18/01)
MCAS: A Student Leader's Perspective
Guest: Jody Kelman, chair, State Student Advisory Council to Board of Education; Concord-Carlisle High School senior.
Teen Voices
Guest: Jillian Cohan, Managing Editor, Teen Voices
2001-10 (3/11/01)
Conversation with Dickens scholar Joel J. Brattin
Guest: Joel J. Brattin, Professor of English, WPI; Editor, Everyman Dicken's edition of Our Mutual Friend..
Dickens and America
Guest: Diana Archibald, Assistant Professor of English, UMass Lowell and organizer of conference on Dickens and America: Literature, Industry and Culture.
2001-09 (3/4/01)
Aging Outrageously and Courageously
Guest: Ruth Jacobs, Sociologist and Gerontologist; author, Be An Outrageous Older Woman
Experiencing Frailty
Guest: Muriel Gillick, Physician In Chief, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged; author, Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart.
2001-08 (2/25/01)
The Best of Commonwealth Journal
Guest: Elizabeth Sherman presents the best of Commonwealth Journal's first year.
2001-07 (2/18/01)
Documenting the Undocumented
Guest: Joan Krizack, University Archivist; Head, Special Collections Department, university libraries, Northeastern University.
Women and Boston: A History. Part II
Guest: Sarah Deutsch, author, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston 1870-1940..
2001-06 (2/11/01)
The Making of Columbia Point in Boston
Guest: Richard Gelpke and Nancy Seasholes. Richard Gelpke is a professor of Earth and Geographic Sciences at UMass Boston. Nancy Seasholes is an independent scholar.
Columbia Point: A Community History
Guest: Jane Roessner, author, A Decent Place To Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point..
2001-05 (2/4/01)
Making Schools Better
Guest: Ted and Nancy Sizer, lecturers, Harvard Graduate School of Education; authors, The Students Are Watching.
Citizen Schools
Guest: John Werner, Founding Campus Director, Citizen Schools.
2001-04 (1/28/01)
Haiku Today
Guest: Judson Evans, Director, Liberal Arts, Boston Conservatory; Contributor to Haiku Anthology.
Poetry of Home and Exile
Guest: Thomas O'Grady, Director, Irish Studies UMass Boston; author, What Really Matters.
2001-03 (1/21/01)
An Exploration of Religious and Cultural Pluralism
Guest: Joel Grossman, interfaith minister; coordinator, Health Promotion Program, University Health Services, UMass Boston.
The Wampanoags in Massachusetts: From First Contact to Today
Guest: Ramona Peters, Coordinator, Wampanoag Confederation Repatriation Project
2001-02 (1/14/01)
A Portrait of Fenway Park
Guest: Bill Nowlin, co-author, Fenway Saved.
Baseball's History
Guest: Seamus Carney, Society for American Baseball Research
2001-01 (1/07/01)
Minority Access to Health Care
Guest: Carole Upshur, Professor of Public Policy, UMass Boston
Sister Circles
Guest: Lula Christopher, President, Boston Black Women's Health Initiative
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