Dan P. McAdams, psychologist and educator
Opening Convocation of the 162nd Academic Year
11 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, Weaver Chapel
"My research is of direct relevance to the students I teach ... the main focus is on how adults make sense of their lives." Dan P. McAdams Dan P. McAdams is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is also Director of the Foley Center for the Study of Lives. The author of 12 books and more than 100 scientific articles and chapters, McAdams was awarded the Henry A. Murray Award in Psychology for the study of personality and human lives in 1993.
Michael Eric Dyson, scholar and best-selling author
“Dr. King for the 21st Century”
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation
11 a.m., Monday, Jan. 15, 2007
Weaver Chapel
Michael Eric Dyson is a prolific author, scholar, public intellectual,
ordained minister, media commentator and talk radio show host. In his 13
books in 13 years, Dyson has taken on some of the toughest and most
controversial issues of our day, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy, the virtues and crises of hip-hop culture, racial conflict and black identity, and, most recently, the political and racial fall-out from Hurricane Katrina. Dyson is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
