Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture Series

Each year, a selection committee conducts a national competition to select the Sherman Emerging Scholar.

The History Department hosts the Sherman Scholar on campus, during which time they visit UNCW classes, provide interviews to the local press, meet with faculty members and present a public lecture for the Wilmington community. The lecture is followed by a roundtable discussion of its themes featuring eminent researchers. All lectures are published by the UNCW Publication Laboratory and distributed to UN Repository Libraries.

UNCW Department of History Presents: 

An Immigrant Invasion? The Roots of Modern Nativism and the Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights 

Twenty-Second Annual Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture Series 
www.uncw.edu/Sherman 

Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 
7:30 p.m., Warwick Center  

Dr. Eladio Bobadilla 
University of Pittsburgh 

Roundtable to follow Thursday, Oct. 19, 3:30 p.m., James Hall Auditorium 

Free and open to the public. 

El texto de la conferencia estará disponible en español. 

Accommodations for disabilities may be requested by contacting wrightm@uncw.edu at least seven days prior to the event. 

UNCW is an EEO/AA institution. Questions regarding UNCW’s Title IX compliance should be directed to titleIX@uncw.edu.

UNCW Department of History Presents:

The Sherman Emerging Scholar Roundtable 
The Roots of Modern Nativism and the Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 
3:30 p.m., James Hall Auditorium 

Free and open to the public. 

Accommodations for disabilities may be requested by contacting wrightm@uncw.edu at least seven days prior to the event. 

Participants: 

Dr. Eladio Bobadilla, Sherman Emerging Scholar 
University of Pittsburgh 

Dr. Lori Flores 
Stony Brook University 

Dr. Brian Behnken 
Iowa State University 

Dr. Benny Andres 
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 

Moderator: Dr. Eva Mehl 
University of North Carolina Wilmington 

UNCW is an EEO/AA institution. Questions regarding UNCW’s Title IX compliance should be directed to titleIX@uncw.edu.  

To request an accessible copy of any information on this page, contact the History Department at wrightm@uncw.edu. 

The endowed lecture series provides a platform for young thinkers with compelling insights into the connections between the past and the present. There are few academic venues where a promising early scholar is given the opportunity to be center stage to share their intriguing ideas with a university audience and the wider community, including concerned citizens and fellow lifelong learners.

How such an original lecture series came to be is a story not only of the generosity but also of the curiosity and the creative thinking of the Sherman family.

Most of us in the History Department at UNCW fondly remember Virginia and Derrick Sherman, a pair of intellectually vibrant retirees who moved to Wilmington and came to value our department's public programs and academic work. Virginia devoted herself to the UN Association while Derrick enrolled in our history classes well into his 90s.

Such interesting people turned out to have a pair of equally interesting children, and it is Philip Sherman and Ann Sherman-Skiba, and their spouses, who founded the Sherman Lecture endowment to honor their parents. Philip and his wife Birgitta continue to contribute to the success of this lectureship and to the Sherman program through their continued interest in the series and ongoing friendship with UNCW's History Department.