Previous Sherman Scholars
2021 The Afterlife of Secrets: A Slave Conspiracy in Antebellum Charleston
Dr. Anne Kerth
Assistant Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Video of Dr. Anne Kerth's Sherman Lecture
Video of the Sherman Lecture Roundtable
2020 From Raised Fists to Bended Knees: Sports, Protest and Global Politics
Dr. Amira Rose Davis
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies
Penn State University
Video of Dr. Amira Rose Davis' Sherman Lecture
Video of the Sherman Lecture Roundtable
2019 The Intimate Enemy: Conservatives and Social War in Modern Brazil
Dr. José Juan Pérez Meléndez
Assistant Professor of History
University of California, Davis
Video of Dr. Pérez Meléndez's Sherman Lecture
Video of Dr. Pérez Meléndez's Sherman Lecture Interview
2018 Monuments and Memory: How The Law Writes History
Dr. Farah Peterson
Associate Professor of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Video of Dr. Peterson's Sherman Lecture
Click here to see the 2018-2019 Sherman Echo Lecture
2017 Uprooting Fascism: Germany and Western Democracy Since Hitler
Dr. Noah Strote
Associate Professor of History
North Carolina State University
Video of Dr. Strote's Sherman Lecture
2016 Dying for God? Martyrdom Across the Ages
Dr. John Soboslai
Assistant Professor of Religion
Montclair State University
Video of Dr. Soboslai's Sherman Lecture
2015 Energy Crisis: Oil and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Dr. Christopher Dietrich
Assistant Professor of History
Fordham University
Video of Dr. Dietrich's Sherman Lecture
2014 Race and The Making of Family in The Atlantic World
Dr. Daniel Livesay
Assistant Professor of History
Drury University
2013 Atrocity & Accountability: International Criminal Tribunals and Peacemaking
Matthew Gillett
Legal Officer for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia, The Hague
2012 A Sacred Space: The Spiritual Life of Soviet Atheism
Dr. Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock
Assistant Professor of History
Wesleyan University
"Belief and Unbelief in Russia" on BBC Radio, with Ernie Rea and Victoria Smolkin
2011: Sunnis and Shiites: A Rivalry that Transformed the Middle East"
Dr.Ibrahim Kaya Sahin
Assistant Professor of Ottoman history
Tulane University
2010: Contagion & Conquest: The United States and the Fight against Disease in the Caribbean
Dr. Espinosa
Assistant professor
Yale University.
2009: Green Revolutions: Agricultural Expansion and the Global Environment in Three Countries
Edward D. Melillo
Assistant Professor Of History and Environmental Studies
Amherst College.
2008: Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Postcolonial State
Ebenezer Obadare
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Kansas
2007: Venezuela and Hugo Chavez: Reform or Revolution?
Jonathan Eastwood
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Washington & Lee University
His recent book is The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela (Florida).
2006: China from Mao to the WTO: Experiments in the Laws of History
Alexander Cook
Columbia and Brown Universities
Dr. Cook is an assistant professor of history at Berkeley. His article, Third World Maoism is forthcoming in Timothy Cheeks volume of essays, a Critical Introduction to Mao. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
2005: What Europe's Emerging Democracies Can Teach Us: Lessons in Historical Division and Integration
Zsuzsa Csergo
George Washington University
Dr. Csergo is currently in the Department of Political Studies, Queens University. Her recent book is: Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell).
2004: Terrorism: Past, Present and Future Trends
R. Kim Cragin, Rand Corporation
Kim Cragin and Andrew Curiel published "Prime Numbers 9/11 + 5" in the Sept. 11, 2006 edition of Foreign Policy.
2003: Imagining an International Community Based on Development and Peace
Amy L. Sayward, Middle Tennessee State University
Dr. Sayward is the Chair of the History Department and author of The Birth of Development (Kent State).
2002: The United States, the Arab World and the Question of Palestine
Michael S. Doran
Visiting Faculty at NYU Wagner
Dr. Doran is now teaching at NYU after serving on the National Security Council, and is the author of Pan-Arabism Before Nasser (Oxford).
Additional Resources
The following Sherman Lectures were published by the UNCW Publishing Laboratory and are available in Randall Library's general collection,
- Alexander C. Cook, "Experiments in the Laws of History: China from Mao to the WTO"
- Zsuzsa Csergo, "What Europe's New Democracies Can Teach Us: Lessons in Cultural Division and Integration"
- Jonathan Eastwood, "Venezuela and Hugo Chavez: Reform or Revolution?"
- Mariola Espinosa, "Contagion and Conquest: The United States and the Fight Against Disease in the Caribbean" (in process)
- Ebenezer Obadare, "Africa Between the Old and the New: The Strange Persistence of the Colonial State"
- Amy L. Sayward, "Imagining an International Community Based on Development and Peace: Thoughts on the Past and on a Future."
