Lenna Visiting Professors
1990 - Robert Lax
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Robert Lax became St. Bonaventure
University’s first Reginald A. Lenna Visiting Professor in 1990.
During a special convocation, St. Bonaventure awarded Lax with an
honorary doctorate. Lax attended Columbia University
in the 1930s. After college, he
worked in a variety of jobs, as a tutor, writing advertising copy, teaching
college English and as an editor and writer.
He worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, was a reviewer for
Time, a freelancer for Parade, and even worked in the script department of
the Samuel Goldwyn Studio in
Hollywood. Later, he was an editor for the
short-lived Parisian literary journal New Story, a cofounder and editor of the
catholic culture magazine Jubilee, and the founder/publisher of the poetry
broadside PAX. |
| Although Lax had
published many poems in various magazines and journals it was not until he met
the graphic artist Emil Antonucci in the 1950's that his publishing career began
to take shape. Antonucci began to
publish materials by Lax in small press editions under the imprint of the Hand
Press and later Journeyman Books. The
most important of these early publications was Circus of the Sun (1959), a cycle
of poems about Lax’s travels with the Cristiani Family Circus through western Canada
in 1949. Another milestone was the
publication of New Poems (1962) which became somewhat of a manifesto of Lax’s
simplified, pared down poetic line. Other
important publications of this time were "sea & sky" (1965) and
"black &
white" (1966) both appearing in Lugano Review.
A major retrospective of Lax’s materials was mounted at the Neue
Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart
in 1985. In 1987 Lax began an
archive at St. Bonaventure University. The
bibliography of Lax’s published writings, and works based on his writings,
runs to well over 500 items ranging from single poems, to pamphlets, to books,
and includes graphic art, film, video, photography, and performance art.
He was as well known in art circles as he was in literary ones, and
perhaps at times better known in Europe than he was in America.
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1991 - Dr. Stanley Stewart
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Stanley N. Stewart, a professor of
English in the
College
of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at
University
of
California Riverside, was the Lenna Visiting Professor in September of 1991.
He earned his English B.A.(1956), M.A.(1958), and Ph.D.(1961) at UCLA.
Stanley Stewart is the
author of numerous books and articles, including The Enclosed
Garden: The Tradition and the Image in 17th-Century Poetry (University of
Wisconsin Press 1966), The Expanded Voice: The Art of Thomas Traherne
(Huntington Library 1970), and George Herbert (G.K. Hall 1976).
He is coauthor, with Bernd Magnus and Peter Mileur, of Nietzsche's
Case: Philosophy as/and Literature (Routledge 1992) and, with James Riddell,
of Jonson's Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism, (Duquesne
University Press, 1995). Stewart is
also the coeditor of The Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of
Elizabeth, James, and Charles, published by University
of
Nevada Press, he serves on the editorial boards of John Donne Journal and
Cithara: Essays
in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. And
he is a former Guggenheim and Mellon Fellow.
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1993 - Jocelyn N. Hilgarth
Professor Hillgarth, of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the
University of Toronto, came to St. Bonaventure in February 1993. She has
taught history at a number of universities including Harvard, Princeton, The
University of Texas, Boston College, and the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Author of many books on the Middle Ages she lectured on the
conversion of Western Europe to Catholicism; Spain's three religions-Catholic,
Jewish and Muslim; and on the life of Raymon Lull, a 14th century Franciscan
missionary.
1993 - Alan & Barbara Mackenzie
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The Mackenzies were at St. Bonaventure in April of 1993. They lectured
on journalism. Alan Mackenzie designed the first graduate diploma program
in journalism in the United Kingdom. The Scottish Centre for Journalism
Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow was a change from the usual
pattern of apprenticeship for British journalists. Barbara Mackenzie
lectured at the Scottish Centre. She had taught and done research at 13
American universities and worked as a reporter and editor. The Mackenzies
also lectured on Scottish culture; nationalism in the context of the changes in
Europe; the British and Scottish press; British broadcast journalism and the
Scottish view of America and Americans. |
1994 - Frederick Rosen
1995 - Anne La Bastille
Anne LaBastille is an American author and ecologist. She
is the author of Woodswoman, Beyond Black Bear Lake,
Woodswoman III, Woodswoman IV,
Assignment:Wildlife, Women of the Wilderness, The
Wilderness World of Anne LaBastille, Mama Poc, and Jaguar
Totem and other works, including over 150 published
articles. LaBastille is also a noted wildlife photographer
and her work has appeared in many nature publications. She has
been honored by the National Wildlife Federation and the
Explorers Club for her pioneering work in wildlife ecology both
in the United States and in Guatemala. She received her
doctorate degree from Cornell University. She has given
workshops and lectures for over forty years and served on many
conservation organizations in the Adirondack Mountains of New
York. She was also a certified New York State Guide. LaBastille
traveled around the world and worked with many organizations to
study and alleviate the destructive effects of acid rain on
lakes and wildlife.
1996 - Philip Wexler
Dr. Wexler, dean of the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and
Human Development at the University of Rochester through June 2000, has
published a number of books on the sociology of education and critical
theory. His books include Holy Sparks: Social Theory, Education and
Religion; Social Analysis of Education: After the New Sociology; Critical
Social Psychology; The Sociology of Education: Beyond Equality; and Becoming
Somebody: Toward a Social Psychology of School.
1997 - Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
Dr. Mazzotta, among the leaders in Dante scholarship, is The Charles C.
& Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Italian Language and Literature at
Yale. At the time of his Lenna Visiting Professorship, he had published
several books, including Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge, The
Worlds of Petrarch and Re-Mapping the World: Vico's Poetic Thought.
He has also written essays about every century of Italian literature. A
native of Curinga, Italy, Mazzotta received bachelor's and master's degrees from
the University of Toronto and a doctorate from Cornell. He has also served
as a Guggenheim Fellow, Yale Senior Fellow, and National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellow.
1998 - John Hanchette
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In 1979, John Hanchette won the Outstanding Achievement Award for a National
Reporter for his work on the Pauline Fathers, a story of misuse of funds and a
succeeding cover-up in the Catholic Church. The work won him a Pulitzer
Prize. Hanchette joined the Niagara Falls Gazette in 1964.
After a period with The Buffalo Evening News, he returned to Niagara Falls as
managing editor. He was named Gannett News Service Florida bureau chief in
1977 and a Washington correspondent in 1981. He was named a GNS managing
editor in 1981 and managing editor of The Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock in
1988. He rejoined GNS in 1992 as a national correspondent and retired from
GNS in December 2001, returning to St. Bonaventure as a faculty member in the
School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2002. |
1999 Spring Semester - Wade Clark Roof
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Dr. Wade Clark Roof, a nationally known expert on religion and society,
discussed the state of religion in
America
at the turn of the century. Among
Roof’s numerous accomplishments are 12 books and scholarly publications.
He has also published over 50 journal articles.
Roof has received several fellowships, grants, and awards for his work.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Wofford
College
, a master of divinity degree from
Yale
University, and a master’s degree and Doctorate in sociology from the
University
of North Carolina. |
1999 Fall Semester - Robert McNeeley
Bob McNeely, the former personal photographer for President Bill
Clinton, was the Lenna Visiting Professor of the fall semester in 1999.
McNeely visited several journalism, political science and theology
classes to share his experiences with students.
He also attended a retreat at Mt.
Irenaeus
and dined with Betty Lenna. During
his address to the St. Bonaventure community, he presented more than 100
photographs from the 70,000 rolls of film he took in his time with the
Clinton
administration.
2000 - Margaret Hermann
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Dr. Margaret Hermann, St.
Bonaventure’s Lenna Visiting Professor for the fall semester of 2000,
received her doctorate in psychology from
Northwestern University
and taught at Princeton and
Ohio State
universities before going to Syracuse
University
in 1999. Currently, she is
the Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs at the
Maxwell School and director of that school’s Global Affairs Institute.
She was president of the International Society of Political Psychology
from 1998 to 1999, as well as the International Studies Association from
1998 to 1999. Hermann has
also edited two journals, Political Psychology and International Studies
Review.
In 1990, she helped develop the Summer Institute in Political Psychology
and acted as co-director for nine summers. Most
of her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision
making, and the comparative study of foreign policy.
Hermann has written books on the subjects and published in a variety of
journals from the American Political Science Review to the International
Studies Quarterly to Foreign Policy. In
addition to her publications, Hermann has been involved in developing
ways of assessing the leadership styles of heads of state around the
world as well as leadership training exercises for executive directors
for non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations.
She has developed leadership profiles of 130 world leaders.
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2001 - Dr. Ludmila Kovalskaya
Dr. Ludmila Kovalskaya, St. Bonaventure’s Lenna Visiting Professor for 2001
presented public lectures on increasing understanding between the
United States
and
Russia
though cultural interaction. Kovalskaya
is a professor of theory and practice of the English language at
Adygh
State
University
, Maikop,
Republic
of
Adygheya
,
Russian Federation
. She received a doctorate in
linguistics from
Pyatigorsk Linguistic University
,
Russian Federation
. Kovalskaya has published 15
articles on various aspects of linguistics and intercultural communication.
Her professional interests include intercultural communication,
computer-mediated communication, language, and gender.
2002 - Laurence Hauptman
Laurence Hauptman was St. Bonaventure’s Lenna
Visiting Professor in 2002. Hauptman,
a professor of the SUNY New Paltz History Department, is the leading authority
on the history of Post-Colonial Iroquois. He
has been referred to as the most productive historian of Iroquois studies.
Hauptman has authored 13 books about Native Americans and their tribal
history. He is a two-time recipient
of the Peter Doctor Memorial Award, the highest honor that can be bestowed by
the Iroquois for distinguished service beneficial to the image of the Indians.
In September of 1999, the SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Hauptman a
distinguished professor, the highest rank that can be achieved by a State
University
educator.
2003 - Sophia Hillan
Dr. Sophia Hillan was, from 1993
– 2003, the Associate Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s
University Belfast and is presently Academic Director of its International
Summer School in Irish Studies. She
was the 2003 Lenna Visiting Professor at St. Bonaventure University.
She recently co-directed the Michael McLaverty Centenary Colloquium.
As an author herself, she was runner-up to John Arden in the Royal
Society of Literature’s first V.S. Pritchett Memorial Award in 1999.
She has a collection of short stories; one appeared in the Faber
Book of Irish Short Stories in March of 2005.
2005 Spring Semester - Richard Benedetto
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Richard Benedetto, USA
Today White House correspondent, was the university's Lenna Visiting
Professor from March 15 – 24. A
native of
Utica,
N.Y., Benedetto graduated from
Syracuse
University’s
Utica
College
and holds a master of arts degree in journalism from
Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication.
He began his career in journalism with The Buffalo Evening News, and also
worked at government reporting positions with the Utica Daily Press and Utica
Observer-Dispatch. He later worked
in the Albany
bureau of Gannett News Service covering state government/politics during the
Gov. Huge Carey administration. He
was a founding member of USA Today, joining the newspaper in 1982, prior to its
first edition. During his career, he
has covered the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton
and George W. Bush. Syracuse University awarded Benedetto an honorary doctorate in 1992, and in 1998 he was honored
with the National Italian-American Foundation Media Award for projecting a
positive image for Italian Americans.
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2005 Fall Semester - Dr. Michael Shapiro
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Shapiro received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the
University
of Rochester
in 1959, and a master’s degree from Columbia
University
in 1960. He also attended the Shakespeare Institute at the
University
of
Birmingham
in
England
in 1960, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University
in 1967. Shapiro has written several books on the Holocaust and
Elizabethan drama, with an emphasis on Shakespeare, the most recent being,
“Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages.”
Shapiro has also written numerous articles and reviews. He served as
Scholar-In-Residence at both
Millikin
University (1990), and Southern Oregon State College (1992). |
2005 - Second Fall Semester Dr. Alan Dobson
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Alan Dobson, who is director of the Transatlantic European and American
Studies Institute at the
University
of
Dundee, as well as chair of the prestigious Transatlantic Studies Association, has
written numerous books, which analyze the changes in transatlantic relations
from the Cold War to the present. Due
to his groundbreaking work in this field, Dobson has received numerous
prestigious appointments, including a posting as a senior research fellow at the
Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1997, being made a fellow of the Royal Historical
Society, and membership in the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Dobson was St. Bonaventure’s second Lenna Visiting Professor of the
fall semester in 2005. He gave
several lectures on the significance of these changes in America’s transatlantic relations. Also
during his stay, he contributed to classroom discussions in history, political
science, business, and English.
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2006 - Alan Weisman
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Alan Weisman, recently retired from CBS News after working as a writer
and producer at the network for more than 25 years, was the university's Lenna
Visiting Professor from September 18-29. He is the author of Lone
Star: The Long Goodbye of Dan Rather, which was published in June 2006. |
2008 - Jack Shaheen
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Dr. Shaheen, a recipient of two Fulbright teaching awards,
regularly appears on national TV programs such as “Nightline,” “Good
Morning America,” “48 Hours,” and “The Today Show.”
His writings include more than 300 essays in publications such
as Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as
chapters on media stereotypes in 36 college textbooks.
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2009 - Dan Barry
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Barry graduated from SBU in 1980 with a bachelor of arts
degree in journalism and mass communication and was named the 1994
Alumnus of the Year. He is the author of “This Land,” a well-read
weekly feature column that appears every Monday on the first page of the
New York Times national section and takes him to every corner of the
United States.
He was on reporting teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes. In 1994,
he and four other members of an investigative team for the
Providence Journal-Bulletin, in Rhode Island, won a Pulitzer for a
series of articles about corruption in that state’s court system. The
series led to widespread judicial reform and to the criminal
indictment of the state Supreme Court chief justice. In 2002, Barry was
a member of The New York Times team awarded a Pulitzer for coverage
of the World Trade Center disaster and its aftermath.
Barry has written two books, the first titled “Pull Me Up: A
Memoir,” which has been favorably compared to Frank McCourt’s
best-selling “Angela’s Ashes,” and the second, which was published
a year ago, titled “City Lights: Stories About New York.” |
2009 - Patrick James
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Dr. Patrick James, director of the Center for
International Studies at the University of Southern California, is one of the world’s top scholars in
international relations and comparative politics.
James is the recipient of numerous fellowships and
awards, including the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University, the Milton R. Merrill Chair from
Political Science at Utah State University, the Lady Davis Professorship
of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Thomas Enders Professorship
in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar
award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., the Eaton Lectureship
at Queen’s University in Belfast, the Quincy Wright Scholar Award from
the Midwest International Studies Association, and the Distinguished
Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis award from the International Studies
Association.
James is the author of 11 books and has published
more than 100 articles and book chapters. He is president of the
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States and vice president
of the International Studies Association.
James earned his doctorate from the University of
Maryland, College Park. |
2010 - William M. Shea
