LACI Research Exhibit
April 13 noon to 3:30 p.m.
EHS and Hoover
Senior research teams present their projects on the future of
the American Dream.
Chapels
Every Mon & WED @ 10:40 a.m.
Bauman Auditorium
The following Chapel speakers are particularly relevant to this topic:
Feb. 2-4 Leroy Barber
President, Mission Year
Feb. 9 Shane Claiborne
A Simple Way Community
Author, Irresistible Revolution
Guest Worship Leader, Aaron Strumple
Feb. 16 Dawn Herzog Jewell
Author, Escaping the Devil’s Bedroom: Sex
Trafficking, Global Prostitution & the Gospel’s
Redeeming Power
Feb. 23 Dan Kimball
Author, They Like Jesus But Not the Church;
Vintage Christianity
Apr. 6 Chris Heuertz
Word Made Flesh
Author, Simple Spirituality
Apr. 15 Richard Twiss
Co-founder, Wiconi International
Member of Sicangu Band & the Rosebud
Lakota/Sioux Tribe
Caitlin Corning and Elizabeth Todd
Directors, Liberal Arts: Critical Issues Program
503-554-2673 or 503-554-2678
ccorning@georgefox.edu
detodd@georgefox.edu
georgefox.edu/laci
LIBERAL ARTS: CRITICAL ISSUES
THE FUTURE OF THE
AMERICAN DREAM
SPRING LECTURE SERIES
LECTURE SCHEDULE
H O O V E R
10 5
4 : 4 0 - 5 : 3 0 , 7: 0 0 - 7: 5 0
LACI Lecture Series
Jan 26 Kerry Irish
Crafting the Dream: the Development of an American Construct
Kerry Irish is a professor of history and has
been at George Fox University since 1993.
He received PhD from the University of
Washington. His expertise is twentieth-century
American military, political and diplomatic
history, and history of the American West.
Feb 2 Leroy Barber
Analyzing the Dream: Urban Experience in America
Leroy Barber is currently the president of
Mission Year, a national urban initiative
introducing 18-29 year olds to missional
and communal living in city centers for one
year. Rev. Barber is the pastor of Community
Fellowships Church and was chosen as a
contributor to UnChristian: What a New
Generation Thinks About Christianity and
Why It Matters.
Feb 9 Steve Sherwood
Inheriting the Dream: The Millennial Generation
Steve Sherwood serves as the director of
George Fox’s partnership with Young Life.
He received his DMin from George Fox
Evangelical Seminary and has been at Fox
since 2004. Steve’s teaching interests and
expertise center around youth ministry,
emerging theology, postmodern culture,
theological interaction with pop culture and
narrative theology.
Feb 16 TBA
March 9 Pat Stone
Feb 23 Cynthia Calongne
and Brent Wilson
Pat Stone received his PhD from Biola
University in 1978 and has taught at the
undergraduate and graduate levels in
the U.S. and Kenya.  He has served as a
policy advisor for the United States Senate
Committee on Veterans Affairs and worked
as a psychologist in private practice for 22
years specializing in the treatment of military veterans.  He
served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam and was wounded in
combat 1970.
Constructing the Dream:  Civil Society and the Role of Government
Revisioning the Dream: Technology and Community
Cynthia Calongne, also known as Lyr Lobo
in Second Life, joined Colorado Technical
University’s Computer Science Department
in 1996. For thirteen years, she worked
as a software engineer in support of Air
Force Space Command and on Capitol Hill
in Washington, D.C. Her research includes
games and game-based rubrics in education and virtual worlds.
In 2005, she completed an artificial intelligence project for San
Juan College and the National Science Foundation.
Brent Wilson is an assistant professor of
computer and information science and has
been at George Fox since 1994. He is working
on his PhD from Colorado Technical University.
He is involved in the Center for Mobile
Computing at George Fox. His expertise
includes programming and specialty applications.
March 2 Dirk Barram
Managing the Dream:  Middle Class America
Dirk Barram is a professor of business
and has been at George Fox since 1986.
He received his PhD from Michigan State
University. His areas of interest include
organizational development, employee
motivation, team building, communication,
and human resource development.
Fighting for the Dream:  Veterans and Disabilities
March 16 Andre Wang
Seeking the Dream:  Immigration Law and Policy
Andre Wang is a attorney who specializes
in U.S. immigration law with an emphasis
in employment and family-based cases. He
is member of the American Immigration
Lawyers Association and a Board Member for
the Portland-Suzhou Sister City Association.
March 30 Melanie Hulbert
Sharing the Dream:  Demographic Shifts and
Multicultural America
Melanie Hulbert is an assistant professor
of sociology and has been at George Fox
since 2003. She received her PhD from the
University at Albany, State University of
New York. Melanie specializes in sociology
of work and gender issues and family. She
also has interest in race/ethnicity themes.