{"id":44,"date":"2014-01-20T12:08:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T19:48:03","slug":"history-of-mellby-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/history-of-mellby-lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Mellby Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>42nd Annual: 2024-25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Rika Ito, Professor of Asian Studies &#8211; \u00a0<em>\u201cThe Role of Language in Reproducing Imagined \u2018Others\u2019: Critical Views from Anime and Manga.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>41st Annual: 2023-24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Grace Cho, Professor of Psychology &#8211;<em> \u201cPersonal Narratives: How the Stories We Hear and Tell Shape Who We Are.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>40th Annual: 2022-23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Sharon Lane-Getaz, Professor of Statistics and Education &#8211; <\/span><em style=\"font-weight: 400; color: initial; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">&#8220;The Long Winding Road of a Career&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>39th Annual: 2021-22<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ibtesam Al-Atiyat, Sociology &#8211; <em>&#8220;The Neo-Liberal Turn in Higher Education&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gregory Walter, Religion &#8211; <em>&#8220;The Vulnerability of Religion&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>38th Annual: 2020-21<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Umbanhowar, Jr., Biology &amp; Environmental Studies &#8211; <em>Future, Present, Past? Reconstructing the Ecological History of Fire Using Charcoal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>37th Annual: 2019-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Chiappari, Sociology\/Anthropology &amp; Latin American Studies &#8211; <em>Beings, Relations, and Power: The New Animism in the Highlands of Guatemala<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>36th Annual: 2018-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Kwon Dobb, English &#8211; <em>Race, Citizenship Regimes, and Intercountry Adoption from the South Korean Kijich&#8217;on to the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Era of Trump<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Paul Jackson, Chemistry &amp; Environmental Studies &#8211; <em>Conversations with Neighbors: Shifting the Paradigm of Chemical and Environmental Sustainability from Local to Global and Back Again<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>35th Annual: 2017-18<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diana Postlethwaite, English &#8211; <em>The Monster Plot: Memory, Intelligence and Time in Mary Shelley&#8217;s <i>Frankenstein<\/i><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kathy Shea, Biology &amp; Environmental Studies &#8211; <em>Insights from an Ecologist&#8217;s Life<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>34th Annual: 2016-17<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Booth, Religion &#8211; <em>On the Public Usefulness of Theology: Making Sense of North Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;Bathroom Wars&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mary Griep, Art\/Art History &#8211; <em>Descent Into Detail<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>33rd Annual: 2015-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Richey, Mathematics &#8211; Take<em> What You Have Gathered From Coincidence: Understanding and Using Randomness<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Karen Cherewatuk, English &#8211; <em>The Tears of Things: Epic Grief<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>32nd Annual: 2014-15<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca Judge, Economics &#8211; <em>Can Economics Save the Loon?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mary Titus, English &#8211; <em>Thinking Through Things<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>31st Annual: 2013-14<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Le\u00f3n Narv\u00e1ez, Romance Languages &#8211; <em>My Story: Living the Liberal Artes in a Bicultural Context<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Sociology\/Anthropology &#8211; <em>Dilemmas of Faith and Family among Megachurch Evangelicals<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>30th Annual: 2012-13<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jeanine Grenberg, Philosophy &#8211; <em>But that&#8217;s Wrong! Kantian Reflections on the Conflict Between Happiness and Morality<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dan Dressen, Music &#8211; <em>Tone, Text, and Musico-poetic Synthesis<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>29th Annual: 2011-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendell Arneson, Art\/Art History &#8211; <em>Remember to Remember<\/em><\/li>\n<li>David Van Wylen, Biology &#8211; <em>Murmurings of the Heart<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>28th Annual: 2010-11<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Leming, Sociology, &#8220;Praxis Makes Perfect&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak, Asian Studies and Political Science, &#8220;Making Citizens: Lessons From Japan&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>27th Annual:2009-10<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen Peterson Wilson, Theatre, &#8220;Exit Pursued by Ethics&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Paul Zorn, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, &#8220;Analyze This&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>26th Annual: 2008-09<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Wilson, Religion, &#8220;Inventing Jesus&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Een, Music, &#8220;Playing by Ear: A Journey from Classical Violinist to Hardanger Fiddler&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>25th Annual: 2007-08<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Entenmann, History and Asian Studies, &#8220;The Life and Times of Andreas Ly, Chinese Catholic Priest (1693-1774)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anne Walter, Biology, &#8220;Old Questions, New Methods: A Paradigm Shift in How We Think About Cell Membranes and Other Biological Entities&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>24th Annual: 2006-07<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rich DuRocher, English, &#8220;Why Milton Matters&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>David Schodt, Economics, &#8220;Commodity Connections: Latin America and the United States&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>23rd Annual: 2005-06<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Reece, Classics, &#8220;Homer, Jesus and Bass Fishing in Minnesota&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Gary Gisselman, Theatre, &#8220;Sustainability and the Theatre: Landscape, Intimacy, Sex and Violins&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>22nd Annual: 2004-05<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Humke, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, &#8220;A Voyager from the Fourth Dimension&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jolene Barjasteh, French, &#8220;Deceit, Desire, and the Diary: Eug\u00e9nie de Gu\u00e9rin&#8217;s Journal&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>21st Annual: 2003-04<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Wee, English, &#8220;Sport (Mostly Baseball) in Culture and the Curriculum&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Amy Kolan, Physics, &#8220;The Pleasures of Seeing: making Light of the World Around Us&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>20th Annual: 2002-03<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Taliaferro, Philosophy, &#8220;A Defense of a Romantic Education: The Role of Feeling in Personal Development&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>L. DeAne Lagerquist, Religion, &#8220;The Observations of the Observed: Theological Literacy, the Liberal Arts and Global Perspective&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>19th Annual: 2001-02<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nancy Paddleford, Music, &#8220;Ravel and Rice and Beans&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Edmund Santurri, Religion and Philosophy, &#8220;Philosophical Ambiguities in Ostensibly Unambiguous Times: The Moral Evaluation of Terrorism&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>18th Annual: 2000-01<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric S. Cole, Biology, &#8220;Probing Life with Light&#8221; and &#8220;Science, Mystery and the Art of Inquiry&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>James J. Farrell, History, &#8220;It&#8217;s a Mall World After All&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>17th Annual: 1999-2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ed Langerak, Philosophy, &#8220;Civil Disagreement&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mac Gimse, Art, &#8220;Always Learning, Forever Going Home&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>16th Annual: 1998-99<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charles Huff, Psychology, &#8220;An Invitation to Psychology&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Alice Hanson, Music, &#8220;Conserve, Conservative, Conservatory: The Place of Music at St. Olaf&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>15th Annual: 1997-98<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric D. Weitz, History, &#8220;The Century of Terror&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Allen, French, &#8220;Searching for Averroes: Reflections on Language, Culture and Education Incorporating a Global Perspective&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>14th Annual: 1996-97<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James M. May, Classics, &#8220;Cicero&#8217;s Ideal Orator and the St. Olaf Graduate: The Tradition Continues&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Olivia Frey, English, &#8220;What is Education For?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>13th Annual: 1995-96<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fred Stoutland, Philosophy, &#8220;Philosophy, Science and Other Cultural Activity&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Martha Wallace, Mathematics, &#8220;Learning Teaching and Teaching Learning&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>12th Annual: 1994-95<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anton Armstrong, Music, &#8220;How Can I Keep From Singing?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kristina Huber (MacPherson), Library, &#8220;Whither the St. Olaf Libraries?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11th Annual: 1993-94<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. Patrick Dale, Political Science, &#8220;In the Aftermath of the Communist Interlude&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>John Maakestad, Art, &#8220;The Excluded and Included in 20th Century Art&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10th Annual: 1992-93<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Valborg Tollefsrud, Nursing, &#8220;The Human Science of Caring&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Gwen Barnes-Karol, Spanish, &#8220;Preaching, Politics, and Theater in Counter-Reformation Spain&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>9th Annual: 1991-92<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George C. Helling, Sociology, &#8220;For Adults Only&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Fishbeck, Biology, &#8220;Consider the Soybeans&#8230;They Toil Much&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>8th Annual: 1990-91<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Jacobel, Physics, &#8220;Ice and Climate: A Geophysical Perspective on Global Change&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ann Wagner, Dance, &#8220;Dance and its Discontents: American Denominational Opposition&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7th Annual: 1989-90<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert L. Nichols, history, &#8220;Renewing the Spirit&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anantanand Rambachan, Religion, &#8220;Theological Literacy, A Global Perspective and the Challenges of Religious Pluralism&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6th Annual: 1988-89<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ted Johnson, Biology, &#8220;Out of the Laboratory: Challenges and Dilemmas&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Carol Holly, English, &#8220;Restoring Community to the Canon: A Consideration of Nineteenth-Century American Literature&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5th Annual: 1987-88<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samiha Sidhom Peterson, Sociology, &#8220;The Search of Authenticity in an Interdependent World: The Case of the Middle East&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Howard Hong, Philosophy, &#8220;Three Little Words&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4th Annual: 1986-87<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albert E. 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