{"id":2180,"date":"2014-08-25T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduatehumanities\/?page_id=2180"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:03:41","slug":"major-scholar-seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/graduatehumanities\/major-scholar-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Scholar Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Major Scholar Seminar program is a Glenwood Center for Scholarship in the Humanities<\/a> initiative to engage Graduate Humanities students in scholarly activity with major outside scholars and public intellectuals (i.e., individuals who have made important contributions to scholarship, teaching, and\/or public life). Within the framework of small, intensive reading seminars, scholars meet with students over the course of a semester via electronic conference media (e.g., Skype) and at a face-to-face meeting during a campus visit (at which time we also host several public events). Each seminar is listed in our schedule of courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spring 2020<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr. Jonathan Marks, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte<\/p>\n

Jonathan Marks<\/a> is a genetic\/biological anthropologist whose work on the relationships between science, history, and culture has significantly impacted both academic and public discussions across the sciences and humanities. He is perhaps most well-known for his critiques on race, the genome project, and of ahistorical science. He has also been a leading critic in public debates about direct-to-consumer genetic testing and its marketed correlation to heredity. Understanding, for instance, how and why \u201cI\u2019m 45% Irish\u201d is an invalid scientific claim not only requires deeper knowledge of science, but of history and culture as well. Marks has argued persuasively, then, that understanding human problems are best approached through engagement with a liberal arts<\/a> that combines, rather than siloes, the sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n

2020 Major Scholar Seminar: “Mapping Human Diversity: Genetic Testing, Folk Ideologies of Heredity, and Race.” More information is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more about Professor Marks’s take on:<\/p>\n