The Student Life Multicultural Center Presents
Making History: Scholarship, Activism, and Social Change
with Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
3:00-4:00p.m.
in the Multicultural Center
Professor and activist Timothy McCarthy will discuss his recently edited anthology on the writings of the late activist-scholar Howard Zinn, The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian." Dr. McCarthy will talk about how Zinn inspired and challenged him to pursue both an academic career and his GLBTIQ/anti-racist activism.
Light refreshments provided.
For more information contact Lynn Itagaki, itagaki.5@osu.edu.
BIOGRAPHY:
Professor McCarthy directs the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. A historian of politics and social movements, he has published four books, The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003),Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006),Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010) and his fifth book, Stonewall’s Children: A Modern Story of Liberation, Loss, and Love, will be published next spring by the New Press. He is also lead editor for the forthcoming three-volume series, Resistance in Words: The Global Literature of Protest (Gale, 2014). A frequent media commentator, McCarthy has appeared on NPR, BBC, Air America, Bloomberg Radio, Radio Free Europe, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now!, and Big Think, and has written for The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, History News Network, Gay and Lesbian Review, In These Times, and The Nation. Dr. McCarthy was a founding member of Barack Obama's National LGBT Leadership Council, has given expert testimony to the Pentagon Comprehensive Working Group on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” serves on the boards of the Harvey Milk Foundation and the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, and is lead research investigator and founding board member for Face Value, a new organization dedicated to eradicating social and cultural stigma against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
