Come listen to three professors on campus talk about how their research has contributed towards the “global reach of Jesuit education” on Tuesday, April 17 at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room. Read more about the professors and research that will be discussed:
Christopher Lee, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies Research: The importance and uses of a South Asian poetry tradition among two diverse groups: working class weavers in North India and South Asian expatriates in the Arabian Gulf. Lee has spent seven months in India and five months in the Gulf conducting ethnographic research for this project, funded by a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship.
Mary O’Sullivan, PhD – Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research: “Parasitic Diseases in Developing Nations.” “Neglected diseases” are a group of infections that occur in low-income populations in developing countries and are estimated to impact the lives of billions and threaten the lives of millions. However, in contrast to the “big three” diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria) which receive widespread public attention and larger research funding, there has been less attention focused on the problems of “neglected diseases.”
Robert Butler, PhD – Professor of English
Research: Service work in what Michael Harrington once called “the other America,” communities separated from mainstream life by extreme poverty and various forms of social injustice. Butler’s teaching career began with federal anti-poverty programs in rural Mississippi and Alabama and has continued for the past 35 years with working in college programs at three Western New York prisons.
Alpha Sigma Nu is the honor society of Jesuit institutions of higher education. For more information, please email Jake Castiglia at castigl2@canisius.edu or Fr. Patrick Lynch at lynchp@canisius.edu.
Submitted by: Marilyn Tokarczyk, administrative associate, religious studies
