Professor Mitchell Lerner Re-examines Lyndon Johnson
Faculty Lecture Series Continues
January
7, 2008- Newark, OH- The Ohio State University at Newark’s Faculty Lecture Series will
continue into 2008 when Mitchell Lerner, Ph.D. opens the series on Thursday, February 7.
Dr. Lerner will address
how recently released secret recordings of phone conversations and
high-level meetings that Johnson taped while in the White House have changed
our views of his presidency. The lecture will take place in the Reese Center
Ballroom from 7 – 8 pm, with a reception to follow from 8 – 9 pm. The
lecture series is free and open to the public.
An associate professor of history at Ohio State Newark, Dr. Lerner won the OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching for 2005-06. He is an officer of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and is a Faculty Associate at the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security and Public Policy.
Dr. Lerner has published works in such journals as “Diplomatic History," "Presidential Studies Quarterly," "Diplomacy & Statecraft" and “The Journal of Cold War Studies.” He was the winner of the 2002 John Lyman Award for the Best Work of Naval History and 2002 nominee for the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes for his book “The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.”
The Faculty Lecture Series is hosted by William L. MacDonald, Dean and Director of Ohio State Newark. For more information, please call 740.364.9635 or visit www.newark.osu.edu.