2006 Monroe-Paine Lecture in Public Affairs

WHAT: Hellfire Nation: Politics, Sin and the USA presented by Dr. James Morone as part of the 2006 Monroe-Paine Distinguished Lecture in Public Affairs Series

DAY/TIME: Thursday, November 16, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

LOCATION: Jesse Wrench Auditorium, Memorial Union

TOPIC: James Morone is Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He received his BA from Middlebury College and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Morone has been on the faculty of The University of Chicago, Yale University, and the University of Bremen. Morone’s most recent book, Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History (Yale University Press, 2003), was named book of the month by the History News Network, selected a top ten book of the year by Christianity Today and was been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His Democratic Wish: Popular Participation an the Limits of American Government (Basic Books, 1990, Yale, 1998) won the American Political Science Association’s 1991 Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book on the United States and was named a “notable book of 1991” by the New York Times. Morone has written and co-edited several books and essays, including Healthy, Wealthy and Fair (Oxford University Press, 2005), The Politics of Health Care Reform (Duke University Press, 1994), and Health Care Policy in the USA and Germany (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996). He has written more than one hundred essays on politics, history, and social policy. Morone is past president of both the New England Political Science Association and the Politics and History section of American Political Science Association. He has chaired the editorial board of two scholarly journals: PS: Politics and Political Science and The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (which he edited from 1989 – 1994) and has served on seven editorial boards in the past decade.