Sunday Scholar Series
November 19, 2006
4 - 5 pm (time approximate after performance)

Please note that tickets to the 2 pm performance of The Children's Hour on this date are sold out. However, you do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. We would appreciate a call at (773) 281-8463 x24 to let us know that you plan to attend.

• A one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play
• The panel discussion is a free event
• Call (773) 281-8463 and mention "Sunday Scholars Series"

The Sunday Scholars panel on November 19 will be moderated by TimeLine Board Member Peter H. Kuntz (Managing Director, Programs and Production - Chicago Humanities Festival) and will feature panelists:

Colleen Doody
An assistant professor of history at DePaul University, Doody's research and teaching interests include a focus on 20th Century America. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Sharon P. Holland
Holland is associate professor of African-American studies, American studies and gender studies at Northwestern University. Her teachings are in the areas of sexuality/gender studies, critical race theory, Afro-Native studies and cultural studies. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. in English and African-American Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association in 2002. She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Tiya Miles (professor of American culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006). Her current projects include a novella (How Bubba the Socrates got to be Neither); a play (Killing Martha) and a second monograph “The Erotic Life of Racism.”

Jonathan Sherman
Sherman is a licensed clinical psychologist. He received his doctorate degree in psychology from Northwestern University, where his is a clinical instructor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. He has a special interest in working with adolescent clients and their families.