Sunday Scholar Series
May 4, 2008
4:50 - 5:50 pm (time approximate after performance)

COST: $10 ($5 for TimeLine subscribers)

• A one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive at the theatre by 4:45 pm, check in at the Box Office, and enter the theater after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel on May 4 will be moderated by TimeLine Board Member Peter H. Kuntz (Managing Director, Programs and Production - Chicago Humanities Festival) and will feature panelists:

Margaret Rung
Rung teaches American history and directs the Center for New Deal Studies at Roosevelt University. Before coming to Roosevelt, she taught at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, and during the 2000-2001 academic year, she served as a visiting Fulbright lecturer at the University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. A specialist in 20th Century political history, she is also interested in urban and labor history. Her book, Servants of the State: Managing Diversity and Democracy in the Federal Civil Service, 1933-1953, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. She has also written numerous articles concerning the construction of the civil service, Richard Nixon's relationship to bureaucracy, and the historiography of the Progressive Era and New Deal.

James Wolfinger
Wolfinger is an assistant professor of history and education at DePaul University. His work focuses on issues of race, labor and politics in 20th Century America. He recently published his first book, Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love, with the University of North Carolina Press. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including Labor, Pennsylvania History, and a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Urban History. He is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Building the Black Metropolis, which analyzes how black Chicagoans built their community in the 1920s. At DePaul, Wolfinger teaches various courses in 20th Century U.S. history, including those focusing on the New Deal, labor issues, the civil rights movement, and post-World War II America.