Katherine Carroll, an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, will describe her experiences in Iraq during a Sept. 17 lecture in the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center.
Carroll’s talk, which begins at 4:10 p.m., is titled “The Green Bubble: My Year in Baghdad as an Embedded Professor.” The center is located at 2301 Vanderbilt Place.
Carroll was in Iraq from April 2008 through April 2009 as a participant in the Human Terrain Systems Program, a United States military plan that places social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan. During the talk, she will reflect on her experiences and show slides from her yearlong sabbatical.
“We look forward to hearing Katherine’s reflections on her extraordinary opportunity to experience what was
happening with the American soldiers in Iraq,” said Mona Frederick, executive director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. The center is sponsoring the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
Carroll, who earned her doctorate at the University of Virginia, is co-teaching a humanities course for Vanderbilt undergraduate students called “The War in Iraq” this fall. Her areas of research include comparative politics and the Middle East. She is the author of Business as Usual? Economic Reform in Jordan (Lexington Press).
For more information on Carroll’s lecture, call (615) 343-6060.
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