America's Town Hall:To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Constitution Center will bring together former fellows—Holly Brewer, Risa Goluboff, and Lea VanderVelde—to discuss the battle over race and equality across American history, from the Founding to Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Revolution. Edward Hirsch, president of the board of trustees for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, provides introductory remarks. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates the discussion.
This event is presented in partnership with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Participants
- Holly Brewer is the Burke Chair of American Cultural and Intellectual History and associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. She is the author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. Brewer was Guggenheim fellowship in constitutional studies during 2014.
- Risa Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, where she is also the Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and professor of history. She is the author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights and Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Goluboff was Guggenheim fellow in constitutional studies during 2009.
- Lea VanderVelde is the Josephine R. Witte Chair at Iow Law, at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Mrs. Dred Scott, the biography, Redemption Songs, and The Labor Vision of the Thirteenth Amendment. VanderVelde was a Guggenheim fellow in constitutional studies during 2011.
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Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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Edward Hirsch is a poet and critic who has published nine books of poems. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 1985. Since 2002, Hirsch has served as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and in 2003 he became the fourth president of the Foundation.
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