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The William L. Duren '26 Professorship Program
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Overview
The William L. Duren '26 Professorship Program was established
and endowed with a generous gift from Professor William L.
Duren '26, M.A. '28, Ph.D., LL.D. honoris causa '59, professor
emeritus of mathematics and former dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Each year, up to four tenured members of the faculty in the liberal
arts and sciences serve as Duren Professors. Duren Professors
enjoy an especially close relationship to the Newcomb-Tulane
College during their tenure in the program. They are provided
with additional resources that permit them to adopt distinctive
pedagogies (team-teaching, use of auxiliary materials or electronic
information technologies, and others) and to arrange for and
facilitate distinctive kinds of meaningful interactions with
students enrolled in the courses they teach as Duren Professors.
More detailed information about the terms and conditions of appointment,
responsibilities of Duren Professors, and perquisites can be
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Duren Professors 2009-2010
Professor Paula Morris, English: “Visual Storytelling: An Introduction to Screenwriting”
Professor Morris’s new course will be one of the four required courses in the new Digital Media Production coordinate major, a joint initiative of the departments of English, Communication, Art, Music, Theatre and Dance. Because of the multidisciplinary nature of this course, Prof. Morris will invite colleagues from other departments to talk to her students and conduct in-class exercises—for example, on the use of music in film, or the demands of acting for the screen versus the stage. In conjunction with her class, Prof. Morris plans to organize a cocurricular lecture series, inviting film industry professionals to speak to our students at open events. Potential guests include David Simon, creator of The Wire and the new HBO series Treme; Neal Baer, a former writer, director and executive producer of ER, now an executive producer of Law and Order: SVU; and film executive Sanford Panitch, a Tulane alumnus who runs Fox International Productions.
Professor Jonathan Pritchett , Economics: “The Economics of Slavery”
Professor Pritchett’s seminar on the economics of slavery is a capstone class for the Economics major. Topics include the slave trade, profitability, the efficiency of slave labor, emancipation, slavery’s effect on economic growth, the treatment of slaves (diets, housing, and medical care), and demographic effects of slavery. As a Duren professor, Prof. Pritchett plans to develop a cocurricular lecture series featuring leading scholars on the economics of slavery, including Prof. Stanley Engerman of Rochester University, Prof. Richard Steckel of Ohio State University, Prof. Jenny Wahl of Carleton University, and Prof. Gavin Wright of Stanford University.
Professor Carol McMichael Reese , Architecture: “City I”
Professor Reese is teaching an inter-disciplinary course that serves as one of two foundational courses for the new urban studies minor, launched in 2006. The first section of City I is a history of the physical morphology of cities from the ancient world to those of the nineteenth century. The second section covers urban social ecology, and the final section covers a variety of topics on the twentieth-century city, including race, poverty, the birth of the city planning profession, the modern development of urban infrastructural systems, technological advances, and new city forms. Prof. Reese will organize a series of guest lecturers in conjunction with City I, and also plans to link the class to a national conference that will take place in October: “New Orleans under Reconstruction, the Crisis of Planning.”
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