April 27, 2004
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Sociologist to Deliver
Van Zelst Lecture
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist and American
Prospect magazine co-founder Paul Starr will deliver the 21st annual
Van Zelst Lecture in Communication Wednesday, May 19, at Northwestern
University.
Titled “The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of
Modern Communications,” his lecture will be presented at
8 p.m. in the auditorium of Annie May Swift Hall, 1920 Campus Drive,
Evanston. It is free and open to the public.
Starr, professor of sociology at Princeton University, has written
extensively on American society, politics and public policy. In
1990, he co-founded The American Prospect, a liberal magazine about
politics, policy and ideas, with former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Robert Reich and writer Robert Kuttner. The magazine sponsors www.movingideas.org,
a Web site about policy.
Starr served
as a senior advisor at the White House in 1993, where he worked
on the formulation of the Clinton health plan.
His 1994 book “The Logic of Health-Care Reform” laid
out the case for a system of universal health insurance and managed
competition.
Starr was
awarded the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the Bancroft
Prize in American History for “The Social Transformation
of American Medicine.” His latest book is “The Creation
of the Media” (Basic Books, 2004).
The Van Zelst Research Chair in Communication was established
at Northwestern's School of Communication in 1981 with an endowment
from Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Van Zelst. It provides a professor
with the opportunity to devote a year to research on an important
issue in communication, and provides funds for the Van Zelst Lecture.
The Van Zelst Lecture is designed to increase our understanding
of significant trends in the field of communication. For further
information about the lecture, call (847) 491-3751. |