Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Award-winning Tennessee author and historian Wilfred M. McClay will be featured Wednesday [Jan. 28] during a public program at Mississippi State.
"The Burden of the Humanities" will be the title of his 4:30 p.m. presentation in the first-floor Dawg House lounge of Colvard Student Union. Sponsored by the university's College of Arts and Sciences, the program is another in its Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Lecturer series.
McClay holds the Sun Trust Chair of Excellence in Humanities University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. In 1995, he received the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for "The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America"--a provocative study of the long-standing national tension between individualism and social cohesion.
Currently, McClay is working on a biography of American sociologist David Riesman, as well as editing "Pieces of a Dream: Historical and Critical Essays," a collection of his own essays. His earlier other works include "The Student's Guide to U.S. History" and "Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America."
McClay, a Johns Hopkins University doctoral graduate, has been a member of the UTC faculty since 1999.
For more on the Institute for the Humanities program, telephone 662-325-2646.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.