2001-52 (12/30/01)

A Joyful Noise repeated from October 2001

Deborah Weisgall, author, A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers.

Reviving Cambodian Performing Arts repeated from October 2001

Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodian Master Performers Program.

2001-51 (12/23/01)

Dreaming of a White Christmas

Kathleen Sands, contributor to Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture.

Family Ritual and Consumer Culture

Liz Pleck, associate professor of history, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; author, Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals.

2001-50 (12/16/01)

Plasticware Empire: The Tupperware Story

Laurie Kahn Levitt, independent filmmaker.

Age of Homespun

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth.

2001-49 (12/9/01)

Antiquarian Society

Ellen Dunlap, Executive Director, American-Antiquarian Society.

Pioneer Valley "Herstory"

Jocyce Berkman,

2001-48 (12/2/01)

Handel's Messiah

John Finney, Associate Conductor and Chorus Master, Handel and Haydn Society.

Kwaanza!

De Ama Battle, Founder and Director, Art of Black Dance and Music.

2001-47 (11/25/01)

Changing Lives Through Literature

Robert Kane, Associate Justice Superior Court; Bob Waxler, professor UMass Dartmouth.

Shakespeare Behind Bars repeated from July 2001

Jean Trounstine, professor of Humanities, Middlesex Community College; author, Shakespeare Behind Bars.

2001-46 (11/18/01)

Mexican Day of the Dead

Ann Blum, assistant professor, department of Hispanic Studies, UMass Boston

Women and the Kitchen

Mary McFeely, author, Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?

2001-45 (11/11/01)

North Pole Legacy

S. Allen Counter, author North Pole Legacy: Black, White, and Eskimo.

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2001-44 (11/4/01)

Poetry of Protest repeated from June 2001

MartÃn Espada, Poet Laureate, Northampton, Massachusetts; Professor of English, UMass Amherst; author, A Mayan Astronomer In Hell's Kitchen.

Cuban/American: And the 90 Miles In Between repeated from June 2001

Melinda Lopez, writer, performer.

2001-43 (10/28/01)

On Witches and Stone-Throwing Devils

Emerson Baker, Associate Professor of History, Salem State College.

Lucy Stone

Judith Black, storyteller.

2001-42 (10/21/01)

A Teacher's Memoir

Daniel Robb, author, Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working With Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir.

Mental Health Needs of Women Transitioning Off Welfare

Carol Cardozo and Lisa Sussman, McCormack Institute, UMass Boston.

2001-41 (10/14/01)

A Joyful Noise

Deborah Weisgall, author, A Joyful Noise: Claiming the Songs of My Fathers.

Reviving Cambodian Performing Arts

Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodian Master Performers Program.

2001-40 (10/7/01)

Privacy and the Internet

Richard Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Privacy Foundation.

Online Education

Jack M. Wilson, CEO of UMass Online.

2001-39 (9/30/01)

Sexual Intelligence

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn, authors of Sexual Intelligence; professors of psychology, UMass Boston.

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2001-38 (9/23/01)

A Woman's Works Is Never Done

Noni Pratt and Merry Conway, Co-Creators of "A Woman's Work Is Never done: A House of Curiosities.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Alan Banks, supervisory Park Ranger, Frederick Law Olmsted, National Historic Site.

2001-37 (9/16/01)

The Court Education Project

Maria Karagianis, Executive Director, James D. St. Clair Court Education Project.

Workable Peace Project

Stacie Nicole Smith, Co-Director, Workable Peace Project.

2001-36 (9/9/01)

Culture as Power

Jane Sapp, musician, cultural worker, and educator.

The Boston Folk Festival

Dick Pleasants, Folk Radio personality

2001-35 (9/2/01)

Fair Housing

David Harris, Executive Director, Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston

Making Education a Right for All

Carol Desouza, ADA/504 compliance officer, UMass Boston; Executive Director, International Association on Higher Education and Disability.

2001-34 (8/26/01)

Lucy Stone

Judith Black, storyteller.

Charles Sumner: Massachusetts's Anti-Slavery Senator

Michael Pierson, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell.

2001-33 (8/19/01)

The Mirror Project

Roberto Arevalo, media educator; founder and director of The Mirror Project.

Give Us Your Poor

John McGah, staff member, Center for Social Policy at the McCormack Institute, UMass Boston; executive producer, Give Us Your Poor.

2001-32 (8/12/01)

Adoption and Identity

Peter Gibbs, Director, Center for Adoption Research.

Doctors' Social Responsibility

Part II of our discussion with Ken Fox, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.

2001-31 (8/05/01)

Poetic Justice repeated from March 2001

Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor, Atlantic Monthly; author, Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done.

New Words repeated from March 2001

John Morse, publisher, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

2001-30 (7/29/01)

Militarizing Women's Lives

Cynthia Enloe, professor of Government and Women's Studies, Clark University; author, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives.

Teaching about the Vietnam War

Paul Atwood, Professor of American Studies, UMass Boston; Research Associate at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.

2001-29 (7/22/01)

Overcoming Violence

Rob Okun, Associate Director, Men's Resource Center, Northampton.

Elizabeth Stone House

Robyn Maguire, Coordinator of Outreach and Education, Elizabeth Stone House.

2001-28 (7/15/01)

Shakespeare Behind Bars

Jean Trounstine, professor of Humanities, Middlesex Community College; author, Shakespeare Behind Bars.

A Right to Literacy

Lorna Rivera, Assistant Professor, College of Public & Community Service, UMass Boston; researcher, Gast¤n Institute, UMass Boston.

2001-27 (7/8/01)

Discussion with an Arctic Expeditionist

Heddi Vaughan Siebel, artist and Arctic expeditionist.

A Women's Language

Cathy Silber, assistant professor of Chinese, Williams College

2001-26 (7/1/01)

Reclaiming Cultural Space

Jeremy Liu, artist with the New Modern Cultural Center Project; Director, Community Programs, Asian Community Development Corporation.

Heads and Tales

Monni Adams, curator, Peabody Museum exhibit "Heads and Tales: Adornments From Africa."

2001-25 (6/24/01)

Sustainable Development

Julian Agyeman, Professor, Environmental Policy at Tufts University; Editor, Local Environment.

Environmental Issues in the Inner City

Klare Allen, community organizer, Alternatives for Community & Environment; Co-Director, Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project.

2001-24 (6/17/01)

Cuban/American: And the 90 Miles In Between

Melinda Lopez, writer, performer.

Film and Society

Charlene Gilbert, filmmaker and fellow at Bunting Institute, Harvard University

2001-23 (6/10/01)

Washington's First Ladies

Catherine Allgor, Assistant Professor of History, Simmons College; author, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government.

A History of Marriage

Nancy Cott, Woodward Professor of History and American Studies, Yale; and author, Public Vows, A History of Marriage and the Nation.

2001-22 (6/3/01)

Poetry of Protest

MartÃn Espada, Poet Laureate, Northampton, Massachusetts; Professor of English, UMass Amherst; author, A Mayan Astronomer In Hell's Kitchen.

The Scarlet Professor

Barry Werth, author, The Scarlet Professor: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal.

2001-21 (5/27/01)

Cancer and Hope

Perry Colmore, author, The Book On Hope.

Surviving AIDS

Dave Morris, Board Member, Community Research Initiative, Positive Directions.

2001-20 (5/20/01)

The Civil War: History and Memory

David Blight, Professor of History, Amherst College; author Race and Reunion.

Charles Sumner: Massachusetts's Anti-Slavery Senator

Michael Pierson, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Lowell.

2001-19 (5/13/01)

My Town

Karilyn Crockett, Director, My Town.

Travelling With Let's Go

Marly Ohllson, Publicity Manager, Let's Go.

2001-18 (5/6/01)

U.S.-Cuban Relations: A Discussion With Congressman James P. McGovern

James McGovern, Congressman, Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District.

Cultural Survival

Ian McIntosh, Managing Director, Cultural Survival.

2001-17 (4/29/01)

Farming in New England

Kathy Ruhf, Co-director, New England Small Farm Institute.

Hunger in Massachusetts

Paul Richard, Director of Development, Worcester County Food Bank.

2001-16 (4/22/01)

Boston: A Renaissance Region

Mary Huff Stevenson, professor of Economics UMass Boston; author, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis.

The Example of Vancouver

Larry Beasley, Director of Planning, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

2001-15 (4/15/01)

Controlling TB

Edward Nardell, Tuberculosis Control Officer, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Developing New Therapies for Obesity

Harvey Lodish, member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Professor Biology, MIT.

2001-14 (4/8/01)

Toys That Kill

Marla Felcher, author, It's No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products.

The Hip Hop Literacy Program

Ken Fox, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.

2001-13 (4/1/01)

Culture is a Good Investment

Mary Kelley, Executive Director, Massachusetts Cultural Council.

A Whale of a Museum

Anne Brengle, Executive Director, New Bedford Whaling Museum

2001-12 (3/25/01)

Poetic Justice

Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor, Atlantic Monthly; author, Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done.

New Words

John Morse, publisher, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

2001-11 (3/18/01)

MCAS: A Student Leader's Perspective

Jody Kelman, chair, State Student Advisory Council to Board of Education; Concord-Carlisle High School senior.

Teen Voices

Jillian Cohan, Managing Editor, Teen Voices

2001-10 (3/11/01)

Conversation with Dickens scholar Joel J. Brattin

Joel J. Brattin, Professor of English, WPI; Editor, Everyman Dicken's edition of Our Mutual Friend..

Dickens and America

Diana Archibald, Assistant Professor of English, UMass Lowell and organizer of conference on Dickens and America: Literature, Industry and Culture.

2001-09 (3/4/01)

Aging Outrageously and Courageously

Ruth Jacobs, Sociologist and Gerontologist; author, Be An Outrageous Older Woman

Experiencing Frailty

Muriel Gillick, Physician In Chief, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged; author, Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart.

2001-08 (2/25/01)

The Best of Commonwealth Journal

Elizabeth Sherman presents the best of Commonwealth Journal's first year.

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2001-07 (2/18/01)

Documenting the Undocumented

Joan Krizack, University Archivist; Head, Special Collections Department, university libraries, Northeastern University.

Women and Boston: A History. Part II

Sarah Deutsch, author, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston 1870-1940..

2001-06 (2/11/01)

The Making of Columbia Point in Boston

Richard Gelpke and Nancy Seasholes. Richard Gelpke is a professor of Earth and Geographic Sciences at UMass Boston. Nancy Seasholes is an independent scholar.

Columbia Point: A Community History

Jane Roessner, author, A Decent Place To Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point..

2001-05 (2/4/01)

Making Schools Better

Ted and Nancy Sizer, lecturers, Harvard Graduate School of Education; authors, The Students Are Watching.

Citizen Schools

John Werner, Founding Campus Director, Citizen Schools.

2001-04 (1/28/01)

Haiku Today

Judson Evans, Director, Liberal Arts, Boston Conservatory; Contributor to Haiku Anthology.

Poetry of Home and Exile

Thomas O'Grady, Director, Irish Studies UMass Boston; author, What Really Matters.

2001-03 (1/21/01)

An Exploration of Religious and Cultural Pluralism

Joel Grossman, interfaith minister; coordinator, Health Promotion Program, University Health Services, UMass Boston.

The Wampanoags in Massachusetts: From First Contact to Today

Ramona Peters, Coordinator, Wampanoag Confederation Repatriation Project

2001-02 (1/14/01)

A Portrait of Fenway Park

Bill Nowlin, co-author, Fenway Saved.

Baseball's History

Seamus Carney, Society for American Baseball Research

2001-01 (1/07/01)

Minority Access to Health Care

Carole Upshur, Professor of Public Policy, UMass Boston

Sister Circles

Lula Christopher, President, Boston Black Women's Health Initiative