Ann Marie Mires teaches at Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts, and also at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She discusses the field of forensics, relating it both to analysis of ancient human remains as well as its application to current crime investigations.

Author Patrick McCloskey talks with Ben Birnbaum, editor of lt;igt;Boston College Magazinelt;/igt;, about his book lt;igt;The Street Stops Herelt;/igt; (University of California Press, 2009), a critically acclaimed account of a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem. McCloskey is an accomplished journalist, a senior fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service, and a senior consulting partner at Julius Capital Partners.

Author Patrick McCloskey talks with Ben Birnbaum, editor of lt;igt;Boston College Magazinelt;/igt;, about his book lt;igt;The Street Stops Herelt;/igt; (University of California Press, 2009), a critically acclaimed account of a year at a Catholic high school in Harlem. McCloskey is an accomplished journalist, a senior fellow at the Statistical Assessment Service, and a senior consulting partner at Julius Capital Partners.

David Fromm 93 fondly recalls his undergraduate years at Boston College before reading two selections from lt;igt;Expatriot Games: My Season of Misadventures in Czech Semi-Pro Basketballlt;/igt; (Skyhorse, 2008).

Liz McCartney 94, co-founder of St. Bernard Project, a not-for-profit organization devoted to rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, discusses some of the lessons she has learned about effective leadership. For her work in New Orleans St. Bernard Parish, McCartney was recognized as CNNs 2008 “Hero of the Year” and received the 2009 Ignatian Award from the Boston College Alumni Association.

Liz McCartney 94, co-founder of St. Bernard Project, a not-for-profit organization devoted to rebuilding homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, discusses some of the lessons she has learned about effective leadership. For her work in New Orleans St. Bernard Parish, McCartney was recognized as CNNs 2008 “Hero of the Year” and received the 2009 Ignatian Award from the Boston College Alumni Association.

Elizabeth McAlister is an associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. She discusses the “conceptual and on-the-ground relationship” between U.S. evangelicals and Haitian evangelicals.

Elizabeth McAlister is an associate professor of religion at Wesleyan University. She discusses the “conceptual and on-the-ground relationship” between U.S. evangelicals and Haitian evangelicals.

Chinese-American author, feminist, and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston writes both fiction and nonfiction about the immigrant experience. The Woman Warrior (1976) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction. In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, she reads from her essay collection Hawaii One Summer (1987).

Chinese-American author, feminist, and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston writes both fiction and nonfiction about the immigrant experience. The Woman Warrior (1976) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction. In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, she reads from her essay collection Hawaii One Summer (1987).