Trinity College

On Feburary 9, 2015, Amity Shlaes delivered a talk at Trinity College entitled: Coolidge in 2016: How Coolidge Said "No" and How He Can Teach Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and

Hillary Clinton to say "No," Too”

Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers:

"Coolidge, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," "The Forgotten Man/Graphic Edition," a cartoon book, and "The Greedy Hand." "The Forgotten Man" has been called the finest history of the 1930's ever written. "Coolidge" was named by Economist Magazine and Alan Greenspan as one of the best books of the year 2013. A veteran journalist,

Shlaes writes for Forbes and National Review, and spent over ten years as a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Shlaes chairs the jury of the prestigious Hayek Prize, a $50,000 prize for free market journalism, and chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, which is an expanding national foundation honoring the American president known for his restraint in government and civility. Shlaes has also written for The Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member, as well as for The New Yorker, Fortune, National Review, The New Republic, and Foreign Affairs. She has appeared on PBS’s News Hours with Jim Lehrer, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Fox

News’ Glenn Beck, ABC’s Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, CNBC’s Kudlow, contributes to Public Radio International’s Marketplace, and appears on Bloomberg radio. Shlaes graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and studied at the Free University in Berlin on a DAAD fellowship.

Yale named her to its "Who's Been Blue," list of most distinguished alumni. She lives with her family in New York.

Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the essay collection "Sidewalks," and the internationally acclaimed novel, "Faces in the Crowd." Her work has been translated into several languages, and in 2014, she was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her second novel, "The Story of My Teeth" will be published next fall by Coffee House Press.

Patrick is one of the founding members of Patrick L Pinnell AIA/ Architecture & Town Planning LLC. An avid local architectural history buff, Patrick combines this knowledge with current design techniques to provide a unique approach to modern planning that blends with any neighborhood. His specialty is gut-renovations where original details need to be preserved or restored.

Pinnell is the recipient of several prestigious awards, the most recent being Higganum Historical Preservation Society's Award of Excellence, and his third consecutive Architect of the Year Award.

Pinnell discusses the changes and potential of Hartford.

Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, "O My Darling," "The Folded World," and "Schroder," which was short-listed for the Folio Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Connecticut with her family and teaches at Amherst College.

Sean Cocco teaches early modern history at Trinity College. He earned Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Naples, Italy in 2001. In this podcast, Cocco discusses the Presidential search at Trinity, of which he was a committee member, his time in Italy, Galileo, and more.

Chapters:

0:00 – 5:45 – Introduction and Trinity Presidential Search Committee

5:45 – 12:45 – Importance of Liberal Arts and Becoming a Professor

12:45 – 17:05 – Growing up in Italy and on Shaw Island

17:05 – 26:00 – Galileo and the Study of Early Modern Science

26:00 – 30:00 – Planet Earth: Town Meetings and Team Teaching

30:00 – End – Vesuvius and Observing the Natural World

Hosted by Kevin MacDermott, The Faculty Profile Podcast highlights the scholarship, teaching, and personality of the members of Trinity College’s Faculty. Kevin is the Head Coach of Men’s Rowing at Trinity, Associate Director of the Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont, a Wesleyan University graduate with a Theater degree, and a member of Franklin’s Peaches, one of Connecticut’s improv comedy groups.

Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and anthologized in The Best American Short Stories. His first book, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, won the Minnesota Book Award, the Friends of American Writers Award, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. He was born in Seattle, Washington, and received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Trinity, he taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and at the MFA program at Hamline University. In the classroom he encourages his students to read as writers, to take their own work seriously, and to understand that even the most compelling stories began simply, as a series of artistic choices.

Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, discusses ISIS in a lecture to Trinity students, hosted by Alpha Delta Phi.

Barbara Beltz P’02 is the Allene Lummis Russell Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on the production of new neurons in the adult nervous system (adult neurogenesis), using the crustacean brain as the model system.

Andrew Koh is with the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology with MIT; he holds his degrees from UPenn (Ph.D.) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of specialization are Greek art and archaeology, the Mediterranean and the East, the ethnoarchaeology of Crete, and archaeological science. Professor Koh has done field work for the ARCHEM Project in Greece, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey.

Nancy Miller Davis '77 was elected Vice President and Chief Information Officer at United Technologies in January, 2010. She is responsible for providing leadership to UTC’s information technology function, including global IT strategies, systems, infrastructure and supplier management. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College and holds a Master of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.​​​​​​​​​

She is joined by Peter Bradley ’87, a fellow in the field of high-performance computing and modeling at Pratt & Whitney.