Toward a Unified Theory of Black America
Speaker:
Roland Fryer
31 Jan 2006
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Harvard economist Roland Fryer, the 2006 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. keynote speaker, uses economic theory to study race relations in America. His groundbreaking work in using intricate economic theory in the field of African American studies has garnered the attention beyond academic departments. He is a Junior Fellow and assistant professor of economics at Harvard who received his doctorate in 2002 from Pennsylvania State University. His research topics are Affirmative Action, discrimination, and social economics. Refreshments, booksigning, and facilitated discussion will follow.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.