Elizabethtown College will welcome journalist and best-selling author, Michael Eric Dyson, on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, located on Etown’s campus.

Elizabethtown College’s 2021-22 Lecture Series is one of the region’s most notable programs. The Lecture Series continues a rich tradition of the institution hosting speakers who provide audiences the opportunity to be enlightened, engaged, and entertained.

Michael Eric Dyson is the Centennial Chair and University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is an author, a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst, a contributing editor at The New Republic, the host of the Michael Eric Dyson Podcast Featuring Dr. Dan Ratner, an ordained Baptist minister for over 30 years, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993. Dr. Dyson has authored nearly twenty books, and won two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and the American Book Award in 2007 for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster.

The College also will feature other individuals during the Lecture Series including:

  • 16, 2022: Robert D. Ballard, Founder and President of the Ocean Exploration; Discoverer of R.M.S Titanic
  • March 30, 2022: Jim Collins, Internationally Recognized Thought Leader and Best-Selling Author
  • April 20, 2022: Karima Bennoune, Longtime Human Rights Advocate and Former Amnesty International Legal Advisor

Murphy & McGonigle is a proud sponsor of the Michael Eric Dyson lecture. WITF is a proud sponsor of the Lecture Series. View additional details about the series and speakers at etown.edu.