鈥淐ompassion Fatigue and Mobilizing the Public to Fight Slavery鈥� will be the topic of discussion as Dr. Matthew Mason delivers East Central University鈥檚 Rothbaum Lecture on Monday, Sept. 19, at 6:30 p.m. in the Estep Multimedia Center inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.
The lecture, free and open to the public, is being conducted on Constitution Day, the celebration of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Mason is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah since 2003 and is the co-director of Historians Against Slavery, a community of scholar-activists who contribute research and historical context to today鈥檚 antislavery movements in order to inspire and inform activism and to develop collaboration that empower such efforts.
Mason is the author of several articles in various journals, mostly on the intersection of slavery and politics in early American history. He is also the author of 鈥淪lavery and Politics in the Early American Republic鈥� (2006) and was the co-editor, with John Craig Hammond, of 鈥淐ontesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation鈥� (2011) and with Nicholas Mason, of 鈥淭he History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson鈥� by Edwards Kimber (2009).
The Rothbaum Lecture is funded through an endowment established by the late Julian Rothbaum with a $25,000 gift to the 成人B站 Foundation, Inc. that was matched by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. He also established an endowment to fund the George Nigh Award for 成人B站鈥檚 top graduating senior.
Rothbaum, who lived in Tulsa, was a longtime leader in Oklahoma civic affairs, a 1986 inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and a former member of the Oklahoma State Regents for High Education and the University of Oklahoma Regents.
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