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Speakers
Jerome Bookin-Weiner has been Executive Director of International Programs, Colorado State University, Laurel Hall, Fort Collins, CO. Prior to July 2001 he was Dean of International Education, Bentley College, Massachusetts. He holds the PhD from Columbia University, 1976. Dr. Bookin-Weiner is a ormer Board member of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society (TALMS).
Philander Chase is the senior editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia. He is now in his thirty-fourth year of editing Washington's papers, having joined the project's editorial staff in 1973, the same year in which he received his Ph.D. in early American history from Duke University. In addition to his editing duties, Dr. Chase has written numerous articles and reviews, and he is working on a biography of the Continental army's drill master, Baron von Steuben.
Jim MacKay is the Interim Director of the Office of Historic Alexandria, and the Director of the Lyceum, Alexandria’s History Museum, and has previously worked at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Jamestown Settlement, and Colonial Williamsburg. He holds an M.A. in history from George Mason University; his mater’s thesis was on the development of taverns in Alexandria 1750-1810.
Jeffrey J. Malanson is a Ph.D. student at Boston College. His dissertation focuses on the evolution of Washington’s Farewell Address in its political and diplomatic uses as well as in the public mind. His article, “The Congressional Debate over U.S. Participation in the Congress of Panama, 1825–1826: Washington's Farewell Address, Monroe's Doctrine, and the Fundamental Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy” recently appeared in the journal Diplomatic History.
Dennis J. Pogue, Ph.D., is an Associate Director of Historic Mount Vernon, in charge of all preservation related activities on the Mount Vernon estate. For seven years he served as the Chief Archaeologist. Dr. Pogue holds the Doctorate in Anthropology, with an emphasis in historical archaeology, from The American University, in Washington, DC, along with an M.A. degree in American Studies from George Washington University, and a B.A. degree in History from the University of Iowa.
Chris Tudda is a Historian in the Declassification and Publishing Division in the Office of the Historian, Department of State, He earned a B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1987 and the Ph.D. from American University in 2002. In June 2006 he was named to the Advisory Board of the Voices of Democracy Project, a web-based teaching program for American undergraduates that promotes the study of great speeches and debates, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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