Charles Delgadillo, who took his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, is a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His biography of William Allen White, the influential Republican journalist, reformer, and internationalist, recaptures an era when the phrase "liberal Republican" was not a self-evident contradiction.
Serge Ferrari is completing his dissertation on GE, tracing how the corporation remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century. His paper will be available here two weeks before his talk. A light lunch will be served.