Tuesday, November 13, 2007

7:00 PM at GHS

Dr. Chafe examines some of America’s late 20th century political leaders and how their personal patterns of behavior may have affected their political decision-making.

He is author of the 2005 publication Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America.  Harvard University Press and is the recipient of the Lillian Smith Book Award, December, 2002

Professor Chafe has been co-director of the Duke Oral History Program, and its Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations; he is a founder and the former Academic Director of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women; he is also a founder and senior research associate of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1988 he was named the Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor of History He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences.

From 1990 to 1995 Chafe chaired the Duke University Department of History. In 1995 he became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 added to that title new responsibilities as Dean of Trinity College. He has most recently been appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. He is married to Lorna Waterhouse Chafe, Coordinator of Child Care Services at Duke. They have two children, Christopher, 30, and Jennifer, 28.

The Chafes have a home in Georgetown.