2025 Harpur College Dean’s Distinguished Lecture:
"Race, Place, and Pollution: Redlining, Kinship, and Environmental Justice"
- Presenter: Neha Khanna, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
- Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Time: 5:00 p.m.
- Location: FA (Fine Arts) 258
Reception to follow in the Grand Corridor
About Neha Khanna:
Neha Khanna is an environmental economist whose early research explored climate change, global oil markets, and the link between economic growth and environmental quality. Her recent work examines U.S. air quality, focusing on voluntary self-regulation and pollution spillovers under the Clean Air Act. Currently, she investigates environmental justice issues, including the long-term impacts of pollution exposure and the welfare effects of roadway noise. Her contributions have earned numerous honors, including the 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2024 Lois B. DeFleur Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence.
The Harpur College Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series, established in 1998, showcases outstanding faculty research and creative work across disciplines. Open to the public, it offers faculty a platform to engage with peers, students, and the local community. Co-sponsored by the Binghamton Chapter of United University Professions.
Past Harpur College Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series:
- Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series: 2024 - 2008 (Past Lectures)
2024
Jonathan Karp, Judaic Studies and History
"Everybody’s Doin’ It Now": The Peculiar Place of Jews in Early Jazz
2023
Tom McDonough, Art History
Black Monument: Ed Wilson Shapes African American History into Public Art, 1972-1984
2022
Olga Shvetsova, Political Science
What We Learned about our Governments during this Pandemic
2021
Jaimee Wriston Colbert, English and Creative Writing
Flight of the Palila - From Passion to Eco-Fiction, One Writer's Process
2020
Matt Johnson, Psychology
Predicting Marital Discord & Divorce
2019
Anne Bailey, History
The Weeping Time and Divided America
2018
Max Pensky, Philosophy and Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Is the Battle Against Impunity Worth Winning?
2017
Subal Kumbhakar, Economics
Performance, Productivity and Profit: A Primer
2016
Tim Lowenstein, Geological Sciences
Predicting future climate change from study of Earth's past
2015
Nancy Um, Art History
A Mosque, a Tomb, and the Arabian Legacy of Coffee
2014
Benjamin Fordham, Political Science
Protectionist Empire: Trade, Tariffs, and United States Foreign Policy, 1890–1914
2013
Karin Sauer, Biological Sciences
Disarming Biofilms - How to Turn a Microbe Against Itself
2012
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, English
William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and Paterson: Poets of the City
2011
Donald Quataert, History
Views from Below and the Writing of Ottoman History
2010
Marilynn Desmond, English and Comparative Literature
Transitional Feminism and the Middle Ages
2009
J. Koji Lum, Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Human Settlement and Malaria of the Pacific
2008
Thomas Dublin, History
The Face of Decline - Deindustrialization in Pennsylvania Anthracite Religion