Monday, January 6, 2004

CONTACT: James Cobb, 706/542-2507, cobby@uga.edu

COLUMBIA PROFESSOR TO DELIVER ANNUAL FERDINAND PHINIZY LECTURE ON MARCH 26

ATHENS, Ga. – Dr. Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University, will deliver the 2004 Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture on March 26, at 11 a.m. in the Seney Stovall Chapel, 201 North Milledge Avenue.

Jackson’s topic is “The Road to Hell: Transportation, Sprawl, and the Decline of the United States.”

Professor Jackson is the author of one of the most influential books of American history in the last half century, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), which has been reprinted 17 times. He also is editor-in-chief of the monumental The Encyclopedia of New York City (1995), the first book of its kind to appear in almost 100 years, now in its sixth printing.

A leading commentator on urban issues, Jackson has been a featured guest on ABC Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, the NBC Today Show, CBS Up to the Minute, the History Channel and CNN. He is a past president of the Organization of American Historians and was elected president of the New York Historical Society in 2001.

The Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture Series is supported by the Ferdinand Phinizy Endowment. For more information, call Professor Jim Cobb at 706-542-2053.