Center for Metropolitan Studies Announces Wherrett Lecture

09/07/2011

The Center for Metropolitan Studies will hold its Fall 2011 Wherrett Lecture “Social Capital and Equality” presented by Dr. Robert Putnam at 10 a.m., Friday, Sept. 23 in Ballroom B at the University Club.

Dr. Putnam is a Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is the author of Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work. Professor Putnam has served as adviser to presidents and national leaders around the world.  The London Sunday Times has called him “the most influential academic in the world today.”

His recent research topics include: the changing role of religion in contemporary American civic life and how diversity and immigration, social and economic equal¬ity and social capital are related across time and space, especially in the U.S.

The event is free and open to the public. RSVP cmsgspia@pitt.edu or call, 412-648-2282.