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The Alan Dawley Center for the Study of Social Justice

 

The Alan Dawley Prize 2012

The 2012 Alan Dawley Prize has been awarded to Rebecca L. Stefaniak for her history senior honors thesis, "Applying Girls' Rules to a Girl's Fight: The Impact of Second Wave Feminism on Rape Law Reform." This year's prize competition garnered a record number of submissions (25). There were a number of honorable mentions awarded/

 

Social Justice Interdisciplinary Concentration

The Liberal Learning Program Council has formally approved a new Interdisciplinary Concentration in Social Justice Studies that was proposed by the Alan Dawley Center. This concentration enables students to satisfy their liberal learning requirements, as well as their Community Engaged Learning requirements by means of a set of 8 courses selected because of their emphasis on social justice issues. The Social Justice Studies concentration is open to all TCNJ students.

 

The Alan Dawley Memorial Lecture 2012

The 2012 Alan Dawley Memorial Lecture was given by Professor James Livingston on Monday February 27, 2012 from 5:30-7:30 in the Library Auditorium. His title is "Crisis as Opportunity: The Great Recession and the American Dream." Professor Livingston is an economic historian and member of the History Department at Rutgers University. He is the author of Origins of the Federal Reserve System (1986), and most recently Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, Environment, and Your Soul (2011).

Dawley Social Justice Award

Historians Against the War presented Staughton Lynd with a “Dawley Social Justice Award” on October 30, 2009 at the Peace History Society Conference at Winthrop University, South Carolina.

The Inaugural Alan Dawley Memorial Lecture

The Inaugural Alan Dawley Memorial Lecture took place on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 4:00-6:00 pm in Kendall Hall. The speaker was Professor Peter Singer, Princeton University Center for Human Values, who spoke on "The Life You Can Save: What Are Obligations to the World's Poor?

Alan Dawley (1943-2008): Memorial and Assessment

Triubutes by Ann Marie Nicolosi and Ian Tyrrell. View articles .

 

What is Social Justice?

 

The ADCSSJ aims to provide a focal point for students, scholars, community leaders, and public intellectuals involved in social justice issues in the state of New Jersey and beyond.

The Alan Dawley Center for the Study of Social Justice (ADCSSJ) is named for the eminent historian, Professor Alan Dawley, who was its founding director. The purpose of the ADCSSJ is to produce and disseminate knowledge about social injustice and its redress. It promotes interdisciplinary study of any aspect of society where disparities of wealth, power, and privilege contradict ethical precepts. Through forums, symposiums, public lectures, film festivals, course work, campus-wide learning communities, community engagement, and other initiatives, the ADCSSJ strives to create an intellectual space dedicated to the study and practice of social justice for TCNJ and the surrounding community.

The ADCSSJ aims to provide a focal point for students, scholars, community leaders, and public intellectuals involved in social justice issues in the state of New Jersey and beyond. The ADCSSJ seeks to be the voice and nerve center of TCNJ’s core beliefs and public mission that “regards education in the service of human welfare as its chief end.”

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The Alan Dawley Center for the Study of Social Justice

Bliss Hall

The College of New Jersey

P.O. Box 7718

2000 Pennington Rd.

Ewing, NJ 08628

P) 609.771.2438

F) 609.637.5167

Director

Morton Winston

E) mwinston@tcnj.edu