Challenges & Opportunities of Public-facing Scholarship

The SAL2 program invites FAS ladder faculty and Professors in the Practice to a roundtable discussion of the challenges and opportunities of writing for a wider public audience today.

If you’re interested in writing for a wider audience outside academia, we hope you will join us on Thursday, February 26 from 2:30-3:30 PM in the Humanities Quadrangle (HQ), Room 276. Refreshments and snacks will be provided. Sign up below by Tuesday, February 24.

Panelists will discuss opportunities, challenges, and strategies related to public-facing scholarship. There will be time for questions and discussion.

Panelists include:

Rene Almeling, Professor of Sociology, focuses on gender, medicine, reproduction, and climate change. She has written two award-winning books:  GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health and Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Elle.

Beverly Gage, John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, specializes in 20th-century U.S. history. She is the author of the Pulitzer-prize winning book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Her new book, This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip through U.S. History, will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2026. She also writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post.  

C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has written on varied topics including Afrofuturism, race science, epidemiology, bioethics, and artificial intelligence. A recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication, he is an ideas contributor for Wired and the author of a column ("Selective Pressure") at Undark.  In addition, he has written for various other publications at the interface between science, technology, and culture, such as The Atlantic, Andscape, Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, and the Boston Review. He is the author of the forthcoming ‘Liberation Biology’, under contract with Basic Books.

The discussion will be moderated by Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History, whose public scholarship includes the award-winning God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World and the forthcoming Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, and Time.
 

Sign up below by Tuesday, February 24.

If you have questions, please email sal2.fas@yale.edu.