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September 5, 2005
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President’s Visiting Scholar and alumnus Rampersad to share insight with campus

Noted scholar, critic and biographer Dr. Arnold Rampersad will be on campus periodically this year as the President’s Visiting Scholar in the Humanities. Rampersad, a BGSU alumnus, is senior associate dean for the humanities and Sarah Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

In the first of his three visits to BGSU, Sept. 13-15, Rampersad will work with students, faculty and administrators and give two public talks. He will address issues in sports and the humanities, reflecting two key areas of his writing and teaching.

His life’s work has centered on interpreting the African-American experience through the lens of biography.

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