Ena H. Thompson endowed these annual lectures in 1980 to
encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of
history. The visiting lecturers are elected both on the
basis of their past contributions to the discipline and of
the importance of their current research in advancing the
field.
Generally offered in the Spring Semester, the lectureship
brings a distinguished historian to the Pomona College
campus for a week of intensive interaction with students,
faculty, and alumni. The two public lectures become
the core for discussion, with the final alumni dinner talk
as the capstone.
The Ena H. Thompson Lecturer for 2009/10 will be
Professor Thomas R. Metcalf, distinguished historian of
India and the Indian Ocean. He will be on campus the
week of April 12-17, 2010. On Tuesday April 13, and
Thursday April 15, he will deliver the public Thompson
lectures in the Rose Hill Theatre at 11:00 a.m.
For more information: Robert Woods
(rwoods@pomona.edu,
(909) 607-3917) or Gina Espinoza
(gina-espinoza@pomona.edu, (909) 607-30750.
Past Ena H. Thompson Lecturers.
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