National scholars, diplomat, combat photographer coming to Citadel

This fall, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences will offer an array of community lectures and book signings featuring speakers considered national and international experts in their fields.

All lectures and book signing events are free and open to the public. Each event begins at 6:30 p.m. in Bond Hall Room 165.

Sept. 6: John Shelton Reed, lecture and book signing. Reed is a former Mark W. Clark Visiting Professor of History and is widely recognized as the leading authority on what constitutes modern Southern identity. He will discuss his forthcoming book “Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s,” which introduces readers to a young William Faulkner and his circle of friend in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the Jazz Age after World War I.

Oct. 18: Stacy Pearsall, lecture and book signing. Pearsall is a former Air Force combat photographer and one of only two women to win the NPPA Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the only woman to have won it twice. An Iraq veteran, Pearsall has been published in various national and international media as well as documentaries and is the owner of the Charleston Center for Photography.