On March 11, the 2008 Ashok C. Sani Scholar-in-Residence lecture took
place. This year’s lecture, "Polio: A Look Back at the 20th Century's
Most Successful Public Health Campaign," was given by Pulitzer Prize winner David M. Oshinsky, who holds the Jack S.
Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas. A leading
historian of modern American politics and culture, his books include A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, which won the Hardeman Prize for the best work on the U.S. Congress and was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”; Worse Than Slavery, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for its “distinguished contribution to human rights” and was also a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”; and Polio: An American Story,
which won both the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Hoover
Presidential Book Award in 2006. Dr. Oshinsky is a co-editor of the Oxford Companion to United States History and a co-author of American Passages: A History of the United States. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times and other national publications.
This
annual lecture is named in memory of Ashok C. Sani, a distinguished
graduate of Stern (BS ’74), successful entrepreneur, President of
C.G.S. Industries Inc., loyal supporter of NYU, and the founding member
of the NYU Stern Alumni Council. The Sani Distinguished Scholar program
reflects Ashok’s interest in ethics, truth, love, peace, non-violence,
compassion, and the moral and social responsibilities of members of
society with the NYU community.
You can watch the lecture in its entirety here. You will need RealPlayer to view this video.
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