CANCELLED OR TO BE POSTPONED FOR A LATER DATE (3/13/20)
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
7 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114
This talk is free and open to the public.
Parking information available.
In honor of Women’s History month, writer Bruce Goldfarb will be speaking about his latest nonfiction book on Frances Glessner Lee, who is considered the mother of forensic science. His first work of popular nonfiction, “18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics,” was released by Sourcebooks in February, 2020.
Goldfarb is an award-winning author whose work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, USA Today, Baltimore magazine, American Archaeology, American Health and many other publications. Since 2012 Goldfarb has served as executive assistant to the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland. He is a public information officer for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and curator of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
For more information about Goldfarb: visit http://brucegoldfarb.com.
This event is sponsored by Appalachian State University’s Department of Sociology.
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About the Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology offers a Bachelor of Arts and six Bachelor of Science concentrations (applied research methods; criminology; deviance and law; families and intimate relationships; gerontology; social inequalities; and individually designed, which requires departmental approval). The department also offers minors in sociology and gerontology, plus two online graduate certificates in gerontology and sociology. Learn more at https://soc.appstate.edu.
By Barclay Ann Blankenship
Feb. 27, 2020
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Award-Winning Writer Bruce Goldfarb. Photo by Jennifer Bishop.
Award-Winning Writer Bruce Goldfarb. Photo by Jennifer Bishop.