Geneva to Mark Frederick Douglass’s 200th Birthday with Malone University Historian
Jay Case, PhD, will deliver lecture, “Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly”
(BEAVER FALLS, Pa.) — Geneva College will host Jay Case, PhD, historian from Malone University, for a public lecture on Monday, February 18, 2019 from 10:10 to 11:05 a.m. at College Hill RP church—Old Stone (Adjacent to the McCartney Library). Case will deliver a lectured entitled “Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly.”
The lecture, sponsored by the Oversight Committee of the Geneva College Faculty Senate, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, nineteenth century abolitionist, writer, orator, statesman and escaped slave. This event is free to attend and open to the public.
Case is a Professor of History at Malone University in Canton, OH and author of An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicalism and World Christianity, 1812-1910 (Oxford, 2012). His articles have appeared in American Evangelicalism: George Marsden and the Shape of American Religious History (Notre Dame, 2014), The Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West and the World (Oxford, 2005), and Religion and American Culture, among others. Case earned his M.A. and PhD in American History from Notre Dame and a B.A. in History and Social Studies from Taylor University.