Location
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The LWV of Alachua County and Santa Fe College Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences are pleased to present an exciting and timely, in-person panel discussion regarding the U.S. Supreme Court Case, Moore v. Harper and the potential impacts on our elections and democracy as we know it. Join us on the Santa Fe College Northwest Campus at 3000 NW 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL 32606, in Building WA, room WA-108 on March 2nd from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public with ample free parking nearby. Enter campus from South Road.
Panelists
Alan Beck
Professor of Political Sciences
Santa Fe College Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor Beck earned a BA in Political Science and Journalism at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York, in 1983. He later earned an MA in Political Economy as Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate School in 2000. His doctoral dissertation had to do with American social welfare policy, and particularly with problems caused by the 1996 welfare “reform” law. For 11 years, while working toward his latter degrees, he served on the staff of the Committee for Modern Courts, a non-profit court reform organization in New York that worked to improve the quality and fairness of the New York State court system, especially on matters concerning how the courts treat poorer New Yorkers. After earning his Ph.D. in 2000, he worked for two years as a visiting professor of Political Science at Elmira College in upstate New York and for two years as a visiting professor at Juniata College in central Pennsylvania. He has been a Political Science Professor at Santa Fe College since 2005. He has taught a wide variety of courses during his career. At Santa Fe College, he teaches American National Government, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, State and Local Politics, and American Legislative Politics.
Lyrissa Lidsky
Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Lidsky is the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law at Florida Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She previously served as Dean of the University of Missouri School of Law from 2017-2022. The focus of her research and teaching is the intersection of Tort Law and the First Amendment, with an emphasis on free speech issues in social media.
Before becoming dean at Missouri, Professor Lidsky served in a variety of leadership roles at UF Law, including as associate dean for graduate and international programs and associate dean for faculty development. She also held the Stephen C. O’Connell Chair in Law and received a number of teaching awards during her 23-year tenure at UF, including student-selected awards such as Teacher of the Year (twice) and Faculty Graduation Speaker (three times), as well as Teacher of the Year, which was selected by a faculty committee.
Moderator
Donna Waller
LWV of Alachua County Nominating Committee Chair
I came to Gainesville in 1980 to pursue a doctorate in political theory and never left. I took a position as adjunct faculty at SFC in 1985 and retired as a full professor in 2012. My field of interest is American political thought, and at SFC I taught American National Government, State and Local Government, US History, and a variety of Honors courses. When I retired from Santa Fe, I began to be active with the League of Women Voters, as well as teaching Civics at the Senior Center and various classes for the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock. I think of myself now as an active participant in local politics and in the life of the Gainesville community.
