April 10, 2025
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, Director of the Campus Free Expression Project
Free expression and open inquiry are under threat in our country. Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill will speak on how colleges can uphold open inquiry and raise the bar for civic discourse.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and is part of the Dialogues Across Differences Project, which is funded by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill is director of the Campus Free Expression Project, a project she launched at the Bipartisan Policy Center and brought to CIC in 2024. Earlier in her career, she was on the faculties of College of William & Mary (VA) and St. John’s College (MD). She has also taught at the University of Calgary (Canada), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), and in the college program at Maryland’s only prison for women. Pfeffer Merrill serves as a trustee of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and is a member of the Virginia 250 Education Steering Committee. She earned a B.A. at the University of Calgary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
For more information, please visit www.clarkeforum.org
Further information
- Location: Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Cost: Varies