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Robert Glennon to Lecture at
Hope College: March 8, 2010
Knickerbocker Theater
7:00 pm
Continuing the dialogue begun at the
2009 Critical Issues Symposium:
Water: Complacency, Thirst, Action
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Robert Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. A recipient of two National Science Foundation grants, he serves as Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers’ Science and Technical Advisory Comittee; and as a commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs. He is also a Huffington Post blogger.
Glennon’s best-known publication is Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002), which received accolades from Scientific American, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books.
His new book Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, was published in April, 2009. Since then, he has been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN2’s Book TV, and National Public Radio shows in New York City, Chicago and Phoenix; he’s also published pieces in the Washington Post and the Arizona Republic. In 2009, his active speaking schedule will take him to Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Canada, and 17 U.S. states.
Glennon received a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University. He is also a member of the bars of Arizona and Massachusetts. |
