Expert in Environmentalism, East Asian Studies to be in Residence This Spring

Through the Council of Independent Colleges, Duquesne will bring its first-ever Woodrow Wilson Fellow to campus this spring.

Lee Feigon

Visiting scholar Dr. Lee Feigon, a filmmaker, journalist and professor with wide-ranging interests—from business to the slow food movement—takes a political-historical approach to studies on China and Tibet. He will interact with faculty and students formally and informally while in residence at Duquesne from Monday, March 14, through Friday, March 18.

To take full advantage of this opportunity, Dr. Kathleen Glenister Roberts, director of the Honors College, is requesting that faculty members share with her ways they would consider connecting Feigon with their spring semester courses.

Feigon, a research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago, has been an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. A former professor of history and chair of East Asian studies at Colby College, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Nation, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic and the Boston Globe. He also has been interviewed on major broadcast news shows.

Author of Mao: A Reinterpretation, Feigon wrote, directed and produced a revisionist documentary, The Passion of the Mao. He also has authored the acclaimed Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of the Land of the Snows and China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen.

Feigon’s interactions with the Duquesne University community could include topics such as:

  • How to make a movie with little technical knowledge and no money
  • Mao and the image of China past and present
  • The internationalization of the Tibetan cause
  • Globalization and slow eating
  • Personal and business perspectives
  • Documentary filmmaking in the age of the Internet
  • How to succeed in business without going to the office.

To brainstorm or share requests for scheduling Feigon, contact Roberts by Nov. 30.