MLK Day event to feature lecture by ISU professor at DePauw on Jan. 19

Bruce McGowan

The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored Monday, Jan. 19 at DePauw University with a special public presentation.

Brian McGowan, assistant professor of educational leadership at Indiana State University, will discuss "Contextualizing the Struggle: Past, Present and Future." His speech will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the auditorium of DePauw's Richard E. Peeler Art Center (southwest corner of Hanna and Indiana streets).

The program is presented free of charge and is open to all.

Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a DePauw University audience at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church on Sept. 5, 1960.

Martin Luther King Jr. himself spoke in Greencastle on Sept. 5, 1960 at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church on the DePauw campus.

His son, Martin Luther King III, has visited campus twice, most recently in November 2013 as a part of the DePauw Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series.

Professor McGowan's research interests include diversity in higher education and college student development theory.

He earned his bachelor's degree in music education from Old Dominion University, and holds a master's degree in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in higher education from Indiana University.

His awards include receiving the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year in 2014.