Arts & Issues

J. Drew Lanham

Forever Gone-Extinction and the Case for Ecological Reparations

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Meridian Ballroom, Morris University Center 

 The Department of Biological Sciences and Arts & Issues will celebrate Darwin Day by presenting Dr. J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, S.C., Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram’s Living Legacy and Carolina Writers at Home. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, he and his family live in the upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.

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