Dr. Robert Dupont
Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow, CenterAustria
New Orleans after Katrina
When: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:30– 1:30 p.m.
Where: Liberal Arts Lounge, LA 197. UNO Lakefront Campus.
Robert Dupont is a graduate of Loyola University and UNO and holds a PhD in American History from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He served as the long-term Dean of Metropolitan College, in which capacity he supervised Center Austria, and Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning. He is a Senior Fellow at Center Austria. In the summer of 2009 he directed the UNO International Summer School in Innsbruck and taught for the Summer School in 2010. He is the author of On Higher Ground: The University of New Orleans at Fifty (UNO Press 2008) and edited (with Guenter Bischof ) The Pacific War Revisited (LSU Press 1997).