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Ambassador Ashe with Larry E. Sullivan
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Counselor for Press and Culture Ed Kulakowski is pleased to announce a presentation by Larry E. Sullivan as part of our America Presents program on October 18 (Tuesday) at 3:00 p.m. at the American Embassy in Warsaw (Piękna 14A entrance). Sullivan will give a lecture titled: "Convicts and Conversion: The Role of Religion in Imprisonment and Prison Reform".
Larry E. Sullivan is Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Professor of Criminal Justice in the doctoral program at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from The Johns Hopkins University, a M.S.L.S from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a B.A. from De Paul University in Chicago. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Poitiers in France where he studied medieval history and literature. Prior to his appointment at John Jay in 1995, he was the Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress where he had responsibility for the nation’s rare book collection.
Dr. Sullivan became involved in the criminal justice system when he worked at the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore in the late 1970s. That experience prompted him to begin researching prison history and to write the book The Prison Reform Movement: Forlorn Hope (1990; revised edition 2002). He also began collecting literature written by felons, and his private collection of convict literature has been on public exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York and at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He based his book, Bandits and Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth Century America (2003), on these prison writings.
He is the author, co-author, or editor of over fifty books and articles in the fields of American and European history, penology, criminal justice, art history, and other subjects. His most recent publication, the three- volume Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement (2005), of which he is Editor-in-Chief, is the first such work that covers both the theory and practice of policing and has been called unique by reviewers in its comprehensive coverage of worldwide law enforcement.
U.S. Embassy web site: http://warsaw.usembassy.gov
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