Westmont Faculty Panel Probes Human Trafficking
By Guest Author
on Nov 19, 2009 at 01:52 PM in Schools
SANTA BARBARA - Three Westmont faculty members, Alister Chapman, Edd Noell and Helen Rhee, discuss human trafficking in a free event, “Modern Slavery Through Faculty Eyes,” Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 6:30-8 p.m. in Page Multipurpose Room. The talk will be moderated by Scott McClelland, director of Westmont's San Francisco Urban program, which is sponsoring the discussion.
The talk will take an inter-disciplinary look at what Christians should know about human trafficking today. The discussion follows a similar talk in September by Westmont alumnus David Batstone.
Chapman, assistant professor of history at Westmont, earned his doctorate from the University of Cambridge. He received the Bruce and Adaline Bare Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (Social Sciences) in 2008. He recently co-edited “Seeing Things Their Way: Intellectual History and Religious Belief.”
Noell, professor of business and economics, earned a master’s degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a doctorate in economics from Louisiana State University. He has been teaching at Westmont since 1986. He earned the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (Social Sciences) in 1998, has published work on labor market regulation, and is currently involved in writing a book project on the history of moral reflections in economics.
Rhee, assistant professor of religious studies, earned a doctorate in church history from Fuller Theological Seminary. She came to Westmont in 2004 and is an author of “Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries.” She is authoring a book, “Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation,” and coauthoring “Protestant Social Ethics.”
McClelland earned a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary and The King's College and is co-pastor of Miraloma Community Church in San Francisco. He has directed the San Francisco Urban Program since 2006.
San Francisco Urban is an off-campus program of Westmont College, featuring vocationally-oriented internships and study in urban issues, such as human trafficking in one of America's most diverse world-class cities.
