Alice Newton retired in August 2023 after 18 years of distinguished service at The University Seminars, where she worked with three directors and was herself Interim Director for three years (2019 -2022). From 1968, while a student at Rutgers University, and later at New...

Tribute to Alice Newton, Tannenbaum Award Honoree for 2024. In recognition of her extraordinary contributions to The University Seminars, Alice Newton will receive the 2024 Tannenbaum Award at the Annual Dinner on April 17, 2024. In August 2023,...

Drawing from nearly two decades of research on US and international human trafficking, Melissa Hope Ditmore sets forth the harrowing stories of human trafficking survivors and grounds their accounts in the long history of US indentured servitude, looking...

The University Seminars Archive is a valuable compilation of intellectual history spanning nearly 75 years. In the academic year 1944-1945, five seminars began to meet on an ongoing basis; three of those original seminars remain active. Since these WWII-era beginnings,...