#  Psychology Colloquium: The James Sidanius Lecture on Social Inequality ~ Darrin M. McMahon, PhD ~ Dartmouth College 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 15, 2024** 

 03:00PM - 04:15PM EDT 

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 **William James Hall: Room B-1, Basement Auditorium**  



 

 



 

 The Department of Psychology and the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging presents:

 [Darrin M. McMahon, Ph.D](https://history.dartmouth.edu/people/darrin-m-mcmahon)[.](/) David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor of History & Chair, Department of History, Dartmouth College, speaking at the:

 **5th Memorial James Sidanius Lecture on Social Inequality**

 **Topic:** “Thinking about Equality, Hierarchy, and Domination over Time, or Why Historians and Psychologists Should Spend More Time Together.”

 **Abstract:** When close to a decade ago I went looking for studies by historians to guide me as I embarked on writing an intellectual history of equality, I found surprisingly little. Psychologists, by contrast, had much to offer and I drew on their work freely. In this talk, I will seek to return the favor by suggesting not only some of the benefits historians can accrue from engaging with the work of psychologists and fellows social scientists, but also some of the ways that history and historians might better inform our understanding of subjects of great interest to the scholar for whom this memorial lecture is named, the late Jim Sidanius. Thinking about equality, hierarchy, and domination in the past as well as in the present, I will suggest, benefits from perspectives that aim to be both timeless and timely.

 **Darrin M. McMahon** is currently the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor of History at Dartmouth, where he previously held the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Chair. He was the Ben Weider Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University from 2004–2014. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, where he received his PhD in 1998, McMahon is the author of *Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity* (Oxford University Press, 2001); *Happiness: A History* (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), which has been translated into twelve languages, and was awarded Best Books of the Year honors for 2006 by the *New York Times*, *The Washington Post*, the *Library Journal*, and *Slate Magazine;* *Divine Fury: A History of Genius* (Basic Books, 2013); and, most recently, *Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea* (Basic Books, 2023).



 

 



 

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