Join Your Fellow Chamber Members for the Virtual International Business Professionals Topic:
A Primer on the 2020 Election
Speaker:
Robert Watson, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of American History, Director, Project Civitas College of Arts & Science, Lynn University
About Dr. Watson:
Robert Watson is a professor, author, historian, media commentator and community activist. He joined the faculty of Lynn in 2007 after spending 15 years teaching at universities around the country. He has published over 40 books and approximately 200 scholarly articles, essays and chapters on topics in history and politics. His recent books America’s First Crisis, The Nazi Titanic, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn, and George Washington’s Final Battle have received critical acclaim. A frequent media commentator, Watson has been interviewed by local, national and international television, radio, print and online outlets including CNN, MSNBC, Time, USA Today, The New York Times, BBC and more. He served for many years as the political analyst for WPTV 5 NBC, a Sunday columnist for the Sun-Sentinel newspaper and a regular guest on television shows “To the Point” (WPTV 5 NBC) and “Issues” (WPBT 2 PBS) and on radio programs on RTE One Ireland, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WIOD 610 AM and WFTL 850 AM.
Professionally, Watson co-convened a half-dozen national conferences on the American presidency and regularly lectures at universities, museums and historic sites around the country. He served as the editor for numerous projects including SUNY Press’s book series on the American Presidents, the multi-volume, multi-edition encyclopedia sets American Presidents and American First Ladies, the scholarly journals White House Studies and the Social Science Journal, and the quadrennial Report to the First Lady which was presented to the White House every four years after elections. He has also served on the boards of many scholarly journals, academic associations, and community foundations, as well as with the Harry Truman Foundation, Calvin Coolidge Foundation, and George McGovern Library and Center for Public Service.
An active volunteer in the community, Watson has convened many public town hall events on current issues and historical topics, served as the judge for National History Day contests and children’s spelling bees, hosted civic education and history workshops for teachers, moderated political debates, and co-founded three nonprofit think tanks dedicated to civic education, political reform, and fact-checking campaign lies. In his free time, Watson is a popular lecturer aboard luxury cruise lines, for the prestigious One Day University programs around the country, and on history tours both in the U.S. and internationally.