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Spring series spotlights ambassador
The University of the Incarnate Word’s ambassador-in-residence, Dr. James Creagan, will be featured in a three-part special spring series, an administrator announced.
The Liza and Jack Lewis Center of the Americas is collaborating with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences on this “Conversations with the Ambassador” series, said Dr. Rafael Hoyle, director of the Lewis Center.
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The Special Collections Room on the second floor of J.E. and L.E. Mabee Library will be the venue for the series set at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16; 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22; and 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 13.
Creagan, who is with the Department of Political Science, will open the series with “Democracies in Crisis? Interpreting the Transitions of Power in Brazil and the United States.” For the second one, he will be joined by Ruben Minutti Zanatta, the Mexican consul general in San Antonio, on “Mexico-U.S. Relations – 200 Years.” The third topic will be announced later, Hoyle said.
Creagan, who also speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, served under nine U.S. presidents during a diplomatic career spanning three decades. When he retired from the Foreign Service in 1999, he became president of John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, and was named its president emeritus in 2005.
The ambassador also was a guest scholar at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute in 2005. Besides holding a degree from Notre Dame, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
In 2006, he joined UIW as professor and ambassador-in-residence. In 2022, he returned in the same post, in addition becoming a fellow at the Lewis Center.
“(This) series aims to provide our students, faculty and staff with convenient opportunities to hear from Ambassador Creagan on various topics in the realm of international affairs,” Hoyle said. “We will also stream the conversations, not only for the benefit of our Mexico campuses, but for the convenience of UIW community members here in San Antonio or elsewhere who can’t make it to the event in person.”
