Lecture Examines Masculine, Feminine Equality
Austin College’s 2022 Will Mann Richardson Lecture will feature Dr. Richard V. Reeves of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 26, in an 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. lecture and luncheon in Wright Campus Center’s Mabee Hall. The lecture is titled “Are Boys and Men on the Ropes? Masculinity, Feminism, and Equality Today.” For information, contact the department staff at 903.813.2271.
Reeves is a Brookings Institution Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and holds that department’s John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the director of the Future of the Middle-Class Initiative and his research focuses on the middle class, inequality, and social mobility.
Reeves’ latest book, written for the Brookings Institution, is Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It (2017). He is a contributor to The Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He also is the author of John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand, an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician.
A member of the Board of Jobs for the Future, Reeves is an advisor to the American Family Survey and to the Equity Center at the University of Virginia. In 2018, he served as a consultant to the Opportunity Insights team led by Professor Raj Chetty at Harvard University, and during 2017 and 2018 he was a member of the Government of Canada’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty.
Reeves also previously served as director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank; director of futures at the Work Foundation; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform; social affairs editor of The Observer; research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research; economics correspondent for The Guardian; and a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London. He previously was honored by being named European Business Speaker of the Year.
Honored on numerous occasions for his work, Reeves has written numerous publications and several books about his studies and research.
Reeves earned a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University and a doctorate from Warwick University.
The Will Mann Richardson Lectureships and Seminars were endowed by gifts from Will Mann Richardson and his wife, Gertrude Anne Windsor Richardson; his mother-in-law, Gertrude Buckley Windsor; and his children, William Windsor Richardson, John Marshall Richardson, Gertrude Windsor Richardson, and James Windsor Richardson. The fund was established to bring outstanding individuals to campus to discuss pertinent issues in economics, philosophy, law, and government.