EIU’s Murley selected as Illinois Road Scholar for 2019-20
Feb-26-2019
(Charleston, IL) – Eastern Illinois University’s Bryan Murley, associate professor of journalism, was selected for a slot on the Illinois Road Scholars roster for 2019-20. The Road Scholars speaker program is part of Illinois Humanities and seeks to provide a variety of humanities programming to local non-profit organizations around the state at reduced cost.
Murley has two presentations approved for the roster: “A Governor for Our Times: John Peter Altgeld on Illinois’ Incarceration and Reform” and “Sifting Through the Ashes of Truth: John Peter Altgeld, the Press, and the Internet's Fake News Conundrum.” More information about the program is available at https://www.ilhumanities.org/program/road-scholars-speakers-bureau/.
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