Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI)

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Each academic year, the Ruth and Lee Munroe Center for Social Inquiry continues the pursuit of interdisciplinary learning and public inquiry embodied by the lives and service of two of Pitzer’s most distinguished and beloved professors, the late Robert “Lee” Munroe, research professor of anthropology, and the late Ruth Hagberg Munroe.

2025-2026 Munroe Center for Social Inquiry Director: Professor Timothy Justus

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MSCI Lecture Series Presents Alexandra Hui

This talk is presented as part of the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry's "Cultivating Attention" lecture series.

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Fall 2024 Lecture Series: Talking Trash

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Fall 2023 Lecture Series: Apologies, Reparations, and Restitution

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Talk Highlights Unsettling Connections Between Toxic Waste and Food

For the fall lecture series “Talking Trash,” Pitzer’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry invites Adam M. Romero to discuss how industrial waste affects agriculture.