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James Dubinsky

Professor Dubinsky is the founding director of the department’s Professional Writing Program and was instrumental in helping to shape the first liberal arts PhD at VT (in Rhetoric and Writing).

He is the founding director of the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships (now VT-Engage) and the lead faculty member in Veterans in Society initiative – organized and/or chaired three national conference on Veterans in Society.

Dubinsky is also a steering committee member of a county-wide Dialogue on Race that began before the major shootings (e.g., Ferguson, MO; Charleston, SC); additionally, he helped organize four Dialogue on Race Summits (2013 -2016). These included all local police chiefs, town officials (mayor, council representatives), and county officials (board of supervisors, school boards).

Ken Bundy from Bridgeport Ct. who served in Vietnam for 2 years touchs the Vietnam Memorial, November 11, 2003 in Washington, DC.

What Veterans’ Poems Can Teach Us About Healing on Memorial Day

A scholar and military veteran proposes that poems written by veterans that focus on honoring those who have died in service can help heal an ailing nation.