Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled "The Birds, the Bees, and the World: Sex Education and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization" at noon Friday, Oct. 28, in Room 309 of the Graduate Education Building on the University of Arkansas campus.

The lecture is part of the Department of Education Reform lecture series. RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. the Wednesday before the lecture.

Zimmerman is a former Peace Corps volunteer and public school social studies teacher. His scholarship has focused broadly on the ways that different peoples have imagined and debated education across time and space. He has authored books about sex and alcohol education, history and religion in the curriculum, Americans who taught overseas, and historical memory in public schooling. His most recent work examines campus politics in the United States, including controversies over diversity, sexual assault and political correctness.

Zimmerman has received book and article prizes from the American Educational Research Association, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and the History of Education Society, where he served as president in 2009-2010. He is co-editor of the American Institutions and Society book series at Cornell University Press and also of the History and Philosophy of Education series at the University of Chicago Press.

His academic work has appeared in the Journal of American History, the Teachers College Record, and History of Education Quarterly. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books and other popular newspapers and magazines.