Parker Dunaway Presents Summer Research at Hampden-Sydney College

2014 Sep 25

Hampden-Sydney student, Parker Dunaway, recently presented his Summer Research Project in a public lecture. Students who participate in these projects are among a select group that undertake extended research which culminates in a presentation evaluated on its originality, thoroughness, and quality. His project: "Authoritarian Control to Authorial Right: The English Progression from Royal Prerogative over Copyright to Authors' Rights and Its Effect on Early American Copyright Law" was innovative and well organized.

Parker serves as President of the Society for Collegiate Journalists and the Classics Club. He also serves as Secretary of the pre-law society Phi Alpha Delta and writes for the student newspaper The Tiger. Parker is a member of the classics honor society Eta Sigma Phi, the President's Leadership Council, the H-SC Board of Publications, the Future Educators Club, and the Society of '91. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Freshman Journalist Award at Final Convocation in April 2011 and the C.T. Crawley Music Award in April 2013. He is the son of Heber E. Dunaway, Jr., MD of Baton Rouge and Kimbrell Dunaway of Jackson, MS.

A private college for men, Hampden-Sydney is ranked nationally in the top 100 of liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. The College is known for its liberal arts curriculum, the Honor Code which stresses individual and collective responsibility, and a focus on the education of young men.