James Herbert Williams, Ph.D. (left), associate dean of academic affairs in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, special assistant to the chancellor for urban and community initiatives and the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, speaks during the Sept. 14 faculty forum titled “Storms, Politics and the Destruction of the American Gulf Coast: A Washington University Faculty Roundtable on What Hurricane Katrina Wrought.” Looking on are T.R. Kidder, Ph.D. (center), professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and John Baugh, Ph.D., chair of African and African American Studies in Arts & Sciences and the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences. The forum, during which faculty from multiple disciplines discussed the social, economic and cultural impacts of Hurricane Katrina, was sponsored by American Culture Studies and the Center for the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences; the Center for Joint Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences; and the Center on Urban Research and Policy.