Kazery to deliver 2025 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecture
Joseph Kazery has spent the last 12 years helping Mississippi College students gain a better grasp of the world around them.
As the MC Distinguished Lecturer Committee’s selection for the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecture, the assistant professor of biological sciences will explore what matters most in his universe.
Kazery will present “What’s Important . . . At Least to Me,” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in the Jean Pittman Williams Recital Hall in the Aven Fine Arts Building on the Clinton campus. All MC faculty, staff and students are invited to the free presentation.
“I plan to discuss being genuine and seeing past the superficial façade of the world to see what is truly important in life,” Kazery said. “I pray to get the point across.”
Kazery will draw from a wide range of perspectives for the presentation. The popular instructor is also a talented researcher and advisor. He serves as the director of the University’s annual Fall STEM Research Symposium, and he recently earned Mississippi College’s inaugural Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advisor Award.
He regards being selected to present the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecture as a significant achievement.
“There are so many wonderful educators here at MC that are far more deserving, and to be chosen by these amazing and extraordinary colleagues is an incredible honor,” he said. “I am deeply grateful to those who selected me.
“I typically would not describe myself as distinguished, so to be selected is quite humbling.”
Bestowed annually since 1988, the lectureship recognizes outstanding faculty members in the School of Christian Studies and the Arts, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, or the School of Science and Mathematics who demonstrate effective teaching, service to the institution and scholarship in their chosen field.
Kazery is a former chemistry and biology teacher at Clinton High School. The Jackson native volunteers as a diver with his son, Jaden, at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.
After graduating from the University of Mississippi, Kazery earned his master’s degree from Mississippi College, where his wife, Ashley, also graduated. He then earned his Ph.D. from Jackson State University.
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