Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and associated faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in the NBC News article “Trump’s refusal to disavow QAnon is part of his pattern of encouraging hate for political gain.” The article addresses Trump’s refusal to disavow the conspiracy group QAnon. The piece’s author, Jewish Democratic Council of America executive director Halie Soifer, writes that QAnon frequently employs “anti-Semitic tropes and age-old conspiracy theories.” Soifer draws on comments that Prof. Lipstadt posted on Twitter. Watch Dr. Lipstadt’s commentary below, and read the full NBC News article.
Month / November 2020
Erica Bruchko (PhD, ’16) Helps to Archive Generations of Black Emory Students’ Calls for Change
In August of 2020 Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves asked Dean Yolanda Cooper, the University Librarian, to research and make available online calls for change from past and present generations of Black Emory students. Dr. Erica Bruchko, a 2016 alumna of the History Department’s graduate program and librarian for African American Studies and United States history at Emory Libraries, is working to advance this project. Bruchko has published three articles so far with collaborators Jina DuVernay, collection development archivist for African American collections, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and Maureen McGavin, writer, Emory Libraries. Read about the work of generations of Black leaders and anti-racism at Emory in the first three articles to emerge from the initiative:
- “Black Students’ Activism at Emory: Past and Present,” August 17, 2020
- “Protests and Movements: From Anti-Lynching to Black Lives Matter,” September 22, 2020
- “Voting Rights: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It,” October 16, 2020