On Sept. 16 the third season of the “Buried Truths” podcast will launch. The season centers on the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man pursued in February by three armed white men near the coastal city of Brunswick. The seven-episode series is based on research by students and professor Hank Klibanoff, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, director and co-teacher of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, and the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism. Read the Emory News Center’s recent article featuring the upcoming season: “Podcast based on Emory class focuses new season on Ahmaud Arbery killing.”
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Miller and Payne Featured in Article on Innovative Approaches to Remote Instruction
The Emory News Center recently featured two History Department faculty members in an article on how instructors across campus have adapted in-person classes to virtual environments owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Titled “Professors become students to prepare dynamic remote instruction,” the article features Dr. Judith A. Miller and Dr. Matthew J. Payne. Read about their innovative approaches to remote teaching and learning here.
Anderson Discusses Voting Rights and Voter Suppression in ‘AJC’ and on ‘Utah Public Radio’
Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently featured on Utah Public Radio and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Anderson was a guest on Access Utah in advance of speaking at the the Voting Rights Symposium at Utah State University on September 17. Anderson was also a prominent contributor to the recent AJC opinion piece, “Trench warfare over the right to vote has arrived in Georgia.” Read an excerpt from the AJC piece below along with the full article here.
“Voter fraud is rare. And Georgia voters faced widespread administrative failures during this primary. Documented failures. What we really need to be having is a conversation about providing reassurance, calm and clarity,” Anderson said.
– Carol Anderson, “Trench warfare over the right to vote has arrived in Georgia.”
Anderson Pens Op-Ed for ‘The Boston Globe’
Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, recently published an opinion piece in The Boston Globe. Titled “The Supreme Court’s starring role in democracy’s demise,” the article critiques the Supreme Court’s lack of action to protect Black Americans’ voting rights in the midst of increasing disenfranchisement due to voter suppression tactics and the COVID-19 pandemic. Read an excerpt below along with the full article here.
“In a series of recent decisions imperiling voters’ access to the ballot box, the Supreme Court acted as if COVID-19 barely existed and the laws Republicans passed for absentee ballots were actually about election security and not outright disfranchisement. The first instance was the stunning decision in April that forced Wisconsin voters, in the middle of a pandemic, to make a Hobson’s choice between the right to vote or their own safety. In an unsigned decision by the five conservative justices, COVID-19 was barely mentioned, only that the tens of thousands of requested absentee ballots, which had not yet even arrived in the homes of voters by that night, still had to be postmarked by the next day to count. The result was that many in Wisconsin stood in line, risked their health to vote, and paid the horrible price by contracting the virus.“
– Carol Anderson, “The Supreme Court’s starring role in democracy’s demise,” The Boston Globe
Suddler to Moderate Decatur Book Festival Panel
Assistant Professor Carl Suddler will moderate the panel “Crime Fiction Down South” at the upcoming Decatur Book Festival. The panelists include award-winning novelists Tom Mullen, Attica Locke and S.A. Cosby, whose hard-hitting crime fiction is set in Georgia, Texas, and Virginia (respectively). These authors will discuss crime fiction along with Suddler and Emory graduate student Kareem Joseph. The free and online event is Monday, Sept. 14, 6:30 p.m. Register for this event here.
Upcoming Event Series: Conversations on Racism, Injustice, and Incarceration in the U.S.
Join us this semester for a series titled “Conversations on Racism, Injustice, and Incarceration in the U.S.” These conversations are part of the seminar “HIST 488RW: Mass Incarceration Beyond the New Jim Crow,” taught by Assistant Professor of History Carl Suddler. To register and receive the Zoom link, please email Becky Herring (becky.herring@emory.edu).
Lal Pens Op-Ed for ‘The Indian Express’
Dr. Ruby Lal, Professor of South Asian Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, recently wrote an op-ed for The Indian Express. The piece examines connections between the biographies of U.S. vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Mughal Empress Nur Jahan (1577-1645), the focus of Lal’s 2018 book Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Read an excerpt from the article below along with the full piece here: “There are parallels between the stories of Mughal Empress Nur Jahan & US vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.”
Although four hundred years apart, the life story of Senator Kamala Harris, vice-presidential nominee for the 2020 US election, and the Mughal Empress Nur Jahan, resonate deeply. Both leaders are daughters of migrants who went to new countries in search of a better future; both were raised by strong mothers in mixed ethnic and racial cosmopolitan communities. What connects them above all is experience-building, the slow work of accumulation of power — and their rise as strong and compassionate female leaders.
Suddler Among Panelists for “Emory Faculty Speak: On This Time (Summer 2020) and This Place (ATL)” Discussion
Assistant Professor of History Carl Suddler participated in a faculty panel as a part of new student orientation in mid August. Suddler was joined by three other Emory faculty panelists, Pearl Dowe, Gregory Ellison, and Tayari Jones, as well as moderator Andra Gillespie. The conversation centered on our current historic moment, the convergence of social and health inequities and the need for advocacy, the importance of Atlanta, and the ways students can productively process and engage with these issues. Read more about the event here.
Anderson Quoted in ‘The 19th’ Article on Race and Suffrage
Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in an article published on The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. Titled “‘We’ versus ‘Me’: Suffrage centennial exposes vote gap in Black and White women,” the piece charts the divergent histories of voting rights activism, organizing, and victories for Black and White women from the movement to pass the 19th amendment through the present. Read an excerpt quoting Anderson below along with the full piece.
In the century since White women won access to the ballot, they have often sided with White men, choosing their race over their gender to maintain an unequal America, says Carol Anderson, Emory University professor and author of “One Person, No Vote.”
“Black women’s political power has been about strengthening the United States,” Anderson said. “For White women, it has been about entrenching White supremacy. It is about the ‘we’ versus the ‘me.’ And it’s that difference in framing that is fundamental.”
Klibanoff Awarded New Arts and Social Justice Fellowship
In the fall 2020 semester Emory inaugurated the Arts and Social Justice (ASJ) Fellowship program, which pairs Emory faculty and students with Atlanta artists to examine how creative thinking and artistic expression can inspire positive social change. One of the recipients of the inaugural fellowship is Hank Klibanoff, the director and co-teacher of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project and the James M. Cox Jr. Professor of Journalism. Klibanoff is paired with actor Garrett Turner, an Emory alumnus as well as former Woodruff and Bobby Jones Scholar. Their work will center on the lives and times of known victims of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre. Read more about the collaboration and the other members of the inaugural ASJ cohort here: “Emory faculty, students join forces with Atlanta artists to explore social justice.”