Ryan Kelly, a undergraduate honors student and history major, recently presented a paper at the virtual conference “In Sickness and in Health: Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art” along with Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor of History. Their talk was titled “Picturing the Pox in Italian Popular Prints, 1550-1650.” The event ran from January 12-13, 2021, and was hosted by the University of Haifa in Israel.
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History Majors Gaytán, Kelly, Hutton, and Katz Selected as Fox Fellows
Four Emory History majors have been selected as Spring 2021 Fox Center Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows. Nayive Gaytán (Spanish and History), Ryan Kelly (History and Art History), Colin Hutton (History), and Cameron Katz (History and English/Creative Writing) will benefit from the Fox Center’s intellectual community next semester as they complete their honors research projects. Read more about the Fox Fellows programs here.
Coleman, Shan, and Hutton Present Undergraduate Honors Thesis Proposals
Please join us this coming Thursday, November 5, at 4:20pm to learn about the latest history honors research projects. Three undergraduates, Ayriel Coleman, Brian Shan, and Colin Hutton, will present their work on the history of drug use in America, the racialization of Chinese Americans, and gardening in West Virginia coal mining towns. If you have not received the zoom link via email, please contact Prof. Eckert at aeckert [at] emory [dot] edu
Faculty-Undergraduate Workshop Convenes to Discuss Chapter from Montalvo’s ‘Archives of the Enslaved’
Undergraduate students and faculty gathered on Wednesday, October 28, 2020, for a virtual workshop to discuss a chapter from Assistant Professor Maria R. Montalvo‘s book Archive of the Enslaved: Power, Enslavement, and the Production of the Past. The conversation focused on enslaved people, illness, and commodification in the antebellum courtroom.
Katz, Park, and Kelly Present Undergraduate Honors Thesis Proposals
Please join us this coming Thursday, October 29, at 4:20pm to learn about the latest history honors research projects. Three students, Cameron Katz, Sun Woo Park, and Ryan Kelly, will present their work on felon disenfranchisement in Florida, the time of South Korea’s president Kim Dae-jung at Emory, and the representation of syphilis in Renaissance art. If you have not received the zoom link via email, please contact Prof. Eckert at aeckert [at] emory [dot] edu.
Morales and Charak Win 2019-20 Clio Prizes for Historical Writing
Each year the History Department awards the Clio prizes to the best research paper in a junior/senior History Colloquium and to the best paper in a Freshman History Seminar. Congratulations to the 2019-20 prize winners:
The Clio Prize for the best paper written in a freshman seminar has been awarded to Regina Morales for her work, “Hijas de Immigrantes.” Prof. Allen E. Tullos nominated Morales.
The Clio Prize for the best research paper written in a junior/senior colloquium has been awarded to Hannah Charak for her paper, “The ‘Fruits of Talmadgeism’ Violence and Voter Suppression in the 1946 Georgia Democratic Primary.” Prof. Jason Morgan Ward nominated Charak.
History Major James Goodman Wins Fellowship at James Weldon Johnson Institute
Congratulations to Jason Goodman on winning one of the coveted undergraduate fellowships at the James Weldon Johnson Institute (JWJI) for the Study of Race and Difference. Jason is a history major and is undertaking a fascinating cultural history of mass incarceration in the late twentieth century United States. The U.S. became the most punitive country in the world not only through the passage of harsh sentencing laws and massive investments in prisons and policing, but also through changes in the nation’s political culture. Popular culture became a site in which an increasingly punitive political culture was reflected, reinforced, and occasionally contested. Jason’s work aims to shed new light on how films worked to legitimize harsh punishment. The fellowship will provide Jason with a work space at the JWJI House for the remainder of the 2020-’21 academic year, a book allowance, and academic mentoring.
Junior History Major Annie Li Selected as a 2020-2021 Imagining America Joy of Giving Something Fellow
Junior history and sociology double major Annie Li is among eight undergraduates nationwide selected as a 2020-2021 Imagining America Joy of Giving Something Fellow. The fellowship, which includes a tuition scholarship, mentorship and financial support for a community arts project, recognizes Li’s work on Emory’s “Stories from the Pandemic” project. For her community arts project, Li plans to make a film about the experiences of Chinese Americans in Atlanta during the emergence and spread of COVID-19. This idea was inspired by a spring 2020 course on Asian-American history that Li took with Dr. Chris Suh, Assistant Professor of History. Learn more about the fellowship via the Emory News Center’s article, “Emory student receives fellowship grant for humanities work.”
‘AJC’ Cites Investigative Work of Miller and Hartstein in ‘Fake News’ FYS
Dr. Judith Miller and sophomore history major Edina Hartstein tracked a disturbing recent news item about an alleged child smuggling ring. Their work was cited in the Atlanta Journal Constitution article, “Feds cobbled criminal cases together in missing children operation, creating false perception.” Read an excerpt from the article below along with more about Miller’s course on “fake news” via the Emory News Center’s feature from last year, “‘Fake News’ class helps students learn to research and identify false information.”
“Judith Miller, an associate history professor at Emory University who teaches a class on “fake news,” tracked Operation Not Forgotten’s course on social media and in news coverage as it evolved into descriptions of a “criminal enterprise” on cable TV news shows, then became a subject of the false mythology of QAnon.”
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.