Dr. Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, published an opinion editorial in The New York Times on June 4. Dudziak’s piece is entitled “The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders.” Dudziak, a leading scholar of legal history in the U.S. and world, is Associated Faculty in the History Department.
Dr. Carl Suddler recently spoke with Victor Blackwell on CNN’s New Day to discuss the history of race and police reform, the Kerner Commission, and the idea of abolition. View the interview here.
Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Chair of African American Studies, recently published an opinion piece in The Guardian. Anderson analyzes parallels between the wave of anti-black lynchings and race riots in 1919 – which came to be known as the “Red Summer” – and today. An associated faculty member in the Department of History, Anderson is, most recently, the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018). Read an excerpt from her timely article in The Guardian below, along with the full piece: “In 1919, the state failed to protect black Americans. A century later, it’s still failing.”
“As in 1919, we are dealing with an America where black and brown people must go into the streets to demand their rights because the institutions of democracy have failed to protect them. In 2020, we have a nation where large swaths of the executive, legislative and judicial branches at the federal and state levels have virtually abandoned millions of American citizens.”
Dr. Carl Suddler, Assistant Professor of History, recently joined Adam McNeil of Rutgers University to discuss his book Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York on the New Books Network podcast. Suddler published Presumed Criminal with NYU press in July 2019. Listen to the interview on the New Books Network website.
Dr. Patrick N. Allitt, Cahoon Family Professor of American History, has contributed eight lecture series to the website The Great Courses. Each day the editors of that site apply content from one of their courses to a current event making headlines. This past week they featured content from Allitt’s “History of the United States” course for a piece entitled “COVID-19 Prompts Look at the Past and Future of City Life.”
Over the past academic year History Department faculty and graduate and undergraduate students received numerous grants from Emory’s Halle Institute for Global Research. View the History Department awardees and their projects below, and see the full list of Halle grant recipients from across Emory’s campuses.
URC-Halle International Research Award:
Halle-CFDE Global Atlanta Innovative Teaching (GAIT) Grant:
Undergraduate Global Research Fellows, 2020-21:
Graduate Global Research Fellows, 2020-21:
Prof. Mary L. Dudziak, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, is a contributing author of the new book World War II and the West It Wrought (Stanford University Press, 2020). Dudziak recently participated in an webinar with the volume’s contributors: Mark Brilliant, Geraldo L. Cadava, Matthew Dallek, Jared Farmer, David M. Kennedy, Daniel J. Kevles, Rebecca Jo Plant, Gavin Wright, and Richard White. See the event, streamed on YouTube, below:
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Dr. Kenneth Stein, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, was recently featured in an article by the Atlanta Jewish Times. The piece profiles Stein’s 43 years of work inside Emory classrooms and far beyond. Read their feature here: “Stein Shares 43 Years of Wisdom with Graduates.”
Dr. Pablo Palomino, Assistant Professor of Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Mellon Faculty Fellow at Oxford College, has published The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History with Oxford University Press. The book charts how distinct musical styles of geographically and ethnically heterogeneous regions came to fall under the single category of “Latin American Music” by the mid-twentieth century. Palomino’s transnational study captures how music was a privileged field for the construction and dissemination of Latin Americanness throughout the region and in global cultural marketplaces. Read a review of The Invention of Latin American Music from Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Samuel N. Harper Professor of History at The University of Chicago, below.
“‘Latin America’, Palomino shows, was never a distinctive and coherent song or symphony; it has been a contentious key to play sundry very local and very global cultural trends. Palomino provides the first and best more-than-national account of the lasting background music of the 20th century, whose Latin Americanness was neither in the non-Westernness nor in the uniqueness of its musical scores or lyrics, but in the very struggle to play notes, to sing feelings, this way today, that other way tomorrow, producing thus collective memories which, albeit never wholly Latin American, gradually fulfilled Joaquim Nabuco’s old sense of being: ‘We are but a drop of water in the ocean. Let us be cognizant that we are water droplets, but let us also be aware that we are ocean.'” — Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Samuel N. Harper Professor of History, The University of Chicago
Congratulations to Dr. Deborah Lipstadt on receiving Emory’s 2020 Exemplary Teacher Award (formerly known as the Scholar/Teacher Award) for transformational teaching and public scholarship. Lipstadt is Associated Faculty in the History Department and Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies in the Department of Religion and The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. The award is one of the top honors given to faculty at Emory.
Michael A. Elliott, dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, nominated Lipstadt for the award, writing: “As an historian, public intellectual, teacher and mentor, her tireless commitment to scholarly rigor and to social justice are expressed in her astonishing level of service to the university, and to the broader community, all of which she models to her students.” Read a full profile of Listadt, authored by the Emory News Center’s Kimber Williams, here: “Lipstadt receives Exemplary Teacher Award for transformational teaching and public scholarship.”