Christopher Brown (PhD student) has been awarded the 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association João Havelange Research Scholarship from the Centre International D’etude du Sport to support his research.
Patrick N. Allitt on NPR Show ‘Think’
Patrick N. Allitt spoke about the history of discourse on global warming for Think’s edition, “Earth’s Climate Problems.” Audio for the show can be accessed directly here.
Debjani Bhattacharyya (PhD student) Receives The History Project Research Grant
Debjani Bhattacharyya (PhD student) has been awarded The History Project Research Grant given by the History Project and the Joint Centre for History and Economics and the Institute of New Economic Thinking from Harvard-Camrbidge’s Centre for History and Economics. Her research project is titled, “Risky Credit: The Commercial World of the Bay of Bengal from 1800 to 1940.”
Crais Publishes New Work, ‘History Lessons’
Clifton Crais has just published a new book, History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the Brain (Overlook, 2014; distributed by Penguin).
Astrid M. Eckert on ‘The Monuments Men – Culture as Collateral’
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In the new episode of “Emory Looks at Hollywood,” Astrid M. Eckert, Associate Professor of History, talks about the fate of art and culture during wartime – past and present. Eckert’s book The Struggle for the Files (2012) covered the work of the military unit Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) in the field of archival protection.
Lesser Talks Identity in Brazil for “Life of the Mind” Series
Jeff Lesser is presenting a talk titled “Identities and Their Flexibilities: Brazil in the Americas” as part of the 2014 Life of the Mind series.
Conis’ “Vaccines and Society” Named “Spring 2014 Cool Course”
Professor Elena Conis has designed a freshman seminar titled “Vaccines and Society.” The seminar was profiled as one of Emory’s “cool courses” for spring 2014.
Update from Zach Domach
Zach Domach graduated in 2013 with a BA/MA, Highest Honors, in Classics/History. He was the winner of the 2012-2013 Cuttino Prize in the History Department. Currently he is earning a Master of Studies in Theology: Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford. At Oxford he is a member of Trinity College, where he holds the George and Apphia Woodruffe Scholarship in Theology (no relation to Emory’s George Woodruff) and is also jointly funded (in addition to the Woodruffe Scholarship) by an Arts & Humanities Research Council award. Zach plays the double bass in the Oxford University Orchestra, the Oxford University Philharmonia, and the Oxford Millennium Orchestra. He is learning a new language this year: Syriac, which is a dialect of Aramaic related to Hebrew and Arabic. He is also currently applying to PhD programs in the States (in History, Classics, and Religion depending on the school/program).
The photos are from his Summer 2013 spent doing archaeology in Greece.
Zachary Domach 13C 13G supervising Trench 3 in a surface cleaning of the theatre. Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Greece.
Zachary Domach 13C 13G with a fragment of calcareous sandstone from the Nike Precinct. Hall E, Samothrace Museum, Samothrace, Greece.
Zachary Domach 13C 13G surveying the topography of the Nike Precinct with the Hieron in the background. Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Greece.
Judith Evans Grubbs: Violence and “The Hunger Games”
In the latest episode of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series, Judith Evans Grubbs, Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History, looks at the use of violence as a peace keeping mechanism in “The Hunger Games” series and its roots in Roman culture.
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Crespino Discusses Political Factionalism on BackStory
Professor Joe Crespino participated in a segment titled Splintered Parties on the radio show BackStory.
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