{"id":2767,"date":"2018-03-06T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2018-03-06T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:07:53","slug":"crespino-featured-as-one-of-emorys-fab-five-in-emory-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2018\/03\/06\/crespino-featured-as-one-of-emorys-fab-five-in-emory-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino Featured as One of Emory&#8217;s &#8220;Fab Five&#8221; in &#8216;Emory Magazine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Emory Magazine<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>featured\u00a0Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a>, Jimmy Carter Professor of History, in their winter edition as one of Emory&#8217;s &#8220;Fab Five&#8221; professors. The specializations of the profiled scholars span from history and English to biology and psychology. The article highlights Crespino&#8217;s scholarly trajectory with a particular focus on his interest in\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0<\/em>protagonist Atticus Finch. Check out the excerpt below and also read the full profile, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emory.edu\/EMORY_MAGAZINE\/issues\/2018\/winter\/features\/Faculty.html\">Fab 5: Meet a few of the Emory scholars who are blurring lines, bridging disciplines, and pushing boundaries<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Long before Joe Crespino became a professor in Emory College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 Department of History, he read To Kill a Mockingbird as a middle schooler in Macon, Mississippi. Growing up in the 1970s in a town much like Harper Lee\u2019s fictional Maycomb, Alabama\u2014where racial tensions were \u201cvery real and very palpable\u201d\u2014Crespino formed a singular attachment to the figure of Atticus Finch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou read this and you want to grow up and help your community and help your state\u2014to grow up and be like Atticus Finch,\u201d Crespino says. \u201cMost people who read the book realize at some point that Atticus Finch is not a real person and they move on with their lives, but I just kind of got hung up on that, I guess.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emory Magazine\u00a0featured\u00a0Dr. Joseph Crespino, Jimmy Carter Professor of History, in their winter edition as one of Emory&#8217;s &#8220;Fab Five&#8221; professors. The specializations of the profiled scholars span from history and English to biology and psychology. The article highlights Crespino&#8217;s scholarly trajectory with a particular focus on his interest in\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird\u00a0protagonist Atticus Finch. Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}