{"id":7553,"date":"2025-06-05T03:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7553"},"modified":"2025-06-05T03:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:43:43","slug":"alex-minovici-c-25-receives-inaugural-fox-center-undergraduate-honors-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/06\/05\/alex-minovici-c-25-receives-inaugural-fox-center-undergraduate-honors-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Minovici (C &#8217;25) Receives Inaugural Fox Center Undergraduate Honors Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alex-minovici-headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alex-minovici-headshot.png 750w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alex-minovici-headshot-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alex-minovici-headshot-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent Emory graduate and history major Alex Minovici has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry&#8217;s Undergraduate Honors Award for the thesis, &#8220;Singe Spaima: The 1989 Revolution and the Politics of Violence in Socialist and Post Socialist Romania.&#8221; Minovici, who completed a double major in Philosophy, Politics, and Law, produced the thesis as an Undergraduate Honors Fellow at the Fox Center over the 2025-26 academic year. &#8220;Singe Spaima&#8221; received Highest Honors from the Emory Department of History. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minovici offered reflections on the thesis and experience as a fellow at the Fox Center in conversation with Karl-Mary Akre (Fox Center Communications and Outreach Coordinator). Read an excerpt below along with <a href=\"https:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/news-events\/news-articles\/fchi-award-minovici.html\">their full conversation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;what truly gives Romanian people power in their new democracy is remembering the violence and trauma with the express purpose of holding state officials accountable; refusing to forget abuses. Memory can be an act of resistance. Along these lines, I feel as if my thesis is part of a broader effort to document, remember, and respect the trauma that Romanians experienced in recent history.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Emory graduate and history major Alex Minovici has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry&#8217;s Undergraduate Honors Award for the thesis, &#8220;Singe Spaima: The 1989 Revolution and the Politics of Violence in Socialist and Post Socialist Romania.&#8221; Minovici, who completed a double major in Philosophy, Politics, and Law, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awards","category-research","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-students","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553","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\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}