Faculty Workshops
Our HRC fellows offer workshops during which they discuss their current research. The papers for each workshop are pre-circulated. To obtain a copy, please request the paper from [email protected]. Other workshops and seminars on issues related to research in the humanities can be found under the “support for faculty” tab.
Fall 2024 Workshops
The Fall 2024 Faculty Workshops will be taking place in-person with a hybrid option.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2:30-3:45, Jaye Atkinson, Assoc. Professor & Chair, Communication
“Postin’ ‘Bout my Generation: Examining pre-COVID Age References Across Social Media Platforms”
Friday, Sept. 20, 1:00-2:15, Carrie Freshour, Assistant Professor, Geosciences
“The Home House: Black Women’s Making of the East Side, Athens 1970-present”
Friday, Oct. 11, 1:00-2:15, Rosita Scerbo, Assistant Professor, WGSS & WLC
“Reimagining Mythical Spaces: Spiritualized Afro-feminism and Decolonial Aesthetics
in the Visual Expression of Afro-Cuban Painter Harmonia Rosales”
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2:30-3:45, Matthew Sparacio, Lecturer, History
“Almanacs and the Settler Logic of Elimination in Revolutionary America”
Spring 2024 Workshops
The Spring 2024 Faculty Workshops will be taking place in-person with a hybrid option.
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2:30-3:45, David Sehat, Professor, History
“The Modernist Impulse in American Life”
Friday, March 1, 1:00-2:15, Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
“Remaking the Body of Christ: Catechisms for the ‘Mentally Handicapped’ and Catholic Ambivalence in Postwar America”
Fall 2023 Workshops
The three Fall 2023 Faculty Workshops will be taking place in-person with a hybrid option.
Friday, Sept. 22, 1:00-2:15, Marie Sumner Lott, Associate Professor, Music
“Seriously Entertaining: How Thérèse Wartel and Louise Farrenc Created an Audience for Chamber Music in 1840s Paris”
Friday, Oct. 13, 1:00-2:15, Steven Black, Associate Professor, Anthropology
“Making Health Global in Atlanta: A Historical Perspective on Values and Discourses”
Friday, Nov. 3, 1:00 to 2:15, Bethany Turner-Livermore, Professor, Anthropology
“Theorizing Gendered Foodways in the Inka Empire”
Maymester 2023 Workshop
Wednesday, May 31, 10, 2:00p.m. – 3:15p.m. Neil Van Leeuwen, Associate Professor, Philosophy
“’The Trinity and the Light Switch: Two Faces of ‘Belief””
Spring 2023 Workshops
Faculty Workshops for the Spring 2023 semester will take place virtually. Please contact [email protected] to request the meeting links.
Friday, February 10, 1:00p.m. – 2:15p.m. Kate Wilson, Associate Professor, History
“’Being like Mayberry isn’t all bad’: Memory, Landscape, and the White Spatial Imaginary in a Sunbelt Suburb”
Friday, March 3, 11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m. Stephanie Evans, Professor, Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“Black Tea History: Roots of Wellness in the African Diaspora”
Friday, March 31, 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Kathryn Kozaitis, Professor, Anthropology
“Ethnography as a Counter-colonialist Field Research Framework”
Friday, April 21, 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Vani Kannan, Scholar in Residence (Lehman College, CUNY)
“’Our Name and Our Work’: Language, Literacy, and Writing in the Pacific Coast Ghadar Party”
Fall 2022 Workshops
Faculty Workshops for the Fall 2022 semester will take place virtually. Please contact [email protected] to request the meeting links.
Friday, September 23, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Andrew J Cohen, Professor, Philosophy
“Civil Discourse about Health Care”
Friday, October 14, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Ras Michael Brown, Associate Professor, History
“Mandinga Pouches and Black Atlantic Hunting Cultures”
Friday, October 28, 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Melissa McLeod, Principal Senior Lecturer, English
“Our Bleak House: Narrative, Contagion, Space”
Friday, December 2, 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Frank Williams, Professor, Anthropology
“Plant food consumption and dietary behavior in Neandertal infants from the Pech de l’Azé and l’Horus caves, France”
Maymester 2022 Workshops
Wednesday, May 25, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Lia Bascomb, Africana Studies
Wednesday, June 1 11:30 a.m.-1:00p.m. Nick Wilding, History
Spring 2022 Workshops
Wednesday, January 26, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Carrie Manning, Political Science
Wednesday, February 23, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Tiffany Player, History
Wednesday, March 23, 10:30-11:45 a.m. Molly Bassett, Religious Studies
Fall 2021 Workshops
Thursday, September 9, 12:15-1:30 p.m. Maurice Hobson, Africana Studies
Thursday, October 7, 12:15-1:30 p.m. Nicola Sharratt, Anthropology
Thursday, November 11, 12:15-1:30 p.m Ashley Holmes, English
Maymester 2021 Workshops
Tuesday, May 25, 3:00-4:30 p.m. Diana Anselmo, Film & Media
Wednesday, June 2, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Suzie Love, Philosophy
Spring 2021 Workshops
Wednesday, February 17, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tiffany Player, History
Friday, March 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m. William Edmundson, Law & Philosophy
Spring 2020 Workshops
Tuesday, January 28th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Audrey Goodman, English, 25 Park Place, Troy Moore Library
Tuesday, February 11th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Joe Perry, History, 25 Park Place, 225 A/B
Thursday, March 5th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Dan Weiskopf, Philosophy, 25 Park Place, Troy Moore Library
Wednesday, April 15th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Leslie Marsh, World Languages and Cultures
Fall 2019 Workshops
Wednesday, September 25th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. LeeAnne M. Richardson, English, 25 Park Place, 2447
Thursday, October 31st, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Emanuela Guano, Anthropology, Sparks Hall 344
Wednesday, November 6th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Eddie Christie, English, Troy Moore Library
Monday, November 18th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Mario Feit, Political Science, Langdale Hall 1076
Spring 2019 Workshops
Wednesday, January 30th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Kimberly Cleveland, Art History
Wednesday, March 13th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. John Holman, English and Creative Writing
Tuesday, March 26th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Jen Patico, Anthropology
Tuesday, April 16th, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Molly Bassett, Religious Studies
Fall 2018 Workshops
Thursday, September 20th, 12:00-1:15 p.m. Jennie Burnet, Global Studies
Wednesday, October 3rd, 12:00-1:15 p.m. Peter Lindsay, Political Science & Philosophy
Wednesday, October 17th, 12:00-1:15 p.m. Christie Hartley, Philosophy
Tuesday, November 13th, 12:00-1:15 p.m. John McMillian, History