In summer 2022, Dr. Cassandra White was accepted to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute called “The Making of Modern Brazil,” which involved one week of virtual and two weeks of in-person exchanges, discussions, lectures, and films with contemporary scholars of Brazil. This was held at San Diego State University. Jessica Glass, an alumnus of our B.A. and M.A. programs who received her PhD in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in 2023, was also a participant. Dr. White was also invited to design a module (on health and illness in Brazil) that will be made available online as part of a Making of Modern Brazil course sponsored by the NEH.
Dr. Bethany Turner and Dr. Nicola Sharratt hosted the 2023 Southern Andeanist Scholarly Symposium (SASS) at GSU on November 11. This one-day event brought together faculty and students from several universities to discuss their recent research on the archaeology of Andean South America. The symposium was sponsored by the Georgia State University Research Services Administration and the Anthropology Department and was a rousing success. Scholars from Vanderbilt, UNC Charlotte, University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, University of the South, Arizona State University, and GSU presented and discussed their research in the Department’s Archaeology Lab in Dahlberg Hall. Georgia State Anthropology Club members also volunteered and attended.
In 2023, Drs. Bethany Turner and Steven Black were each awarded a Humanities Research Center (HRC) Fellowship. The HRC creates a community of GSU faculty fellows who provide support and feedback to each other as each works through a writing project such as a book chapter or journal article. The fellowship begins with a weekly virtual writer’s retreat during the Maymester and then continues through the following academic year with periodic workshops where each fellow presents their in-progress work for additional feedback and discussion. There were seven fellows in total in 2023.
Dr. Bethany Turner and Dr. Jeffrey Glover were awarded Research Intensive Semester (RISe) fellowships in 2023-24 in support of their ongoing research agendas.
A new interview with Dr. Louis Ruprecht, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies Director, was released by the Greek News Agenda as a part of their "Rethinking Greece" series, available at Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. on Hellenism as a vast archive of cultural experience and a foundation for modern cosmopolitanism - Greek News Agenda. Dr. Ruprecht was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic of Greece in 2022 (for more information see https://www.presidency.gr/en/hellenic-orders-decorations/order-of-the-phoenix/); the Greek Ambassador visited Atlanta to present the award in a special ceremony in spring 2023. Following from this award, Dr. Ruprecht was invited to Washington, D.C. to present a talk titled, “Hellenism Goes Global: Why the Olympics Should Matter to Philhellenes Today,” hosted by The Embassy of Greece and the Society for the Preservation of Greek Heritage (Hellenism Goes Global: Why the Olympics Should Matter to Philhellenes Today - Hellenic Studies (gsu.edu)). Dr. Ruprecht is spending the 2023-24 academic year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as its Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Professor.
Dr. Kathryn Kozaitis was an invited participant in the workshop "Culture as a Tool: Reckoning with Past and Future Use," held on Sept. 7th and 8th, 2023, at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The workshop explored the history of the culture concept in two specific domains: economic decision-making and mobility among racialized groups ("Economic Behavior and Race"), and the links between cultural and genealogical belongingness ("Genealogies as Resistance"). Dr. Kozaitis also was awarded Georgia State University’s prestigious Distinguished Alumni Professorship in 2023.