Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of graffiti-covered saltpeter caves manage to conjure both the too-perfect beauty of contemporary nature photographs and the urban grit of images of tagged subways and warehouses. Return is on display...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...and a demonstrated passion for the documentary arts. The director will supervise a management team with thirty-two full-time and approximately forty part-time staff and faculty. The Center has an operating...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...and mortality. Amidst the diversity of ways we’ve managed the many interruptions and anxieties, the unknowing and the seeming to know, there’s shared understanding of a narrowing and shortening of...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he served as the project manager for the imagineRio project at Rice University....
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Cultures, MELUS, the Bitter Southerner, American Quarterly, and American Literature, among others. Screenshot of Delerme's article on the Southern Spaces website. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. The class divided into teams...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...international health concern for the United States military. Deployment of American soldiers to the Pacific theater, where malarious conditions prevailed, made the disease a matter of national urgency. No longer...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...was sponsored by Emory's American Studies Program and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library with support from the Hightower Fund. About the Author Elizabeth Engelhardt, professor of American...