Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
The University of Georgia
The series highlights the sorts of questions and analytical modes that are characteristic of humanistic thinking, while making connections through mutual interests in pop culture.
McCaskill, professor of English and an associate academic director of the Willson Center, is the principal investigator of a grant awarded by the Henry Luce Foundation for “Gullah Visions: St. Helena Island Through the Works of Self-Taught Artist Sam Doyle.
The Provost’s Office website provides guidance to faculty as to which awards would be appropriate to pursue during various stages of their career.
The associate professor of religion and director of the Center for Theologically Engaged Anthropology is the principal investigator of a five-year, $234,671 John Templeton Foundation grant researching religious change on a global scale.
The grant-funded project has led to the creation of three murals in a local public high school and a successful Tiktok competition, both aimed at increasing vaccine confidence through community participation in the arts.
Faculty and students at UGA continued to showcase the world-class quality of their research, teaching, and public engagement during the 2021-22 academic year, once again collecting highly competitive national and international honors and awards across a variety of fields.
Anina Major and Tamika Galanis’s residency is part of the Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District partnership of the Willson Center and Penn Center on St. Helena Island, SC
The Willson Center manages the competition process to nominate up to two faculty from UGA who will then have until September 21, 2022 to apply directly to the NEH for the stipend.
Students and faculty from Spelman College, Morehouse College, Emory University, the College of Charleston, and UGA will participate in classes and workshops at Penn Center and in the surrounding Sea Islands region.
Culture and Community at the Penn Center Historic Landmark District, a Mellon Foundation-funded partnership between the Willson Center and St. Helena, South Carolina’s historic Penn Center, held two community conversations this spring, the program’s first public events since launching in 2021.
The Willson Center has supported a new round of Shelter Projects, a micro-fellowship program to support graduate students in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the pandemic through the arts and humanities.
The 2022 MFA graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art and Willson Center Graduate Research Awardee talks about her work with Ideas for Creative Exploration, a Willson Center Public Impact Grant, and her exciting next step in higher education.
Graduate students Meredith Emery (Art) and Amit Kaushik (Anthropology) represented UGA during the three-day event themed, “Learning in Liminal Spaces: Transformative Visions for the 21st Century.”
A partnership between the Willson Center and South Carolina’s Penn Center is kicking off a suite of programs this spring that will include community conversations, artists-in-residence, and on-site classes and workshops with students and faculty from colleges and universities across the Southeast.
The 2022 Global Georgia Initiative public events series continues throughout the spring with talks, readings, performances, and conversations with leading thinkers in the humanities and arts.
