Global Georgia Initiative – Global Georgia Program Research Projects

With the support of a major 2018 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Willson Center has funded 11 one- to three-year (extended to a fourth year due to COVID-19) research projects by UGA humanities and arts faculty and students beginning in 2019. The grant-funded projects are part of the Willson Center’s expanded Global Georgia Initiative, and are clustered into two research areas:

Coastal Studies

• Editing Empire: British Anthologies and School Readers in the Caribbean
• Experiencing the Past and Future History of Coastal Georgia (This project belongs to both the Coastal Studies and Global Studies of the American South categories.)
• Racial Disparities in Real Estate and the Transformation of the Coastal Southeast
• Transnationalism and the Red Atlantic (This project belongs to both the Coastal Studies and Global Studies of the American South categories.)

Global Studies of the American South

• Black Southern Activism: A Transatlantic Legacy
• DJ Summits in the Global South
• Global Brotherhood: Freemasonry in Georgia, Athens, and at the University of Georgia
• Graduate Student Conference: Capitalist Souths
• Performing Georgia’s Carceral Histories
• Podcasts:  “Inquest” and “Dirty History”
• The Southern Strategies of Early Modern Empires (circa 1444–1800)