Global Studies of the American South

With the support of a major 2018 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Willson Center has funded 12 three-year research projects by UGA humanities and arts faculty and graduate students beginning in 2019. The grant-funded projects are part of the Willson Center’s expanded Global Georgia Initiative, and are divided into two research categories: Coastal Studies and Global Studies of the American South.

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)