Christy Desmet, a beloved and highly accomplished member of the UGA department of English faculty for more than three decades, passed away on July 25. The following tribute was written by her dear friend, longtime collaborator, and fellow professor of English, Sujata Iyengar....
The Willson Center will welcome Rebecca Rutstein, an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps, to the University of Georgia as the third Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding....
The annual national conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) will be held on the UGA campus and in other Athens, Ga. venues Nov. 1-3, with the theme of Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability. The full schedule and registration information...
Stephen Mihm, associate professor in the department of history, is one of 22 recipients of grants from the Public Scholar program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which helps to fund "well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership."...
A Willson Center-linked history education initiative with rural Georgia high school students is featured in a current Buzzfeed News article profiling residents of Sapelo Island who are struggling to preserve their unique community amid the stresses of 21st-century economics, politics, and cultural shifts....
Scholars, policy experts and journalists from around the world will meet in Berlin this month to consider issues related to contemporary transnational Europe, thanks to a new joint initiative by the University of Georgia and the University of Notre Dame. The inaugural Berlin Seminar in Transnational...
A $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable the Willson Center to expand its Global Georgia Initiative, a public humanities program in place since 2013. ...
The UGA College of Education's Kristen Morales has written an excellent article about the Putnam County, Ga. local history program that is being supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Willson Center. ...
2018 has been a banner year so far for UGA faculty in the humanities and arts seeking external grants and fellowships....
The Willson Center has awarded its 2018-2019 Research Fellowships to members of the UGA faculty in the humanities and arts. These fellowships are awarded in partnership with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences....
Faculty who are interested in being nominated for Whiting Public Engagement Fellowships or Seed Grants may submit proposals to the Willson Center by May 1. The Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship and Seed Grant programs are designed for nominees whose proposed project and professional expertise are both...
UGA to host a2ru National Conference in November 2018, call for proposals now available The University of Georgia will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Nov. 1-3, 2018 on the theme of “Arts Environments: Design, Resilience,...
The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance have announced the 2018 National Humanities Conference, which will take place in New Orleans November 8 – 11, 2018....
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will present a Regional Application-Writing Workshop on February 28, 2018 at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, Georgia....
The Willson Center has been awarded $100,000 in matching funds by the National Endowment for the Humanities towards "An American Literary Landscape: Life, History, and Memory in Putnam County, Georgia."...