Director
Allan Kulikoff, Professor and Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of History
Allan Kulikoff, Professor and Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of History
The University of Georgia campus is a divided space. Each department sits in its own place, and interactions among the disciplines are sporadic. The Global Capitalism Initiative (GCI) intends to remedy this spacial disconnect by creating a coalition of diverse departments, including history, geography, philosophy, sociology, English, and economics, under the unifying theme of Global Capitalism. Each year of the three year grant period, the GCI will put on the Capfest film festival, a graduate student conference on Global Capitalism and the Global South (GCGS conference), and an ongoing monthly workshop series. This inclusive cluster will link faculty and graduate students together in order to facilitate an alliance and collaboration, linking diverse scholars under the broad theme of Global Capitalism and the Global South. By working together, the cluster aims to increase the visibility of the University of Georgia as a leader in the study of Global Capitalism.