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Recent News
Georgia Policy Labs Announces Engaged Research Competition Winner
Historian Ras Michael Brown will use the award to support a research-practice partnership with the Gullah Museum, a nonprofit organization based in Georgetown, S.C.read more ❯
Georgia State History, MBA Grad Has Home-Court Advantage Working for City of Atlanta
After injuries ended his college basketball career, Odie Donald II persevered and is now a chief of staff for Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.read more ❯
Georgia State Announces Grants for Research and Creative Projects in Arts and Humanities
Six faculty members undertaking research, scholarly and creative activity in the arts and humanities have been awarded internal grants to support their work.read more ❯
Somers Lecture Announcement
Ari Joskowicz of Vanderbilt will deliver the 2023 Somers Lecture on March 31 at 10:00 am in Room 2150 of 25 Park Place. His talk will be titled, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Marginalized Lives: Lessons from Holocaust Studies and Romani History.” We hope...read more ❯
Hot-Button Issues Surrounding Gender to Highlight Lecture
Perimeter College associate professor of history Dana Wiggins, Ph.D., is the featured presenter at the Sarah Larson Lecture Series on Georgia State University's Dunwoody Campus. The title of her talk is "Questioning Gender: Everything You Want to Know but Are Afraid to Ask."read more ❯
The Document Detective
Georgia State History Professor Nick Wilding, a super sleuth who uncovers forgeries of rare manuscripts, proved that a prized Galileo text is a fake.read more ❯
A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure
One of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions, which appeared to be a Galileo manuscript, is now thought to be the work of a 20th-century forger.read more ❯
Georgia State Faculty in Applied Linguistics, History, Named Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2022-23
Viviana Cortes, associate professor of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language, and Allen Fromherz, professor of Middle Eastern, Gulf, and Mediterranean History, have received prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in applied linguistics and in history, respectively.read more ❯
New Faculty Publication - Prof. David Sehat - This Earthly Frame. The Making of American Secularism has just been published by Yale University Press
This Earthly Frame
An award-winning scholar’s sweeping history of American secularism, from Jefferson to Trump “An essential book for understanding today’s culture...read more ❯
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Dr. Jared Poley
Associate Chair
Dr. Nick Wilding
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Dr. Robin Conner
Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Greg Moore
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Chad Keller
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Cristianna Mitchell
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