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A focal point for the humanities at Emory University, advancing teaching, public engagement, and programming across all humanistic fields.

Interdisciplinary in the best sense of the word, the FCHI serves all those at Emory University and beyond who are interested in the compelling critical, spiritual, aesthetic, moral, and intellectual questions which the humanities address. Outreach to scholars in the Social Sciences, the Sciences, and the Professional Schools at Emory, as well as to the general public, is a vital part of the FCHI's work.

08/26/2026

Welcome back! It's a new semester at the Fox Center, and we're excited to bring together scholars, writers, and artists for a range of free events and programs. Here's a preview of what's coming up this fall:
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9/16 - Book Launch: "And the Cow Burned" by Raymond De Luca, Asst. Prof. Russian Studies. 3pm in the Center for Ethics. Open to all.

RSVP to attend:⁠ https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/CCJhdjbktT
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9/22 - CMBC Lecture: "Attention Studies: Configuring a New 'Interdisciplinary Discipline'" by Marion Thain (). 4pm in Math & Science Center, Room 208. Open to all, no RSVP required.⁠
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10/8 - The World According to Sound: An Immersive Audio Experience. Two showtimes: 4pm & 7pm in Emory Student Center Multi-Purpose Room 4. Open to all.⁠

Claim tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1997498958155?aff=oddtdtcreator
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11/9 - Book Launch: "Ascetic Images" by Achille Castaldo, Asst. Prof. Italian Studies. 4pm in the Center for Ethics. Open to the Emory community only.⁠

RSVP to attend:⁠ https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/1sEx9TcxTC
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11/19 - Habitat Keynote Lecture by acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh. 4pm in the Jones Room, Woodruff Library. Open to all, but limited capacity.⁠

Register now: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/sdYAve9cW9
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12/7 - Book Launch: "Collecting Antiquity in Modern China: Artifacts and Their Afterlives" by Guangchen Chen, Asst. Prof. Chinese and Comparative Literature. 4pm in the Center for Ethics. Open to all.⁠

RSVP to attend:⁠ https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/fgBtqQcvxf

08/05/2026

📣 The Fox Center is excited to announce our 2026-27 Habitat Fellows! Over this academic year, our Fellows will be a part of an interdisciplinary community as their research explores how humans interact with their surroundings amid environmental crises and technological change.

Faculty Fellows:
* Paul Buchholz, German Studies
* Lydia Fort, Theater Studies
* Roxani Margariti, MESAS
* Harsh*ta Kamath, MESAS

URC-Fox Faculty Fellow:
* Geovani Ramírez, English

Visiting Faculty Fellows:
* Yanni Loukissas, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Cristian Padilla Romero, Liberal Studies, Mercer University
* Kathryn Wilson, History, Georgia State University

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows:
* Melanie Ball, Architecture
* Yandong Li, Cinema and Media Studies

N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics:
* Grace Hayes, English

Dissertation Completion Fellows:
* Nathan Goldberg, Art History
* Hayley Roy, History
* Anmol Sahini, English

Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows:
* Francisca Bravo Tizza, Human Health
* Emma Faz, Classics/History
* Hannah Hansford, Arabic
* Diya Hebbar, Spanish
* Leilani Hoff, Anthropology and Human Biology
* Ethan Kim, English and Creative Writing
* Anissa Patel, Environmental Science (Social Science & Policy)
* Cabot Postol, History
* Jaanaki Radhakrishnan, Anthropology and Religion
* Giselle Salazar, Anthropology
* William Shan, History
* Eloise So, History/English
* Hannah Xu, Ancient Mediterranean Studies
* Lauren Yee, Religion

Learn more about our Habitat Fellows and their projects: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/habitat-fellows-announcement.html

Learn more about our Undergraduate Fellows and their projects: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/2026-27-undergraduate-honors-fellows.html

07/29/2026

Congratulations to 2025–26 Life/Story Fellow Héctor Alvarez on the Chicago premiere of his play "The School of Memory"!

Developed during his fellowship at the Fox Center, the production examines historical memory and forgetting through the story of Héctor's paternal great-grandfather, whose life was cut short during the Spanish Civil War.

Héctor credits the Fox fellowship community with helping shape the play: "I’m so indebted and grateful to [the Fox Center] for allowing me the time to work on this project. The feedback directly shaped the play, and I’m so honored I got to develop it with the community of fellows."

Learn more: https://www.theatre-y.com/the-school-of-memory
Revisit our Fellow Focus series with Héctor: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/fellow-focus-hector.html

06/29/2026

Last but not least, the Fox Center is pleased to spotlight 2025-26 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Eunjae Thompson.
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Eunjae's senior thesis traced the life of Saartjie Baartman, a young Khoisan woman who was trafficked into Europe in 1810 and assigned the immortal identity as the so-called “Hottentot Venus.” In this interview, Eunjae discusses both their project and their next steps after graduation.⁠
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When asked what the most rewarding part of the Fox fellowship was for them, Eunjae had this to say:⁠
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"The camaraderie has certainly been the most rewarding for me. It has been a privilege to work alongside such brilliant thinkers and mentors from whom I've learned so much. The emphasis on diverse humanistic projects and perspectives has even made a simple visit to the Carlos museum here on campus incredibly meaningful."⁠
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Congratulations, Eunjae! Visit the http://bit.ly/4vEj7T5 to read the full interview.

06/17/2026

Juneteenth, otherwise known as “Emancipation Day” or “Freedom Day,” is a day to remember and celebrate the end of slavery in the United States.

If you are in Atlanta, there are a variety of ways to celebrate in and around town:

June 19-21: Come on down to Piedmont Park for the 14th annual Juneteenth parade & music festival! While the festival will host three full days of activities and vendors, the parade will take place on the 20th at 10 am. Visit https://bit.ly/4aURM6v for more information.

June 19, all day: The Hapeville Depot Museum will be hosting special programing in celebration of the holiday. All activities are free and open to the public. For a posted schedule, see https://bit.ly/4ovJUOD.

June 19, 11 am: Join the City of Roswell for a free Black Experience Tour at Barrington Hall. Learn about the enslaved experience in Roswell. For more information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/4eszbj8.

June 19, 6 pm: Enjoy a free screening of “Maynard,” a documentary about Atlanta’s first African-American mayor, at Historic Oakland Cemetery. There will be food trucks and kids activities as part of their “Finally, Friday” series.

06/12/2026

June is Pride Month! Join the Fox Center as we celebrate and center LGBTQ pride and the history of the LGBTQ movement.

If you are looking for reading material this month, consider “Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence” (Duke University Press, 2013) by former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Christina Hanhardt (University of Maryland).

“Safe Space” was the winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize and its Lora Romero Prize. In it, Hanhardt rewrites the story of the LGBT movement in the United States in the context of urban development, race, and US policy.

Learn more: https://www.dukeupress.edu/safe-space

06/05/2026

Happy Friday! Today we are spotlighting 2025-26 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow Kate Richardson.

Kate's senior thesis is titled, "The Life of Marian Diamond: Biography as Contextualization for the Regression of S*x Equalized Research within Neuroscience."

By reconstructing Diamond’s legacy to recenter the narrative on previously excluded material, Kate highlights how biographical storytelling can challenge dominant narratives and reveal systemic patterns of exclusion. As Kate said herself when she sat down with the Fox Center for her spotlight interview,

“The scientific method usually regards personal stories as erroneous or distracting from “hard” scientific truth. I believe that, through personal narrative, we can understand the impacts of science and how we do science.”

Now a graduated member of the Class of 2026, Kate will be working as a Genetic Counseling Assistant in the Atlanta Healthcare network while applying to her master’s program in Genetic Counseling.

To read our full interview with Kate, visit https://bit.ly/4ujdF6m.

Congrats, Kate!

06/01/2026

This week, we are pleased to spotlight 2025-26 Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Catholic Studies Susan Reynolds! Her new book project, "Ways of the Cross," examines the narrative and ritual form of Christ’s passion as a way of telling different life stories.

In this interview, Susan discusses more about her experience as a 2025-26 Life/Story fellow and how her relationship to her own discipline has been deepened through the Fox Center fellowship.

"Every time I read a piece by one of my colleagues, I am astounded by how much I'm able to connect to it, even though it's in a discipline completely outside my own. The opportunity to have my own work read by colleagues who are outside my discipline has given rise to such rich and important insights, some of which have genuinely transformed my own vision of the project.

This is what a university is at its best. When you dream of a faculty job, or dream of teaching and working in a university, this is the kind of experience that you dream of."

Read the full interview now: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/fellow-focus-susan.html

05/29/2026

Summer may be in session, but we are still celebrating our 2025-26 Life/Story fellows!⁠
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This week, we are excited to spotlight Faculty Fellow Hwisang Cho. Hwisang is Associate Professor of Korean Studies at Emory University. In this conversation, Hwisang discusses his new book project, the importance of interdisciplinarity, and the benefits of breaking with routine.⁠
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In reflecting on the ways in which the fellowship has helped Hwisang out of his own disciplinary crisis, he had this to say:⁠
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"I think I'm sharpening my position at the disciplinary crossroad in more elegant ways through this fellowship because I appreciate the conversations that I have with the other fellows from different disciplines like anthropology, theology, theater and literature. These conversations help me to communicate in better ways with people across different disciplines. And, in a way, I can free myself from this burden that I have felt as a historian. Now I am trying to write something that is relatable to the informed readers."⁠
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Visit https://bit.ly/4dEL7PT to read Hwisang's full interview.

05/20/2026

This week, we're spotlighting Faculty Fellow and Emory Anthropology Assoc. Professor Kristin Phillips ✨⁠
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During her fellowship year, Kristin worked on her book project "Light Bills & Black Lives" that examines the ways in which the energy system in Georgia and high electricity bills impact people's abilities to pay their rent, to buy food, to purchase medications, to make homes, and to live a good life.⁠
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On her favorite part of her Fox Fellowship, Kristin shared:⁠
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"I've always loved working at Emory. It's such a stimulating place. I wear a lot of different hats at Emory, and I've loved what all those have helped me to do and to become. But having this time and space here has felt very nurturing in terms of my scholarship and provided me with focus that is really hard to get when you're in the thick of teaching, mentoring, and service. [T]o have this dedicated time has been a unique blessing."⁠
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This spring, Kristin was also awarded a $1 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to study the impact of the rapid growth of data centers.

Read more about this special honor: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2026/01/esc_sloan_grant_funds_15-01-2026/story.html
Check out Kristin's full spotlight interview: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/fellow-focus-kristin.html

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