Funding
Callahan Fellowship and Civil War Studies
Sponsor: The Callahan Memorial Fund
Recipient: The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Seymour Goodman
Funding: $3,000 to support the Sam Nunn Security Program Callahan Fellow, $2,000 for Civil War Studies
Faculty Books
Lessons from Latin America (University of Toronto Press, 2014) by Kirk Bowman (Nunn School) and Felipe Arocena provides a wide-ranging exploration of the history of "looking down" at Latin America and the political, economic, and cultural lessons that should inform policy discussions.
Terminus Magazine (Issue 10), the biannual literary magazine based in Atlanta, features a collection of poems from the 2013-2014 poets of Poetry@Tech
Memory, Subjectivity, and Independent Chinese Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) by Qi Wang (LMC) provides a historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China, showcasing an evolving personal mode of narrating memory, documenting reality, and inscribing subjectivity.
The article China in Africa: Presence, Perceptions and Prospects by Fei-Ling Wang (Nunn School), which reports and analyzes China's presence in Africa with an emphasis on how that has been perceived by the Africans, was recently published in the Elliot Journal of Contemporary China (Routledge, 2014).
What Does Georgia Tech Think?
Selected Press for Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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Nitsche on Media and Academia
“All of the programs have undergone massive changes since [Digital Media at Georgia Tech] was founded in 1993. We were founded before Facebook or Twitter. We're in a difficult position — [the programs] have to change because the media changes all the time.” — Michael Nitsche (LMC) in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, October 17, 2014
Bogost on Game Development in Metro Atlanta
“The game development presence is relatively modest in Atlanta....What other locations have are video game companies that are large enough and established enough for talented workers to break off and form their own businesses. We don't have one of those giant anchor-type companies that have been here a long time. We do have a nice modest reputation of real companies doing real work.” — Ian Bogost (LMC) in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, October 17, 2014
Bogost on Ethics and Artistry in STEM
“We’ll kind of sneak that in or spread it like a glaze on top. There is sometimes a sense that we’ve decoupled computing from its cultural and artistic and humanistic context, and some of the trouble we might point to in the world we are living in—run by Wall Street and Silicon Valley—is perhaps a result of thinking of everything as just an engineering problem.” — Ian Bogost (LMC) in The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2014
Who's Afraid of the 'Islamic State'?
“One reliable predictor of how political coalitions shake out in any given situation remains one of the least explored: The ideological threats presented by non-state or quasi-state actors such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic State and other Islamist regimes may be just as, if not more, potent than the military challenges they pose.” — an opinion piece by Lawrence Rubin (Nunn School) in The Washington Post, October 2, 2014
Wang on Report on Chinese Trust in Government
“There is much anecdotal evidence that suggests such a view may be too simplistic and should not be taken for granted—one reason why we should have a healthy suspicion of the opinion report. If the questions are asked with any political meaning to it, [Chinese] people will automatically become cautious.” — Fei-Ling Wang (The Nunn School) on CNBC.com, September 22, 2014
Jordan on Terrorist Group Leadership
“Organizations that have not had their leaders removed are more likely to fall apart than those that have undergone a loss of leadership.” However, religious organizations are still “highly resistant to leadership decapitation.” — Jenna Jordan (The Nunn School) in The Atlantic, September 7, 2014
Why Walking Helps Us Think
A digital mapping project, created by undergraduate students in a Georgia Tech English 1101 composition class, on the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was cited in The New Yorker as a clarification of the novel's dependency on the link between consciousness and movement. — View the project through the link "similarly" in the first paragraph of The New Yorker article, September 3, 2014
Africa Atlanta 2014 Inspires Museum Visit
Inspired by the Africa Atlanta initiative, a local college student made the trek to visit the African art gallery at the Birmingham Museum of Art. "This matters because Africa Atlanta's goal is to reinvent bonds between Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The only way these bonds can form and last is if people across the country want them to." — Anna Democko (Georgia College student) in Global Atlanta, August 12, 2014
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EarSketch Project Awarded $3 Million NSF Grant
EarSketch, a project that uses musical remixes to introduce high school students—especially minorities and young women—to the world of computer programming, has been awarded a four-year $3 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF award is the largest grant ever associated with the Institute’s Center for Music Technology and School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC). Digital Media/LMC Associate Professor Brian Magerko is co-leading the EarSketch effort with Jason Freeman of the School of Music.
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Bowman Named to New Jon R. Wilcox Term Professorship in Soccer, Global Politics, and Society
A newly established professorship in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts will support research on the role of soccer in politics and society and the conditions in which sports and performing arts can transform the lives of children in the world’s poorest neighborhoods.
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Westside Communities Alliance Receives Chancellor's Service Award
The Westside Communities Alliance, a signature initiative of Ivan Allen College Dean Jacqueline Royster, received the USG Chancellor’s Service Excellence Team of the Year Gold Award for 2014. The awards ceremony was held Friday, October 10, at Kennesaw State University.
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Africa Atlanta 2014 Named Finalist for Governor's International Awards in Education
Dean Jacqueline Royster’s Africa Atlanta 2014 initiative was named a finalist for the Governor’s International Awards in Education. Congratulations to the Africa Atlanta 2014 team!
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Is the Middle East Burning?
Experts from the College's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs explored the situation in the Middle East, ISIS, and America's policies regarding the region. Assistant Professors Lawrence Rubin and Jenna Jordan, and Associate Professor Mikulas Fabry join Associate Professor Adam Stulberg for the standing room only discussion that was held September 19. Click here to view a two minute recap.
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Mingge Wu Receives First Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia Tech
Mingge Wu, a recent graduate from the School of Economics, became the first doctoral candidate to receive a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgia Tech in May 2014. She now works as a senior statistician for InterContinental Hotels Group after receiving master’s and Ph.D. degrees, both in economics, from Georgia Tech.
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Georgia Tech Awarded U.S. Army War College Senior Service Fellowship
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded two United States Army War College Senior Service Fellowships. Two active duty Army lieutenant colonels or colonels will spend an academic year at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs starting in fall 2015.
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Is There a Link Between Sports and Domestic Abuse?
Recent stories of intimate partner violence committed by several NFL players include questions about whether or not elite male sports figures commit violence against intimate female partners at higher rates than their non-athlete counterparts. There is some evidence to suggest this may be the case, although this is difficult to establish given that most cases of intimate partner assault are never reported to the police.
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Ivan Allen College Ranks #5 in Starting Salaries for Liberal Arts Grads
New graduates from the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts earn the fifth highest starting salaries among those with degrees in humanities and social sciences according to a new report released October 6 by NerdWallet.
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Walsh Granted U.S. Patent
John P. Walsh and Li Tang in the School of Public Policy have been granted US Patent No. 8799237, Identification Disambiguation in Databases. The patent develops a novel solution for identification disambiguation in databases of publications, patents, shopping data, and Web searching. The technology has been licensed to Search Technology.
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Alum Rebecca Rolfe on Designing for Google
Before she enrolled as a graduate student in Digital Media at Tech, Rebecca Rolfe was already an accomplished Web designer at CNN.com, where she prepared artwork for stories, made charts and graphics for the daily news desk, and even helped out with a complete site redesign in 2009.
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