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Commencement Spring 2024
Commencement contentment

Medievalitas
May 7, 20241 min read
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Georgia Tech Medievalist carries Mace at graduation, sine effusione sanguinis
While President Cabrera wielded the light saber on May Fourth, Georgia Tech's medievalist got to carry the mace (a very techy kind of...

Medievalitas
May 5, 20241 min read
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Administrative Hiring and your Institutional Brand
Another short piece for Inside Higher Ed, published on May 1:

Medievalitas
May 2, 20241 min read
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Georgia Tech alumnus about "bringing POWs/MIAs home"
Impressive first hand information at an event organized by our Ivan Allen College's Director of Alumni Relations, Colleen Cox, with...

Medievalitas
Apr 26, 20241 min read
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Recently, at GTDC
Had a chance to visit with the students and program leaders of GTDC, our exciting new learning and networking space for GT students in...

Medievalitas
Apr 26, 20241 min read
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Our students, ourselves...
Got one of the most wonderful Thank-a-Teacher notes ever from one of my students from the fall semester of 2023. Blown away by their...

Medievalitas
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Students are our priority...
I recently moved to the dean's office in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. As the announcement about my new appointment happened,...

Medievalitas
Apr 24, 20241 min read
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Academic Palms conferred upon Ivan Allen College's Dr. Stéphanie Boulard
Great reception and ceremony tonight, as my colleague Stéphanie Boulard received the French Order of Academic Palms, rank of Knight, by...

Medievalitas
Apr 22, 20241 min read
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Georgia Medieval Group Spring Meeting at Georgia Tech
We had a wonderful spring meeting of the Georgia Medieval Group at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech,...

Medievalitas
Apr 21, 20241 min read
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Suburban DC
Suburban DC (April, 2024)

Medievalitas
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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On Anti-Semitism, Medievalism, and Germany
Delighted to have been invited to present a paper on "Malevolent Memories? Anti-Semitic Medievalisms in Germany," to provide context for...

Medievalitas
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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Autism and Communities of Color
Dr. Jennifer Singh, School of History and Sociology, with panel participants. Director John Thornton all the way to the left, Producer...

Medievalitas
Mar 24, 20241 min read
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Decanalia
Happy to report that I have been appointed interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, an awesome college with fantastic...

Medievalitas
Mar 19, 20241 min read
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Atlanta Academy of Science and Innovation Policy
Met this afternoon with the organizers and participants of this year's Atlanta Academy of Science Policy. Led by School of Public Policy...

Medievalitas
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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What is John Milton doing in Florida?
As a literary scholar whose career was based on working on Geoffrey Chaucer, I was wondering what attracted a well-regarded Miltonist to...

Medievalitas
Mar 13, 20246 min read
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Staff Welcome in Ivan Allen College
Had an excellent time at the IAC New Staff Meet & Greet Breakfast. First-year and second-year employees had the opportunity to meet with...

Medievalitas
Mar 5, 20241 min read
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Taking academic processes seriously
I recently published a short piece in Inside Higher Ed on one of the essential features during the process to evaluate faculty for...

Medievalitas
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Humanity, Posthumanism, Poetry
It's a good time for poetry, and we had another great Poetry@Tech event with three great poets: Patricia Smith, Sasha Stiles, and Bruce...

Medievalitas
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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Visiting Georgia Tech's German Day
Great crowd assembled in the Nanotechnology Building, with wonderful guests from industry, donors, alumni and current students, and...

Medievalitas
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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...and the humanities
An idea gradually forges ahead, about reconnecting the humanities and social sciences with STEM disciplines for a holistic kind of...

Medievalitas
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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