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Decanal Vision
Academic administrators need vision, and here is one of the great views out of the Ivan Allen College Dean's office onto our tree-lined...

Medievalitas
Sep 27, 20241 min read


Decanally Speaking: Suspicious Minds
A new Dean's blog entry: I continue to be attracted to books that combine the features of the manifesto, memoir, and professional advice....

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Sep 25, 20242 min read


The Black Monk in The Name of the Rose
Happy to contribute a short piece in Poiema on an exceptional presence, a black actor in a feature film situated in the Middle Ages, in...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read


Ivan Allen College's "Humanizing STEM" event featured in University Business feature
Our September 20 event, Humanizing STEM, was featured in a recent article by Alcino Donadel, for University Business , "Why these leaders...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read


Welcome to Humanizing STEM
My welcome remarks on the occasion of our launch event, Humanizing STEM , for Georgia Tech's Year of the Liberal Arts . Join us at our...

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Sep 21, 20244 min read


Meeting with Student Advisory Boards
One of the highlights this week was a meeting with our undergraduate and graduate student advisory boards. Our student reps understand...

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Sep 19, 20241 min read
Flannery O'Connor Conference @ Georgia College
Had a relapse into literary and cultural studies by attending the NEH sponsored conference, "Flannery O'Connor's Second Century: Looking...

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Sep 12, 20241 min read


Decanally Speaking: Making Students our Top Priority
Making Students Our Top Priority The values section of our institution’s Strategic Plan includes a statement that leaves no doubt about...

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Sep 10, 20242 min read


Listening to associate professors
In our college, we know it's time to listen to a group of colleagues who, while tenured and at the rank of associate professor, rarely...

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Sep 9, 20241 min read


Medievally Speaking reviews: The Decameron (Netflix)
Please find Kevin J. Harty's, "Oh, Giovanni, where are you, Giovanni?” A Review of Netflix’s Eight-part Adaption of Giovanni Boccaccio’s...

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Sep 4, 20241 min read


Atlanta Varsity
One of the most enduring presences in Midtown Atlanta, the historical VARSITY eatery, here as one drives toward Georgia Tech's campus.

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Sep 3, 20241 min read


A new fall semester
Ample opportunity, at the beginning of the Academic Year, to welcome our new Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts colleagues at our New...

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Aug 30, 20241 min read


Medievally Speaking reviews: Douglas Gray, From Fingal's Cave to Camelot
For your reading pleasure, please find Jane Toswell's review of: Douglas Gray, From Fingal’s Cave to Camelot , ed. Jane Bliss. Oxford,...

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Aug 21, 20241 min read


Decanally Speaking
I started a new feature for our Dean's Weekly Update (newsletter), called Decanally Speaking. This one, from August, is about how we...

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Aug 17, 20242 min read


HUMANIZING STEM
We will be hosting an exciting event on September 20, in Atlanta's Historic Academy of Medicine, to display and demonstrate the value of...

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Aug 15, 20241 min read


Almost Heaven? Language Education at West Virginia University, and beyond
I have a new short piece out on the future of language education and research at different kinds of higher ed institutions, entitled...

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Jul 1, 20241 min read


Traveling with President Cabrera
During his yearly summer tour across the State of Georgia, Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera made a stop in Carollton where the Local...

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Jun 25, 20241 min read


The State of Surveillance
On my daily walk to one of the few coffee shops open during the summer on our Georgia Tech campus, this poster looks at me from the...

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Jun 21, 20241 min read


Dissemination
Cham, Bavaria, June 2024

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Jun 19, 20241 min read


Did CNN just hire a new anchor?
Nope, but we are collaborating with our partners at CNN on a new and exciting project for our Ivan Allen College students.

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May 22, 20241 min read
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