This spring, we moved the semesterly tradition of the Hall Scholar Breakfast to the Alumni House to celebrate Col. Steven and Pamela Hall's philanthropy, financial and mentoring support that smoothes the path of so many of our undergraduate students. The current President of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Dene Sheheane (Mgt '91), greeted our guests.

Participated in Saturday's spring 2026 meeting of the Georgia Medieval Group , expertly hosted by Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge and Leah Haught at the University of West Georgia. It included contributions by professors and students. My own presentation sought to challenge the dominant tendency in medievalism studies to treat all nostalgic engagements with the Middle Ages as inherently complicit in colonial, supremacist, or ethnonationalist ideologies. Engaging Scott Riley’s 2025 binary...

Published in The Medieval Review , 3/16/2026 Riley, Scott Corbett. New World Medievalisms. The Middle Ages in the American Cultural Imaginary . Medievalism, 31. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2025. Pp. vi, 181. £85.00. ISBN: 978-1-84384-678-9.       Reviewed by Richard Utz     Georgia Institute of Technology      richard.utz@lmc.gatech.edu      According to Scott Riley, U.S. medievalisms “tend to resemble European colonial rather than anti-colonial discourses,” invoking the European past “as a...