Events
In addition to presenting more than 100 internal events, CLASS regularly brings visitors to campus and engages in conferences, festivals, and events throughout the community, state, region, and country.
In 2013, the College and its Departments and Centers presented:
The live streaming of the Georgia Southern Symphony's concert was recognized for broadcast excellence by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with a 2013 Southeast Regional Emmy Award.
The 2013 Empty Bowl Project raised
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The Arabic Club promoted Arabic language and culture through an Arabic music night, movie night, international poetry night, belly dancing workshops, and conversation hours. The Club also participated in International Education Week festivals and Cultural Education Week. |
Students
In 2013, students of the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University:
Writing major EVIN HUGHES won the first-ever National College Muhammad Ali Writing Award for Ethics with "Float like a Plane, Sting like a Bomb: The Ethics of U.S. Drone Attacks." He received at $10,000 prize and attended a gala in New York.
ZOE CAMPBELL, a theatre and foreign languages double-major, was named the University's top student for the graduating class of 2013 and honored during Honors Day.
Senior JEFFERY SILVEY led a campaign for breast cancer research during the Theatre & Performance program's performance of The Clean House.
ZOE CAMPBELL, a theatre and foreign languages double-major, was named the University's top student for the graduating class of 2013 and honored during Honors Day.
Senior JEFFERY SILVEY led a campaign for breast cancer research during the Theatre & Performance program's performance of The Clean House.
ALUMNI & FRIENDS
CLASS enjoys hearing from and keeping up with its alumni and friends!
Share your news with the College at class.georgiasouthern.edu/alumni or email [email protected].
Share your news with the College at class.georgiasouthern.edu/alumni or email [email protected].
The College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University has alumni and/or friends in 46 of the United States and in South Africa.
Dr. Lee Berger was featured on the cover of Science magazine for a second time and named an Explorer by the National Geographic Society.
Margaret Daly Heap (’86), district attorney for Chatham County, was the 2013 CLASS Alumna of the Year.
Chris Riley (‘92), chief of staff for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, was the 2013 Georgia Southern’s Alumnus of the Year.
Susan Harmon (‘07) exhibits internationally and was awarded five artist residencies and art fellowships for summer 2013.
Chris Minshew (‘11) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Denver Post reporters covering the Aurora, Colorado.
Margaret Daly Heap (’86), district attorney for Chatham County, was the 2013 CLASS Alumna of the Year.
Chris Riley (‘92), chief of staff for Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, was the 2013 Georgia Southern’s Alumnus of the Year.
Susan Harmon (‘07) exhibits internationally and was awarded five artist residencies and art fellowships for summer 2013.
Chris Minshew (‘11) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Denver Post reporters covering the Aurora, Colorado.
donors
During 2013, the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University received 27 Gifts and Pledges of $1,000 or more.
Support from the JACK AND ADDIE AVERITT FOUNDATION enabled the Department of History to support two public history graduate students: One at the University Museum and one in the historical collections at the Averitt home. The Department also placed a student at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler.
The partnership funded by THE WILLIAM & SYLVIA GRETSCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION brought students from the Boys & Girls Club of Bulloch County to campus twice a week for lessons taught by majors in the Department of Music.
The partnership funded by THE WILLIAM & SYLVIA GRETSCH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION brought students from the Boys & Girls Club of Bulloch County to campus twice a week for lessons taught by majors in the Department of Music.
FACULTY
During 2013, faculty members of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Georgia Southern University:
DR. SARAH DOMET taught a free six-week novel writing workshop at the Statesboro Regional Library.
DR. TIM WHELAN was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Travel Grant from the American Philosophical Society for his work transcribing approximately 100 letters of the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson.
DR. K. BRYANT SMALLEY and codirector of the Rural Health Research Institute Dr. Jacob C. Warren appeared on PBS’ Tavis Smiley.
Dr. Craig Roell was presented with the Wells/Warren Professor of the Year Award at the Georgia Southern University 2013 Honors Day Convocation.
Dr. Thomas Klein was interviewed by Time Out Chicago as an expert on Gullah/Geechee language for the magazine’s story on the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Communities Through Language.
He was also a pro bono consultant for the Darien and Coastal Georgia edition of the exhibit New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, conceived and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with the Georgia Humanities Council.
Sculpture Professor Marc Moulton was commissioned to create a permanent display for a Sept. 11 artifact in Suwanee, Ga. He created a 30-foot in diameter base fashioned like a sundial to showcase a 1,600 lb. piece of steel from one of the destroyed World Trade Center towers.
Professor Emeritus Mical Whitaker was induced into the Georgia Theatre Hall of Fame.
DR. TIM WHELAN was awarded a $6,000 Franklin Travel Grant from the American Philosophical Society for his work transcribing approximately 100 letters of the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson.
DR. K. BRYANT SMALLEY and codirector of the Rural Health Research Institute Dr. Jacob C. Warren appeared on PBS’ Tavis Smiley.
Dr. Craig Roell was presented with the Wells/Warren Professor of the Year Award at the Georgia Southern University 2013 Honors Day Convocation.
Dr. Thomas Klein was interviewed by Time Out Chicago as an expert on Gullah/Geechee language for the magazine’s story on the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Word, Shout, Song: Lorenzo Dow Turner Connecting Communities Through Language.
He was also a pro bono consultant for the Darien and Coastal Georgia edition of the exhibit New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, conceived and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in collaboration with the Georgia Humanities Council.
Sculpture Professor Marc Moulton was commissioned to create a permanent display for a Sept. 11 artifact in Suwanee, Ga. He created a 30-foot in diameter base fashioned like a sundial to showcase a 1,600 lb. piece of steel from one of the destroyed World Trade Center towers.
Professor Emeritus Mical Whitaker was induced into the Georgia Theatre Hall of Fame.