Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Congratulations to our graduating Undergraduate Honors Fellows! 🎉🎓️ ⁠
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This past April, the Fox was proud to gather for our annual Undergraduate Honors Fellows' Colloquium where Fellows presented their thesis projects and participated in three conference-style panels, moderated by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Jeff Williams and Victoria Bergbauer and Non-Residential Faculty Fellow Héctor Álvarez. ⁠
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The program included:⁠
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* Thiên Nguyễn - “Making Them Known: The Lives of Working First-Generation College Students at an Elite University” ⁠
* Samuel Chao - "Heathen for Heaven: Religion, Race, and Chinese American Relational Redemption in the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1873-1920"⁠
* Anita Osuri - "Uncommon Illness, Unequal Burden: Rare Disease at the Intersections of Identity"⁠
* Abby Brown - “Out of Sight, Out of Mercy: Death Row Through the Eyes of Loved Ones”⁠
* Isabel Buyers - “Memory, Movement, and Identity: Narratives of Neurodegeneration in Latin American Literature and Film” ⁠
* Thora Jordt - “Beyond psychology: Technology and agency in Aelita (1924)”⁠
* Olivia Gilbert - "Screening Obscenity: The Role of Censorship in She Done Him Wrong, Deep Throat, and Showgirls"⁠
* Eunjae Thompson - “The Birth of the No-Body Behind Venus & Meditations on Touch” ⁠
* Daniel Bell - “Public Men in Glass Houses: Herbert Jenkins and the Reformers of the Atlanta Police Department”⁠
* Leo Raykher - “Economics, Espionage, and Exile: the Surveilled life of David Drucker, esq.”⁠
* Kate Richardson - “The Life of Marian Diamond: Biography as Contextualization for the Regression of S*x Equalized Research within Neuroscience” ⁠
* Claire Burkhardt - “Jihadist, Rebel, Statesman? A microhistory of Ahmed al-Sharaa”⁠
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The Fox Center is so proud of everything our Undergraduate Fellows accomplished and we can't wait to see what they achieve next!⁠
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Watch the Colloquium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_z9DJpGKbg&t=3s
Learn about our Fellows' next chapters: https://fchi.emory.edu/news-events/news-articles/lifestory-congrats.html

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! 💫 This year, the Fox Center continued its support of the “Asian American Studies in an Age of Authoritarianism” (AASAA) interdisciplinary research hub.

Organized by Prof. Chris Suh, the AASAA hub highlights new research in Asian American Studies and Asian diaspora studies in order to illuminate urgent issues of state violence, transnational networks of resistance and collaboration, and multiracial struggles for democracy.⁠

This spring, the hub culminated in a major conference for scholars of Asian American Studies in the Southeast on the five-year mark of the Atlanta Spa Shootings. Over a dozen scholars from peer institutions presented their research alongside members of the AASAA research hub.⁠
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In his own words, Dr. Suh reflected on the hub’s success: ⁠

“The FCHI research hub played an indispensable role in helping the scholars of Asian American Studies and Asian Diaspora Studies at Emory build community and prepare for the submission of the Asian American Studies minor proposal to the College in Fall 2026.” ⁠
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To learn more about how the Fox supports faculty initiatives, visit our website: https://fchi.emory.edu/index.html