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Meet the New Dean of Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

April 15, 2020

Kaye Husbands Fealing, professor and chair of the School of Public Policy and incoming dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, was profiled in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education in the April 2, 2020 issue.

The article explores Husbands Fealings' upbringing and career path, including the factors that brought her to Georgia Tech and led her to take on her newest position.

Excerpt:

With her background in technology and innovation, Husbands Fealing transitioned to Georgia Tech in 2014.

“It just seemed like a natural place for me to come to,” she says.

Most recently, she was named dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech and will assume her role June 1.

“It’s just a really great opportunity to help the faculty, staff and students throughout the organization excel and do their best but also to see and look for opportunities to do things collaboratively across these different schools,” says Husbands Fealing.

Read the full article here.

Published in: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
Lawmakers cry foul as Trump considers retreating from Open Skies Treaty

April 12, 2020

Sam Nunn, a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and and founder of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, was cited in article “Lawmakers cry foul as Trump considers retreating from Open Skies Treaty” in The Hill.

“At a time when tensions with Moscow are on the rise, the Open Skies Treaty serves as a very useful tool for the United States and our allies to monitor Russian military activities,” former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Defense Secretary William Perry and former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) wrote in a memo to the Trump administration released by the Nuclear Threat Initiative this week. “Unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Open Skies would undermine American allies and friends in Europe.”

Read the article on The Hill.

Published in: The Hill
Blindsided | On the Media

April 11, 2020

Ian Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, was interviewed on WNYC's "On the Media" on April 11, 2020.

The episode of the popular radio program explored the implications of the spread of coronavirus, including on broadcast media. Bogost spoke to how esports broadcasts could – or could not – fill the gap left by live sports, which have almost all been cancelled for the time being.

Excerpt:

MICAH LOEWINGER: And even Ian Bogost thinks sports fans are ready for it.

IAN BOGOST: It's like the announcers job now to persuade the viewer that everything is normal, even when everyone knows that it's not. But that's kind of what the sports viewer wants. In a way. It's not just the game with a kind of first one is the ritual. I watch sports on the weekends or you know, I watch Monday Night Football, whatever it is, replacing that loss with something that resembles sports enough or where you're play-acting as if it is quote, unquote, real sport. That may actually tick the box.

Listen to or read the transcript of the program here.

Published in: WNYC
Georgia Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Attack the White House

April 1, 2020

Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article "Georgia man pleads guilty in plot to attack the White House," published April 1, 2020 on WSBRadio.com.

The article describes a legal resolution to the case of Hasher Jallal Taheb, a Forsyth County man who plotted an attack on the White House, which was foiled by the FBI. Kosal commented on the need for authorities to take the threats seriously, even if they seemed "fantastical."

Excerpt:

“In the course of trying to get to accomplish a fantastical plot, somebody can get hurt,” Georgia Tech professor Margaret Kosal said shortly after Taheb’s arrest. “The FBI is forced to take all of them seriously, and that is what they should do.”

Read the full article here.

Published in: WSBRadio
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Can Connect Us During the Pandemic

March 31, 2020

"Deaf Republic," the award-winning book from School of Literature, Media and Communication Professor Ilya Kaminsky, was mentioned in "Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Can Connect Us During the Pandemic" on March 30 on Cleveland.com.

The article looked at winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which are given out by the Cleveland Foundation.

Excerpt:

From Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic”:

We lived happily during the war

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we

protested

but not enough ...

Read the full article here.

Published in: Cleveland.com
Exploded View | For a Cameraless Cinema: Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts

March 31, 2020

Gregory Zinman, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, had his book Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts reviewed in the online publication Cinema Scope.

Zinman's book, first published in January, gives an overview of experimental techniques that saw filmmakers altering the physical film as an extension of artistic expression. In his review, Chuck Stephens remarked on the book's combination of accessibility and comprehensiveness.

Excerpt:

Lucid, smart, but entirely readable, and compellingly illuminated with colour illustrations of the wonders it describes, Making Images Move is formidable historiography: it’s a volume you’ll want to display proudly on your shelf, somewhere between Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema and Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art. High praise indeed, but Zinman easily earns it.

Read the full review here.

Published in: Cinema Scope
And the Winners of the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are ...

March 30, 2020

Ilya Kaminsky, professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, was recognized for winning an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book "Deaf Republic" in Crain's Cleveland Business on March 30, 2020.

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, "the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity," is one of a number of prizes that Kaminsky has won for "Deaf Republic."

Excerpt:

Kaminsky, born in Odessa in 1977, is a poet, editor and translator whose first book, "Dancing in Odessa," was published in more than 20 languages. He holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

As a child, he was misdiagnosed by a Soviet doctor who thought he had a cold, and the mistake left Kaminsky hard of hearing.

Via the Cleveland Foundation: Amid rising antisemitism, Kaminsky's family won political asylum from the United States in 1993 and resettled in Rochester, New York, where he was fitted with hearing aids. Kaminsky, adept in Russian, Ukranian and English poetry, became a lawyer first. When "Deaf Republic" arrived, the BBC named Kaminsky "one of the 12 artists that changed the world in 2019." Anisfield-Wolf Juror Rita Dove said the book haunted her, "a parable that comes to life and refuses to die." It describes an unnamed country whose citizens can no longer hear one another, set amid political unrest. The book, which contains pictograms of sign language words, became a finalist for the National Book Award.

Read the full article here.

Published in: Crain's Cleveland Business
Denser Cities Could Spare Climate but Also Increase Virus Transmission

March 30, 2020

Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article "Denser Cities Could Spare Climate But Also Increase Virus Transmission" on March 27 in E&E News.

The article examines a tradeoff involved in making cities more dense, which can decrease their overall carbon footprint but leave them more susceptible to disease outbreaks like that of COVID-19. Brown spoke to how reducing sprawl is essential not just for reducing emissions but also for optimizing response to disease outbreaks.

Excerpt:

“I would say sprawl is the epitome of what we don’t want to do in terms of emissions from transportation and buildings,” said Marilyn Brown, professor of sustainable systems at the Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy in Atlanta.

Density can make pandemics more manageable because it fosters communication and efficiency in the delivery of essential public services, she said.

Read the full article here.

Published in: E&E News
Coping With Coronavirus: How Professors Can Support Students in Traumatic Times

March 24, 2020

Karen Head, associate professor and associate chair in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, contributed to the resource "Coping With Coronavirus: How faculty members can support students in traumatic times" in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

In her contributed essay, Head advocates for the prioritization of empathy and understanding in faculty members' teaching plans in the time of coronavirus, as the disease can have wide-ranging consequences that affect every part of a student's life.

Excerpt:

The accompanying sense of insecurity should be a focus of course redevelopment as we move to remote delivery, because we need first to focus on the human part of this experience. Students may not have access. They may be distracted by sick relatives. They may be forced to work to help their families financially. They may have to look after younger siblings. They may not have a safe place to live off campus. They may be ill themselves.

You can submit your email to download the full article at this link.

Published in: Chronicle of Higher Education
Coronavirus Goes Viral: How Online Meme Culture Reflects Our Shared Experience Of A Global Pandemic

March 20, 2020

André Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, was interviewed on the Georgia Public Broadcasting program "On Second Thought" on March 20, 2020.

Brock, whose work has examined the online meme culture of the African American community, such as the "Black Twitter" phenomenon, spoke to the connective power of the internet in a time of mandated physical distancing between people.

Excerpt:

Memes tend to draw upon shared cultural commonplaces. And for a large part of it, they draw on shared networks. So it's a group of people, your friends and your family, or usually a group of people who will understand where your humor is coming from. And in return, their friends and family will have maybe not the same understanding, but a similar one. Where memes become huge and become immensely taken up is when that initial content actually turns out to be relatable to many more people than their original user could have even imagined. While there are many deliberate memes, I find that many memes which were not as deliberate have somehow become also influential in helping people understand how to deal with this virus.

Listen and read highlights from the program here.

Published in: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Transcript: Philip Breedlove, former NATO supreme allied commander, on "Intelligence Matters"

March 18, 2020

General Phil Breedlove, USAF (ret.), former NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and the US European Command Commander and a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed by Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, a distinguished professor in the Nunn School and former ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in CBS News "Intelligence Matters."

Read an excerpt:

Russia has the ability to quickly move and mass their forces, where NATO has to respond to the area. And I know you understand this better than most because of your naval background, but in the Cold War we almost took-- we fought to maintain the lines of contact with the East Coast of America and Europe.

During the post-Cold War days, we have all but stopped worrying about fighting our way across the Atlantic. In fact, we assume safe passage across the Atlantic. And that's not the case anymore. And so Russia enjoys that ability to rapidly bring forces together. And if you've ever looked at Moscow and the spider network of roads and railroads from there, you understand how quickly they can do this. And then you have to look at what NATO has to do to respond. It's a physics problem.

The interview and transcript is available on the CBS News Website.

Published in: CBS News
U.S. Recession Still a Risk But the Central Bank’s Moves Deserve Applause, Says former Fed Official

March 16, 2020

Dennis Lockhart, former Atlanta Federal Reserve president and now distinguished professor in the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed by CNBC.

Excerpt:

“I think recessionary conditions are definitely a risk and we’re dealing with so much uncertainty now on how this virus situation unfolds and what the economic impact turns out to be, nobody really knows,” Dennis Lockhart, Atlanta Fed president from 2007 to 2017, told CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia on Monday.

For the full interview, please visit the CNBC website.

Published in: CNBC
Lockhart: The Fed has set its position as accommodative as it can possibly be

March 16, 2020

Dennis Lockhart, former Atlanta Federal Reserve president and now current distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed on “Lockhart: The Fed has set its position as accommodative as it can possibly be” on Fox Business.

Watch the full video interview on Yahoo News.

Published in: Yahoo News
These financial moves can help you prepare for a recession

March 16, 2020

Dennis Lockhart, a distinguished professor and former Atlanta Federal Reserve president, was cited in “These financial moves can help you prepare for a recession” by CNBC.

Find an excerpt:

“I think recessionary conditions are definitely a risk and we’re dealing with so much uncertainty now on how this virus situation unfolds and what the economic impact turns out to be, nobody really knows,” former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday.

Read the article on the CNBC website.

Published in: CNBC
Will the Fed’s emergency rate cut work?

March 16, 2020

Dennis Lockhart, distinguished professor in the Nunn School and past Atlanta Federal Reserve president was interviewed in “Will the Fed’s emergency rate cut work?” By Fox Business.

Excerpt:

“I don’t think we can know whether or not it will work,” Dennis Lockhart, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, told FOX Business. “First of all, I would say the Federal Reserve is in a support role here. The real frontline of action has to be the health authorities, and to some extent the fiscal authorities as well.”

The complete article can be accessed on Fox Business.

Published in: Fox Business
Transcript: Former top defense official Robert Work on "Intelligence Matters"

March 11, 2020

Retired ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Distinguished Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, USN (ret.), interviewed the 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, in CBS News “Intelligence Matters.”

Excerpt:

It would be interesting to see if there were ever a point when the advantages conferred on an opponent by using AI start to so eclipse our own capability that we have to consider looking at other ways. Speaking of China, Chinese entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee says that to have good commercial AI, you have to have four things, a lot of government support, decent engineers, ruthless entrepreneurs and lots of data. Given that, and given China's somewhat serious advantages in commercial AI, can we compete with them in the defense space in AI?

Find an transcript of the interview on CBS News.

Published in: CBS News
Kaye Husbands Fealing Earns Shoutout on "The Georgia Gang"

March 2, 2020

Kaye Husbands Fealing, chair and professor in the School of Public Policy and incoming dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, was mentioned in the March 1 edition of the public affairs program "The Georgia Gang" on FOX 5 Atlanta.

Tharon Johnson, the CEO of Paramount Consulting Group and a seasoned political consulting veteran, included Husbands Fealing in his list of shoutouts on the show. Husbands Fealing was formally named as dean on February 27, and she will assume the position June 1.

"She's a wonderful person, and I wish her the best," Johnson said.

Watch the full show here.

Published in: The Georgia Gang
Addressing Atlanta's Health Disparities Through Community Service Approaches

March 1, 2020

Jennifer Singh, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, wrote the article "Addressing Atlanta’s health disparities through community service approaches" in The Saporta Report on March 1, 2020.

Singh, whose background includes education and training in public health as well as sociology, has designed a course in the Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS) program that explores the sociological determinants of public health conditions in communities. Through a collaboration with the American Heart Association and the Grove Park Foundation, Singh's students taught hands-free CPR techniques to a variety of community organizations in Atlanta.

Excerpt:

The most important take away from service learning is that students connect what they learn in the classroom with their community service experiences. To aid in this process, I challenge students to think and write critically about the social determinants of health that focus on fundamental or upstream causes of health disparities.

For example, living in poverty increases the risk of heart disease and death by sudden cardiac arrest. Based on data collected by Georgia Tech Atlanta’s Neighborhood Quality of Health and Life Project, 40 percent of the residents in Grove Park Neighborhood live below the poverty line, have a much lower household income than the median for the City of Atlanta, and only 9 percent have a college education. These drastic inequities affect the level and kind of resources people have access to, such as quality housing and medical care or, in the case of sudden cardiac arrest, knowledge on how to respond to it.

Read the full article here.

Published in: The Saporta Report
How Black Feminist Scholars Remember Toni Morrison in the Classroom

February 20, 2020

Susana Morris, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, wrote about teaching Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif" in the "How Black Feminist Scholars Remember Toni Morrison in the Classroom" in Ms. magazine on Feb. 18, 2020.

"Recitatif" is "too often overlooked," Morris wrote, but the story's structure and clever themes of people's perceptions of race have made it one of her favorite works to explore with students.

Excerpt:

Morrison’s purposeful obfuscation of race really invites readers to consider what we really know when we “know” someone’s race. This is particularly interesting in the classroom. I invite students to speak openly about racial stereotypes and how they often function as a type of social technology for us to make sense of the world. Often, students’ first reactions is to argue that one character has to be Black or, alternatively, white—because everyone knows that these people are really like this or that. The moment they uncover their own flawed logic is always a transformative one.

Read the full article here.

Published in: Ms.
Interview With Dr. Margaret Kosal, AOMD Episode 031

February 18, 2020

Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed on the Authors of Mass Destruction Podcast, part of the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Kosal covered a broad range of topics in the interview, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, and "gray goo."

Listen to the podcast here.

Published in: Authors on the Air Global Radio Network