Launched in 2024, the Fox Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Hubs engage critical themes and debates within Humanistic Inquiry. Convenors are encouraged to engage faculty and students across departments, programs, schools and rank as well as participants from other Atlanta institutions. Formats may include or combine pre-circulated, discussion-based seminars, works in progress, visiting scholars, workshops, panels, and modest conferences.

Hubs may be designed along flexible timelines—e.g. week-long intensives, semester- or year-long programs—and gatherings may be held in the Seminar Room of the Fox Center or in other venues across campus. Faculty are encouraged to be experimental, bold, and collaborative and those who have not been prior recipients of FCHI support are especially encouraged to apply.

How to propose a Hub

Please send proposals for new Hubs to foxcenter@emory.edu. Informal inquiries may be directed to Carla Freeman, Director of the Fox Center.

Proposals should be 1-2 pages in length and include:

1. a description of research theme and academic mission;
2. a list of participants with titles and affiliations included;
3. a brief outline of format and any additional activities or events planned;
4. a disclosure of any prior FCHI support received and of any support received or solicited from other sources for this proposal.

The CV of the convenor(s) should be attached.

GALACSI (Georgia Atlantic, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Initiative)

Convenors: Tom Rogers, Professor, Department of History, Emory University, and Lia Bascomb, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, Georgia State University

GALACSI brings together Georgia-based scholars for pedagogical and research collaborations focused on the history of the Atlantic World, Latin America, and the Caribbean.