As the new director of the Fox Center, I am thrilled to be supporting an institution devoted to making connections between people and ideas, between past and present, and between the university and the community. Here are some of the things we do at the Center: 
 
Each year, we bring together a group of faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to work intensively on big projects (typically books and dissertations); they share their work in progress, trade ideas, and discuss central issues in the humanities. We provide mentorship and interdisciplinary community for talented undergraduates working on humanistic Honors theses. We help authors find new audiences through our digital publishing initiative, our book launches, and our podcasts. We host and support interdisciplinary groups of scholars at Emory who are planning conferences or publications, undertaking new areas of research, developing curricular initiatives, and other big scholarly ventures. We bring to campus scholars, writers, and performers who can stimulate conversation about culture, society, and history for a wide range of students, faculty, and friends from the Atlanta community. Read the full letter.