Course Projects
2022 PROJECTS
Hip Hop Dance and Identity
Julio Medina, assistant professor of dance, with Juel D. Lane, choreographer
Business and Society
Wes Longhofer, executive academic director of the Business & Society Institute, Goizueta Business School, with Jessica Hill, improviser and applied theater practitioner, and Kacie Willis, podcaster Business & Society Incorporated
Photo II
Joel Silverman, adjunct professor of film and media, with T. Lang, choreographer, dancer and associate professor of dance at Spelman College
Bioethics and Vulnerable Populations: A Historical Perspective
Eladio Abreu, senior lecturer of biology with Amina S. McIntyre, playwright Bioethics and Vulnerable Populations class created a series of short films centering actual cases of injustice in the healthcare. Alternative Medicine, A Missing Heart, Misgivings, and Race and Recovery
Emory University Symphony Orchestra
Paul Bhasin, director of orchestral studies, music, with Sierra King, artist and archivist I Will Remember You I WILL REMEMBER YOU is a speculative narrative and archival installation in collaboration with Emory University Symphony Orchestra. This work is in response to African-American
Film, Media, and the Art of Social Change
Edward Queen, director of the Ethics and Servant Leadership Program, Emory Center for Ethics, with Mark Kendall, comedian The Story of Foreverfamily Foreverfamily: Advocates, Observers, Disrupters Something of Value
Human Flourishing: Imagine a Just City
Micaela Martinez, assistant professor of biology with David Perdue, stand-up comedian
Introduction to Sociology
Devon Goss, assistant professor of sociology, with Leo Briggs, choreographer kitty
Discipline of Ethnomusicology: Ethnography
Meredith Schweig, assistant professor of ethnomusicology, with John E. Doyle Jr., storyteller and actor Our film comprises excerpts from digital stories that MUS 461w class participants created to reflect on the complex relationship between ethnography and social justice. Their challenge was
History of Antisemitism
Ellie Schainker, Arthur Blank Family Foundation Associate Professor of Modern European Jewish History with Alex Mari, durational artist This course explores the global history of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. Drawing on the long history of antisemitism and the durational art
2021 PROJECTS
Environmental Data Science
Emily Burchfield, Department of Environmental Sciences, with Elizabeth Jarrett, experiential designerEnvironmental Data Science This multimedia map is composed of work students did throughout the entire semester, but focuses on four specific assignments. While the technical side of this class requires
Endogenous & Exogenous Determinants of Human Health
Emory 2021 Arts & Social Justice fellowship presents a unique collaboration between local Atlanta artist Stephanie Brown, Dr. Rasheeta Chandler, and six PhD in nursing students taking course NRSG 705 – Endogenous & Exogenous Determinants of Human Health.
Disruptive and conduct disorder diagnosis bias and the school to prison pipeline: Creative and compassionate interventions for BIPOC children
Shaquita Starks, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, with Miranda Kyle, curator Additional collaborators Mr. Totem is an Atlanta-based, world-renowned graffiti artist and muralist. He specializes in large-scale community-themed murals, including multiple 200-foot neighborhood wall commissions by various cities in
Voices of Nonviolence
Ellen Ott Marshall, Candler School of Theology, with Indya Childs, dancer and choreographer About the Course ES 673: Voices of Nonviolence This course offers an introduction to theories, theologies, and practice of nonviolence by studying the life and work of
Film, Media and the Art of Social Change
Carlton Mackey, Emory Center for Ethics and Department of Film and Media, and Edward Queen, Emory Center for Ethics, with Mark Kendall, comedian About the Course Film 355-1: Film, Media and the Art of Social Change This course focuses on
Survey of African American Literature to 1900
Michelle Gordon, Department of African American Studies, with Jim Alexander, documentary photographer
Anticolonial Thought and Art in the Caribbean
Sean Meighoo, Department of Comparative Literature, with Lee Osorio, actor and playwright About the Course CPLT 752R Anticolonial Thought and Art in the Caribbean The various struggles that were directed against European colonialism around the world duringthe nineteenth and twentieth
2020 PROJECTS
Take a peek at the inaugural cohort of Arts & Social Justice fellows and the projects they conceived with students and faculty in the fall semester of 2020.
Epigenetics and the Human Condition
Professor Arri Eisen and visual artist Fahamu Pecou used the Exquisite Corpse collaborative method to explore the effect of trauma on our genetic make-up.
Film, Media, and the Art of Social Change
Students of professors Carlton Mackey and Edward Queen, under the guidance of arts advocate Ash Nash, participated in the creation of a documentary film about Atlanta area non-profit, Gangstas to Growers.
Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases
Students in Hank Klibanoff’s creative writing course, co-taught by actor and playwright Garrett Turner, delved into the events of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre to imagine the human stories of the victims and participants.
Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders
Rollins School of Public Health students in Elizabeth Walker’s course collaborated with composer and cellist Okorie “OkCello” Johnson to create a short film exploring the consequences of social injustice on our mental well-being.
Social Justice: Zoning, Contracts, and Environmental Racism
Actor and playwright Olivia Dawson invited Goizueta Business School students in Allison Burdette’s business law course to confront their personal experiences of discrimination as an exercise in empathy building.
The Feminist Art(s) of Activism
Professor Alix Olson and visual artist Shanequa Gay collaborated with students in their course to create a visual quilt and spoken word poem imagining how feminist modes of activism can shape global discourse.
