2024名本科生分别是（后排，从左至右）蔡斯·沃尔夫松、埃兹拉·帕卡德、阿南娅·莫汉、齐姆拉·奇克林和谭；（中）福克斯中心主任卡拉•弗里曼；（上排，左至右）奥卢瓦西吉波米·奥森科亚、马尔瓦·伊斯梅尔、所罗门·金、雅各布·吉布斯、布莱登·怀特、希夫·夏尔马（助教）、马修·克罗斯怀特和哈里森·赫尔姆斯。 --照片由贝基·斯泰纳斯克·卡拉·弗里曼提供她对福克斯人文探究中心正在发展的愿景，答案简短而有力：“埃默里的智力重心。 在被任命为福克斯中心主任后的一年里，古德里奇·弗里曼。 白人女性、性别和性研究教授一直在兑现她的承诺，建立新的伙伴关系，并开发创新的方法来促进整个大学的深度智力参与。 她还对现有的项目进行了设计改革，如本科生人文学科荣誉研究员，该项目每年支持多达12名学生完成人文学科或人文社会科学领域的荣誉项目。 目标是向学生展示人文学科的广度，加强他们的写作和演讲技能，同时促进跨学科的交流和指导。 弗里曼说：“现在有一些小的改进，以后通常在春季提供更广泛的变化，本科生项目将在2024-25年秋季开始，“让我们的学生作为福克斯中心学术界的成员有更全面的体验，并允许我们的教职工、研究生和博士后获得更有意义的指导。”。 在即将到来的学年里，弗里曼将推出另一个新的特色：该中心的工作主题是“民主：过去、现在、未来”。 “鼓励那些在4月8日截止日期前申请本科生项目的人提出涉及这一主题的论文，弗里曼与其他埃默里学院的教师协商制定了这一主题，以探讨人文学科如何在政治动荡加剧的时代审视和理解民主。 将本科生项目改为秋季并没有阻止freeman在本学期做出改进，她与女性、性别和性研究博士生shiv sharma一起教授了一个一学分的研讨会。 该研讨会为本科生提供了一个支持结构，让他们在完成论文的同时，沉浸在人文学科的知识、创造力和专业环境中——学生们在福克斯中心周围都能体验到这一点。 学生们为彼此的项目提供有意义的反馈，并在撰写论文时探索广泛的学科方法、方法和认识论。 弗里曼还热衷于打开该中心的大门，希望本科生能有身临其境的人文体验，包括参观迈克尔博物馆。 卡洛斯博物馆与埃尔曼讲座的参与。 当研讨会转移到秋季时，这些体验将扩大到校外参观剧院和博物馆。 小森谷四二和所有的本科生一样，在这学期的学习中，他对自己的研究进行了一次紧凑而引人注目的介绍，这项研究是从神经科学的角度研究音乐如何激发情绪的。 照片由becky steina创意创意瀑布提供freeman将是第一个说她不是独自一人做到这一点的人。 “当我呼吁帮助重新思考研讨会的设计时，得到了压倒性的回应。 弗里曼说：“所有的研究生和博士后都不顾写作和就业的压力，挺身而出，提出了吸引本科生的新方法。”。 sharma合作定义了其新设计。 他说，它成功的关键是“我们相信，学会与一系列知识形态打交道是当今人文学科的核心。 sharma说：“除了选择代表艺术史、音乐、哲学、人类学、创意写作、英语和神经科学等不同领域的学生外，该项目还使本科生能够“相互思考，提出富有成效的问题，并找到联系。”。 他补充道：“这次研讨会还让他们有机会与福克斯中心的资深教师和其他学者建立联系，让他们能够想象大学毕业后的职业生活。”。 在一次研讨会上，一个由博士后和研究生组成的小组创建了一个“大学毕业后的生活”的快照，分享了关于如何选择导师和申请推荐信的职业关系的智慧。 该小组还定义了“出版途径”，即为研究生院的作品集建立一个强大的形象并采取措施走向学术生涯的策略。 罗拉·韦布来自斯坦福大学的艺术史项目，是福克斯中心的两年博士后。 她向这学期的学生们介绍了写作小组的好处。 随着秋季研究金在该项目中的时间越来越长，韦布希望写作小组能够牢固地建立起来，最终在福克斯大学本科生研究生座谈会上达到高潮，届时所有学生都将在毕业前提交论文。 “我在研究生院后期发现了写作小组的工作效率有多高，我只能想象，如果早点制定出负责任的策略会有多大好处。 韦布说：“此外，通过尽早、经常地分享，它促使作家以有利于观众的方式发展他们的想法，并减轻了向教授提交作品时的一些焦虑。”。 本科生经历的核心是高级研究员，他们的指导是至关重要的。 （下排，左对右）米歇尔·阿姆斯特朗·帕蒂达、劳拉·韦布、埃利·尚克和海莉·琼斯；（中）福克斯中心主任卡拉•弗里曼；（上排，左对右）格雷登·麦卡申，伊丽莎白·威尔逊，苏珊·海伦，克里斯托弗·斯派德，j。 judd owen和michelle alexis taylor。 照片由becky steinwhit提供指导意味着福克斯中心论文完成研究员haley jones 24phd和本科生研究员jacob gibbs 24c的合作，展示了是什么让社区中追求的学术有价值，以及为什么福克斯中心是这方面的中心。 虽然琼斯和吉布斯在成为一名本科生之前就已经开始合作了，但在福克斯中心，他们的智力之旅更加深入。 琼斯是埃默里艺术史专业的学生，他的作品调查了2000-2000年欧洲和北美拍卖市场的情况，特别是关于非洲历史或古典艺术的真实性和价值是如何产生的。 她发现，“这些拍卖集中了欧洲和北美艺术家、收藏家和经销商与非洲艺术品的接触，同时也分散了非洲艺术机构的注意力。 “这项工作的一个方面涉及从目录中提取定量数据。 琼斯呼吁招聘本科生研究助理。 吉布斯，主修历史/艺术史，辅修经济学，响应了号召。 通过对非洲艺术的热爱形成了一个学术团队“雅各布开始这个过程时，对非洲艺术、非洲艺术市场或数字人文学科没有兴趣或了解。 琼斯指出：“他很快就学会了，做得很好，做出了重大贡献。”。 作为医生的儿子，吉布斯和一个即将上医学院的妹妹，他开始开辟自己的道路，从事人文学科的研究。 他来到埃默里，对法律和历史感兴趣。 他承认：“我没有把艺术史从更大的历史学科中认真地分离出来，直到大一上学期与李教授一起学习了欧洲和北美的当代艺术。”。 通过这种火花，吉布斯对驱使琼斯前进的问题产生了浓厚的兴趣。 “为什么有些作品的价值高达数千万，而看起来相似的作品的价值却只有区区一万？我很快了解到，价值更高的作品被营销为与欧洲画家或欧洲现代主义运动有关。”。 这引起了我的注意，”他说。 吉布斯完成了与琼斯的合作，大三时出国，在意大利佛罗伦萨的一家博物馆工作。 当艺术史副教授苏珊·伊丽莎白·加里亚迪（susanelizabethgagliardi）让他意识到2015年以5英镑售出的《威廉·鲁宾·科塔》（williamrubinkota）时，他对非洲艺术的兴趣再次高涨。 5，当时是非洲艺术品的第三高价格。 吉布斯说：“现在它的售价是第十高，因为市场正在膨胀。”。 这些更高的估价引起了人们对非洲艺术的关注，也增加了非洲艺术家的收入。 但他们并没有从这些作品中获利。 他说：“我仍然对美国和欧洲市场参与者和拍卖商的暴利行为感到不安。”。 谭颖怡（音译）是一名历史与经济专业的本科生，她在论文中用人参来探讨中国的医药和食品史、中美互动和海上贸易史。 照片由becky steinsharing在福克斯中心居住cygibbs想以自己的身份探索非洲艺术的价值，于是开始了一篇荣誉论文，并申请了本科生项目，因为他知道jones也在福克斯中心。 他们共同的学术兴趣已经发展成一种友谊，吉布斯知道这种友谊将延续到他们在埃默里的时光。 “我在雅各布身上培养了一种对这种材料真正而强烈的兴趣。 这学期我和他见过几次面，谈论他的论文研究，并帮助他为答辩做准备。 他将继续做伟大的事情，”琼斯说。 这些“伟大的事情”将从在哥伦比亚法学院学习艺术法开始，吉布斯最近被哥伦比亚法学院录取。 吉布斯说：“在我申请的学校中，他们是唯一一所在艺术市场上开设课程的学校。 “我不知道我是否会离开那里去做教科书上的艺术法。 我肯定会做一些与版权和知识产权相关的事情，最终进入艺术界。”吉布斯保证。 吉布斯和琼斯是一个坚实的团队，他们都承认福克斯中心更大的支持网络加强了他们作为人文学者的效力。 吉布斯喜欢被“狐狸队如此聪明的人”刺激，琼斯也表示赞同：“我在这里不仅感觉到了专业的支持，而且感觉到了个人的支持。 我期待着来到这里；它既友好又放松。 每个人都对彼此的工作感兴趣并给予支持。 “一个每个人都认为自己知道的地方，一个没有人会忘记的旅行，正如她所承诺的那样，弗里曼已经把每个人都赶出了去其他地方体验人文学科的大门。 本科生们参加了今年的ellmann讲座，琼斯组织的卡洛斯博物馆之旅获得了好评。 自2017年以来，琼斯在埃默里大学就非常了解这个系列，并带领许多学生完成了它。 在这次郊游中，她提出了一个生命周期主题，她将其定义为具有与生命周期相关内容的对象，或者在使用、收集或展示中具有有趣生命周期的对象。 作为一次主要针对本科生的旅行，许多教员和博士后研究员也是热切的参与者。 这次访问安排在吉布斯所说的“我写作的关键时刻”。 因此，他说，“我更多的是支持haley，而不是学习。 那是我的第一个错误，没有意识到她能教会我什么，实际上是我们所有人。 她想出了一个引人入胜的主题。 我嫉妒那些愿意上她的课的学生；她是个了不起的老师。 夏尔马也对他所学到的东西印象深刻。 “这次参观促使我们思考博物馆艺术品收藏、解读和展览的关键问题，特别关注展示来自不同文化的艺术品所面临的挑战。 他指出：“这让我所读到的艺术史上的学术和辩论以一种非常明显的方式变得生动而重要。”。 福克斯中心的论文完成研究员海莉·琼斯（haleyjones）带领大家参观了卡洛斯系列，主要是为了让本科生受益，但高年级的研究员们也听到了她在卡洛斯系列的背景下谈论“生命周期”。 图片由carlafreemanstaytunedlater提供4月，在学术讨论会上，该中心将庆祝并展示本科生完成的论文。 弗里曼说：“未来还有更多的工作要做，有了新的计划、外联和合作，我毫不怀疑福克斯中心将成为一个更加引人注目和充满活力的艺术和人文中心。”。 关注两名本科生研究生要更全面地了解学生在本学期课程中进行的研究的广度，请参阅研究生页面。 专业：英语/心理学专题：后殖民理论与科幻小说的交叉。 引用：“尤其是在西方科幻小说中，我们倾向于将技术视为一个问题，只有当它控制自己而不是被控制时，它才会变得有知觉。 我们需要做的是从现在和未来的角度审视技术：技术现在是如何产生的；谁使用它；谁有权访问它，谁没有；谁在被非人化？这成为一个中心问题，尤其是在印度科幻小说中。 福克斯中心奖学金的收获：“学会专业简洁地展示我们的发现。 ”“有一个工作的空间和一个创造机会并为我提供更多资源的人际网络。 ”“理解我的研究如何融入更广泛的人文主义框架，以及它在现实世界中的重要性。 关于伟大的事情：莫汉将于秋季在杜克大学攻读博士学位。 专业：神经科学与行为生物学/音乐合成主题：音乐如何唤起听众的情绪反应。 这篇论文包括一首原创弦乐四重奏作品《imlara》和一个书面部分。 引用：“在instagram上发布了我在一个生日派对上的视频后，该应用程序添加了拉赫玛尼诺夫钢琴协奏曲《no》的第二乐章。 two。 尽管我是一名作曲家和音乐家，但我从未听过这首以唤起怀旧情绪而闻名的音乐。 这正是我的感受，所以我利用我在神经科学方面的专业知识来研究音乐引发的情绪。 “我整理了一个不同研究中使用的音乐数据库，并将其分为情感类。 以我的音乐训练，我该如何描述这些效果呢？我使用了音色（粗糙或平滑的声音）、质感（谁在演奏什么声音？）和和声（正在创造什么和弦和声音世界？）。 然后，我用四个动作构建了我的作品，以唤起喜悦、愤怒、恐惧和悲伤。 福克斯中心联谊会的收获：“同龄人的热情、深度和复杂性让我敬畏。 ”“他们给我们上了一堂无价的课，教我们如何将四年的学习时间提炼成五分钟，说服其他雇主、研究生项目相信我们的项目。 ”“与其他将自己的技艺磨练到如此高水平的人在一起是非常宝贵的。 关于伟大的事情：osunkoya将在秋天进入医学院，希望加入一个研究音乐和医学的实验室。
the 2024 undergraduate fellows are (bottom row, l to r) chase wolfsohn, ezra packard, ananya mohan, zimra chickering and yinyi tan; (middle) carla freeman, fox center director; (top row, l to r) oluwasijibomi osunkoya, marwah ismail, solomon kim, jacob gibbs, braden white, shiv sharma (teaching assistant), matthew croswhite and harrison helms. — photo courtesy becky steinask carla freeman her vision of what the fox center for humanistic inquiry is on its way to becoming and the answer is short but powerful: “an intellectual center of gravity at emory.” in the year since being named director of the fox center, freeman the goodrich c. white professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies has been making good on her promise to formulate new partnerships and develop innovative ways to foster deep intellectual engagement across the university.she is also bringing design changes to established programs such as the undergraduate humanities honors fellows, which annually supports up to 12 students completing honors projects in a humanities or humanistic social science field. the goal is to demonstrate to students the breadth of the humanities and strengthen their writing and presentation skills while fostering interdisciplinary exchange and mentorship.small improvements now, broader changes later typically offered in spring, the undergraduate fellows program will move to fall in 2024-25 “to give our students a fuller experience as members of the fox center academic community and to allow more meaningful mentoring with our faculty, graduate students and postdocs,” says freeman.in the coming academic year, freeman is instituting another new feature: a theme for the center’s work “democracy: past, present, future.” those who applied to the undergraduate fellows program by the april 8 deadline were encouraged to suggest theses that engage this topic, which freeman formulated in consultation with other emory faculty to interrogate how the humanities can examine and understand democracy in a time of intensified political unrest. shifting the undergraduate fellows program to fall did not stop freeman from making enhancements this semester, starting with a one-credit seminar she is teaching with shiv sharma, a doctoral student in women’s, gender and sexuality studies. the seminar provides a supportive structure for undergraduate students to work toward completing their thesis while immersing themselves in the intellectual, creative and professional environment of the humanities something students experience all around them at the fox center. students provide meaningful feedback to one another’s projects and explore a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methodologies and epistemologies as they write their theses. freeman also was keen to open the center’s doors, wanting undergraduates to have immersive humanities experiences, including a trip to the michael c. carlos museum and participation in the ellmann lectures. when the seminar shifts to the fall, these experiences will expand to include theater and museum visits off campus as well.siji osunkoya — as was the case with all the undergraduate fellows— learned over the course of the semester to present a tight, compelling presentation of his research, which is on how music provokes emotion from a neuroscience perspective.photo courtesy becky steina cascade of creative ideasfreeman would be the first to say she has not done this alone. “when i put a call out for help in rethinking the seminar design, the response was overwhelming. all the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, despite the pressures of writing and being on the job market, stepped up and proposed novel ways of engaging the undergraduates,” says freeman.sharma collaborated in defining its new design. key to its success, he says, “is our belief that learning to engage with a range of intellectual formations is at the heart of humanities today.”beyond selecting students representing diverse fields such as art history, music, philosophy, anthropology, creative writing, english and neuroscience the program enables undergraduate fellows to “think with each other, ask productive questions and find connections,” says sharma. “the seminar also gives them a chance to connect with senior faculty and other scholars at the fox center, and it empowers them to envision what their professional life may look like beyond college,” he adds.in one seminar session, a panel of postdocs and graduate students created a snapshot of “life after college,” sharing wisdom about professional relationships how to choose mentors and request recommendation letters. the panel also defined “pathways to publication,” strategies for building a robust profile for graduate school portfolios and taking steps toward academic careers.hailing from stanford university’s art history program, lora webb is the fox center’s two-year postdoctoral fellow. she advised this semester’s students on the benefits of a writing group. with the longer runway of time in the program that the fall fellowship will afford, webb hopes that writing groups will become firmly established, culminating in the fox undergraduate fellows colloquium when all students present their theses prior to graduation.“i discovered how productive writing groups can be later in graduate school, and i can only imagine how beneficial it would have been to have developed strategies of accountability earlier. further, by sharing early and often, it pushes writers to develop their ideas in audience-friendly ways and ameliorates some of the anxiety that comes with submitting a piece of writing to a professor,” webb says.central to the experience of the undergraduate fellows are the senior fellows, whose mentorship is crucial. (bottom row, l to r) michelle armstrong-patida, lora webb, ellie schainker and haley jones; (middle) carla freeman, fox center director; (top row, l to r) grayden mccashen, elizabeth wilson, susan hylen, christopher spaide, j. judd owen and michelle alexis taylor. photo courtesy becky steinwhat mentorship can meanthe collaboration of haley jones 24phd, the fox center dissertation completion fellow, and jacob gibbs 24c, an undergraduate research fellow, demonstrates what makes scholarship pursued in community valuable and why the fox center is a hub for that very thing. though jones and gibbs had started working together before gibbs became an undergraduate fellow, their intellectual journey deepened at the fox center. jones is an emory art history student whose work investigates the period 2000–20 in the european and north american auction market, specifically regarding how authenticity and value are derived for historical or classical arts of africa. she has found that “these auctions center the engagements of european and north american artists, collectors and dealers with african art while decentering african artistic agency.”one aspect of the work involved extracting quantitative data from the catalogs. jones put out a call for undergraduate research assistants. gibbs, a history/art history major and economics minor, answered the call.a scholarly team forms through love of african art“jacob began the process with no interest or knowledge of african art, the african art market or digital humanities. he picked everything up quickly, did great work and made significant contributions,” jones notes.the son of physicians, with a sister headed to medical school, gibbs was set on forging his own path, conducting research in the humanities.he arrived at emory interested in law and history. “i did not,” he acknowledges, “take art history seriously separate from the larger discipline of history until taking contemporary art of europe and north america with professor lisa lee in the first semester of my first year.” through that spark, gibbs became deeply interested in the questions driving jones.“why are some works valued for tens of millions when works that look similar are valued in the low ten-thousands? i quickly learned that the higher-valued works were marketed as having a relationship to a european painter or a european modernist movement. that caught my attention,” he says.gibbs completed his work with jones and went abroad in his junior year, where he worked at a museum in florence, italy. his interest in african art ticked up again when susan elizabeth gagliardi, associate professor of art history, made him aware of the “william rubin kota,” which in 2015 sold for 5.5, then the third-highest price for a work of african art. “now its selling price is the 10th highest because the market is getting inflated,” says gibbs. “these higher valuations are bringing attention to african art and increasing what african artists can earn. but they are not profiting off these works. i am still disturbed at the profiteering on the part of american and european market players and auctioneers,” he says.yingyi tan, an undergraduate fellow majoring in history and economics, used ginseng in her thesis to explore chinese medical and food history, sino-american interactions, and maritime trade history.photo courtesy becky steinsharing a fox center residencygibbs wanted to explore the valuation of african art in his own right and so began an honors thesis and applied to the undergraduate fellows program, knowing that jones was at the fox center as well. their shared academic interest has blossomed into a friendship that gibbs knows will outlast their time at emory.“i was able to nurture in jacob what has become a genuine and strong interest in this material. i have met with him several times this semester to talk about his thesis research and helped prepare him for his defense. he will go on to do great things,” jones says. those “great things” will start with studying art law at columbia law school, where gibbs was recently accepted. “of the schools i applied to, they were the only one with a class on the art market,” says gibbs, who is also excited about being based in new york city, a home to great art. “i don’t know if i will leave there doing textbook art law. i definitely will do something related to copyright and intellectual property, ending up in the art world eventually,” gibbs pledges.as solid a team as gibbs and jones are, both acknowledge the larger support network at the fox center that has strengthened their effectiveness as humanities scholars.gibbs relishes being stimulated by “such smart people at the fox,” and jones concurs: “i have had a sense here of not just professional but personal support. i look forward to coming here; it is friendly and relaxed. everyone is interested in and supportive of each other’s work.”a place everyone thought they knew, a tour no one will forgetjust as she promised, freeman has shooed everyone out the door to experience the humanities in other places. the undergraduate fellows attended this year’s ellmann lectures, and a tour jones organized of the carlos museum received rave reviews.at emory since 2017, jones knows the collection well and had led many students through it.for this outing, she came up with a life-cycles theme, which she defines as objects that have content dealing with life cycles or objects that had an interesting life cycle in their use, collection or display. conceived as a tour primarily for the undergraduate fellows, many of the faculty and postdoctoral fellows were also eager participants.the visit was scheduled during what gibbs defined as “crunch time for my writing.” as a result, he says, “i went more to support haley than to learn. that was my first mistake, not realizing what she could teach me, indeed all of us. she came up with a fascinating theme. i am jealous of students who will take her classes; she is such a great teacher.”sharma, too, was impressed by what he learned.“this tour prompted us to think through critical issues underlying the collection, interpretation and exhibition of works of art in museums, with particular attention to challenges involved with displaying works of art from diverse cultures. this made the scholarship and debates within art history that i had read about feel alive and important in a very palpable way,” he notes.haley jones, the fox center dissertation completion fellow, led a tour of the carlos primarily to benefit the undergraduate fellows, but the senior fellows also turned out to hear her talk about “life cycles” in the context of the carlos collection.photo courtesy carla freemanstay tunedlater in april, at the colloquium, the center will celebrate and showcase the completed theses of the undergraduate fellows. “there is more work ahead and with new programming, outreach and collaboration, i have no doubt that the fox center will become an even more visible and vibrant hub for the arts and humanities,” says freeman.spotlight on two undergraduate fellowsfor a fuller look at the breadth of research undertaken by the students in this semester’s program, see the fellows page.majors: english/psychologythesis topic: the intersection of postcolonial theory and science fiction.quote: “in western science fiction especially, we tend to look at technology as a problem only once it becomes sentient when it controls itself rather than being controlled. what we need to do is examine technology in terms of the present and future: how is technology produced now; who uses it; who has access to it and who doesn’t; who is being dehumanized? that becomes a central concern, especially in indian science fiction.”takeaways from the fox center fellowship:“learning to present our findings professionally and succinctly.”“having a space to work in and a network of people creating opportunities and pointing me to more resources.”“understanding how my research fits into a wider humanistic framework and how it matters in the real world.”on to great things: mohan will pursue a phd at duke university in the fall.majors: neuroscience and behavioral biology/music compositionthesis topic: how music evokes emotional responses in listeners. the thesis consists of an original string quartet composition, “imlara,” and a written portion.quote: “after posting a video of myself on instagram at an early birthday party, the app added the second movement of rachmaninoff’s piano concerto no. 2. though i am a composer and musician, i had never heard the music, known for evoking nostalgia. that is exactly how it hit me, so i used my expertise in neuroscience to investigate music-evoked emotion.“i compiled a database of the music used in different studies and sorted them into emotional categories. with my musical training, how could i describe these effects? i used the elements of timbre (rough or smooth sound), texture (who is playing which sounds when?) and harmony (what chords and sound-worlds are being created?). i then built my composition with four movements to evoke joy, anger, fear and sadness.”takeaways from the fox center fellowship:“the passion, depth and complexity of my peers’ topics had me in awe.”“they taught us the priceless lesson of how to distill four years of study into five minutes to convince others employers, graduate programs about our projects.”“it was invaluable to be around others who have honed their craft to such a high level.”on to great things: osunkoya will attend medical school in the fall, with hopes of joining a lab studying music and medicine.
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