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Barbara McCaskill helps English major Laura Essex with a project during her literary magazine editing class. Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski

Dr Barbara McCaskill featured in Columns

Barbara McCaskill's parents grew up in the segregated South under Jim Crow laws.

Who Can Afford to Improvise?

Dr. Ed Pavlić discusses James Baldwin during a radio interview Raoul Peck, director of the new Baldwin documentary, and others

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Painting of Sequoyah

Watch the Searching For Sequoyah trailer!

Searching For Sequoyah is a documentary about the man who invented a written form of the Cherokee language.  The film begins with the familiar story of Cherokee syllabary, but also looks at the much lesser known stories of the Old

Dr McCaskill with the award

Barbara McCaskill Receives MLK Award

The University of Georgia presented the "President's Fulfilling the Dream Award" to Dr. Barbara McCaskill and three other members of the university and Athens communities at the annual MLK Freedom Breakfast on 13 January 2017.

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Dr Sujata Iyengar Secures Partner University Fund Grant

UPDATE: Registration for the upcoming “Bedchamber Scenes/Scènes de lit” symposium (12-13 April) is now available.

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