Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues,
Today we hosted an on-campus vaccine clinic where over 150 COVID-19 vaccinations were administered — mostly to students and also for staff and faculty. Thank you for your help with promoting the clinic to our students, for allowing students to be absent from class in some cases, and for supporting colleagues who chose to get the vaccine today.
We are incredibly grateful to Reagan Pharmacy for partnering with Oxford College to bring the vaccine to campus and for returning to campus on April 28 to deliver the second dose.
As more members of our community are vaccinated, we look forward even more to returning to in-person community. We see hope on the horizon and will continue to stay vigilant. Thank you for taking care of each other.
Best,
Doug
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Southern Circuit Film Series: Socks on Fire |
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The Southern Circuit Film Series at Oxford College concludes spring semester offerings with the April 10-13 screening of Socks on Fire.
The documentary/narrative film Socks on Fire puts a filmmaker in between a rich cast of characters as they wage war over their mother’s estate in Hokes Bluff, Ala., with a Q&A with the film’s director, Bo McGuire, following the presentation.
When the matriarch of a large Southern family passes without a will, things can get a little heated. As her children battle over the estate, long-hidden resentments and unpleasant personal convictions come to the surface and ignite new skirmishes that rip apart relationships. Going beyond conventual non-fiction storytelling, Socks on Fire employs a series of stylized reenactments, family home videos, and colorful interviews to document the fluidity of identity, personality, and performance in the filmmaker’s family.
“Socks on Fire is a transgenerational docudrama couched in the battle royal for my Nanny’s throne,” says McGuire. “I returned home from New York City to find that my Aunt Sharon, my favorite childhood relative, had locked her gay, drag-queen brother, my Uncle John, out of the family home. As a queer Southerner, who can be both equally protective and skeptical of the South, Aunt Sharon stoked a fire within me to document the place and the people I call home.”
Oxford College is one of the hosts of the 2020-21 Southern Circuit tour of independent films. An initiative of the Atlanta-based arts organization South Arts, Southern Circuit brings the best of independent film to communities across the South.
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Second-year student Wittika Chaplet 21Ox 23C was featured in a recent episode of The Moment, a podcast from the Emory College Woodruff Scholars Program. Chaplet appears in the episode on The 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Dean’s Achievement Scholars where cohort members discuss the fascinations, conflicts, and commitments that brought them to the Scholars Program. Podcast episodes are available online.
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Gary Glass, director of counseling and career services, is the author of the
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Oxford College Chaplain Lyn Pace's monthly column appeared in the Covington News on March 26. Read "Holy Week as Pilgrimage" online.
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Josh Mousie, assistant professor of philosophy, co-authored the journal article "How do Houses make the Political Possible?, " with two of his former Oxford College students, Gabriel Eisen and Mahaa Mahmood. The piece appeared in Environmental Philosophy, the journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Eisen and Mahmood were Oxford Research Scholars during the 2017-2018 academic year. From the article's abstract: We develop the concept “political residency” in this essay to highlight both the foundational role of built environments in our political life as well as how access to, and displacement from, built environments is therefore a central feature of political harms and goods.
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Pablo Palomino, assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies,
was invited to give a virtual talk at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for their Latin American Dialogues Speakers Series about his book The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transactional History. The talk was featured on WUTC, Chattanooga's NPR station, and can be heard online.
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Emory Day of Giving a Huge Success for Oxford |
Thank you so much for your efforts supporting Emory Day of Giving on March 24. Because of you, Oxford won the Faculty and Staff Challenge! That’s right, we won first place out of ALL SCHOOLS AND UNITS AT EMORY! Oxford is receiving an extra $500 from the University.
Oxford also:
- Placed second place of all schools and units for number of donors — 354.
- Placed third place of all schools and units for most dollars raised — $72,775.
- Met all four of the donor matches which totaled $27,500.
- Won the student organization leaderboard with 40 gifts to the Oxford Class Gift.
- Won the Final Countdown from 9:00-11:00 p.m. with most dollars raised in that time period — $11,960.
- Won “Toast Away Wonderful Wednesday” with 49 gifts that came in within a certain time from alumni.
- Won “Wonderful Wednesday Alumni Challenge” for most gifts raised from alumni between 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Oxford is receiving $500 from the University.
None of this would be possible without your support! The AAE team can’t thank you enough.
If you haven’t had a chance to make a gift or wish to make another gift, there is still time. Visit the website to participate.
Thank you for all that you do for Oxford College!
Kevin Smyrl and Tammy Camfield
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Friends of Oxford Award
Please consider nominating Atlanta campus colleagues for the annual Friends of Oxford Award. This recognition shows our appreciation to a colleague who has aided and worked closely with us. Each year we honor this person with a gift from Oxford.
Nominees should be someone you believe fits the following criteria:
- Works closely with more than one person at Oxford
- Includes Oxford when making plans at Emory OR remains mindful of our mission/needs when conducting work at Emory
- Helps make an improvement in our work and life at Oxford
Please submit nominations using this online form. Nominations are due by Friday, April 2, at 5:00 p.m. If you wish to nominate someone you nominated in previous years, please feel free to do so.
Past recipients include:
2010 Terry Brown, Operations Coordinator
2011 Kurt Haas, Business Analyst II
2012 Scott Allen, Senior Associate Dean of Admission
2013 Barry Atwood, Manager, Graphic Design
2014 Craig T. Watson, Chief of Police
2015 Glenn Kulasiewicz, Project Manager, Campus Services Planning, Design & Construction
2016 Danielle Steele, Director, LGBT Life
2017 Mindy Hyman, Assistant Director, Development & Alumni Relations
2018 Jay Flanagan, LITS Enterprise Email & Messaging, and Natallia Mazol, Bon Appetit
2019 Laura Redfern, Associate Director, Communications & Marketing
2020 Scott Rausch, Senior Director of Residential Education in Campus Life
Fleming Staff Service Award
The Fleming Staff Service Award will be presented to an Oxford College staff member emphasizing outstanding service to Oxford College. Please send your nomination letters directly via email to Sarah Dobbs by Friday, April 2.
The award can be presented to a staff member more than once and if you wish to nominate someone you nominated in previous years, please feel free to do so.
Past Fleming Staff Award recipient include:
Sheilah Conner, Faye Fuller, Alan Mitchell, Sammy Clark, Gene Heard, Mary Cohen, Rosemary Kriner, Jennie Taylor, Rodger Brunson, Marvlyn Corbin, Joy Budensiek, Charlie Mathis, Tammy Camfield, Danielle Dockery, Lyn Pace, Janice Ly, and all staff of Oxford College.
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Alumnus honored with Newton County award |
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Covington-Newton County Chamber of Commerce presented the annual R.O. Arnold Award to
Wendell Crowe 60Ox at the organization's annual meeting on March 25. This prestigious award is given annually to someone within the business community showing continued involvement and support of the local community. Read more about the award and Crowe's dedication to Covington and Newton County in the award coverage by the Covington News.
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Lecture: Kim TallBear: Identity is a Poor Substitute For Relating: Genetics, Critical Polyamory, and Property
2021 Lyceum Lecture Series: Toward a Social Justice Spring
co-sponsored by Oxford’s WGSS program & Emory’s Studies in Sexualities
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Take a Break Tuesday
Student Center front plaza | 1:30-2:45 p.m.
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Lecture: Aaron Belkin: Judicial Reform and the Restoration of Democracy: Why the US Supreme Court Must Be Expanded
2021 Lyceum Lecture Series: Toward a Social Justice Spring
co-sponsored by Oxford’s WGSS program & Emory’s Studies in Sexualities
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Erin Markey: Performance, "Little Surfer in Progress"
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Five Fridays with James Baldwin Virtual Film Series: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Email Eric Solomon to RSVP and receive Zoom link | 7:00 p.m.
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Southern Circuit Film Series—Socks on Fire
Screening available to view through April 13
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Take a Break Tuesday
Student Center front plaza | 1:30-2:45 p.m.
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Lecture: Alex Zamalin: Beyond Civility: The White Supremacist Roots of Civility in the U.S.
2021 Lyceum Lecture Series: Toward a Social Justice Spring
Co-sponsored by Emory College’s Department of Political Science
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