Annual Pellom McDaniels Sports History Program
Sponsored by: Office of the Provost, Hightower Speaker Fund, Emory College, Department of History, Department of African American Studies, and James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.
Join us for an engaging conversation at the intersection of race, sports, and social change. The event will feature a 75-minute moderated conversation, led by Dr. Carl Suddler, Professor of History at Emory University, and will include founding members of Black Players for Change (BPC) alongside U.S. Soccer leadership, offering timely insights into advocacy, leadership, and impact within the global game.
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Founded in 2021, the Pellom McDaniels Sports History Program is an annual, campus-wide event that
unites students, staff, and faculty for interdisciplinary dialogue on race, athletics, and African American
history. Honoring the legacy of the late Pellom McDaniels—curator of African American collections at Emory’s Rose Library—the program highlights the Library’s premier African…
University Event Topic: Academic Calendar. Arts. Alumni. Business. Campus Life & Student Orgs. Career Development. College. Commencement. Diversity. Faculty. Graduate. Humanities. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Justin Morrow, BPC Founding Member
Oguchi Onyewu, VP of Sporting, U.S. Soccer
Matthew Edwards, Defender, Atlanta United
Christa Mann, Founder of CMS Consulting
Moderated by: Dr. Carl Suddler, Emory University. Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pellom-mcdaniels-sports-history-lecture-series-tickets-1981583944922?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Dr. Carl Suddler. Contact Email: carl.suddler@emory.edu.
Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Woodruff Library, Room 311/Jones Room |
540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Dr. Marina Maccari-Clayton: "Alternative Pedagogies: Reacting to the Past"
All meetings will be on Zoom. Please email Dr. Laura Nenzi to receive the Zoom link.
University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Marina Maccari-Clayton, University of Tennessee. Series: HIST 790B: History Professions 2026. Contact Name: Dr. Laura Nenzi. Contact Email: laura.nenzi@emory.edu.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom.
Dr. Debjani Ganguly: "Planetary Realism, Speculative Form, and Vitalist Futures"
Sponsored by: Department of Comparative Literature & Department of English.
Co-sponsored by: Hightower Fund, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Film & Media Studies, Department of History, and Workshop in Colonial & Postcolonial Studies. Dr. Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. Her research specialties include modern and contemporary literatures in English; world literature; history and theory of the novel; postcolonial studies; literature and technology; and planetary humanities. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (2005), and the editor of the two-volume The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021). Her latest monograph, Catastrophic Modes and Planetary Realism, is in press with Cambridge University Press. She is the general editor with Francesca Orsini of the monograph series, Cambridge Studies…
University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia & Harvard University. Contact Name: Claire Peterman. Contact Email: ckpete3@emory.edu.
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Candler School of Theology, Room 360.