At Emory University, German Studies is a freestanding department within the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. It offers a pedagogically-driven and integrated undergraduate major and minor in German Studies. In addition, the German Studies faculty teach courses in Yiddish language and culture, the Program in Linguistics, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Sustainability Minor, the Departments of Music and Film & Media Studies, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Faced with Germany’s abhorrent Nazi past and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as well as the legacy of German colonialism, the Department is particularly committed to critically examine cultural memories of oppression and resistance, and therefore actively promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in research, coursework, and outreach.
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Didem Uca, Assistant Professor of German Studies, received the inaugural Early Career Award from the German Special Interest Group of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This award acknowledges the outstanding contributions of an early-career faculty member in the teaching and mentorship of students within and beyond the classroom.
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Miriam Udel, Associate Professor Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, has been named the 2024 Covenant Foundation Jewish Family Education Fellow. Over the next year, Udel will use the fellowship to bring her research on children's literature into Jewish education spaces, both formal and informal.