The Atlantic World Research Network
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In more ways than one, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro stands on the verge of the Atlantic World. Poised in the Piedmont, we look out towards an Atlantic Rim that has shaped our past, enriches our present, and is likely to define our future. Our history and identity have been made largely by the crossing of Atlantic waters, often freely, though sometimes in chains. As the peoples and civilizations of Europe, Africa, and the Americas have encountered, collided, and combined, we have created one of the world’s first truly global cultures—and one that remains hotly contested.
Now, building on the success of UNCG’s 2004 Atlantic World Conference and its many ongoing Atlantic World initiatives, Provost David Perrin and Dean of the College Tim Johnston announce the formation of the Atlantic World Research Network. This interdisciplinary network will embrace and foster Atlantic World research, teaching, and creative work across campus—in the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Social Sciences, and across the Academic Units: in the Schools of Business, Education, Health and Human Performance, Human Environmental Sciences, Music and Nursing, and in the Library and the Lloyd International Honors College. From sponsored speakers, lunchtime colloquia, and curricular development to graduate student research awards, publications, grant-writing, readings and exhibitions, and international conferences both here and abroad, this new Network will bring the Atlantic World home to UNCG, and UNCG around the world.