Emory As Place - Meaning in a University Landscape

Offers physical, though mute, evidence of how landscape and population have shaped each other over decades of debate about architecture, curriculum, and resources. More than that, the physical development of the place mirrors the university's awareness of itself as an arena of tension between the past and the future.

About the author

GARY S. HAUK is the university historian of Emory University, where he served in senior administrative positions for thirty years. He is also senior editorial consultant at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion and a longtime board member and officer of Georgia Humanities. He is the author of A Legacy of Heart and Mind: Emory since 1836 and Religion and Reason Joined: Candler at One Hundred.

Summary

The history of a university resides not just in its archives but also in the place itself—the walkways and bridges, the libraries and classrooms, the gardens and creeks winding their way across campus. To think of Emory as place, as Gary S.

Product details

• Authors: Gary S Hauk, Gary S. Hauk
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780820355627
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5562-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Arc; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Arc; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University Publications Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries