{"124711":{"#nid":"124711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Flamming Receives Guggenheim Fellowship and Geoffrey Eichholz Teaching Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDouglas Flamming,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eprofessor in the Ivan Allen College School of History, Technology, and Society has been honored with two prestigious awards that recognize his prowess in both scholarship and in teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named Flamming a 2012 Fellow in support of his research on his fourth book, \u201cLaw of Promise: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis Act transformed American society and politics,\u201d observes Flamming. \u201cIts foremost goal was to destroy Jim Crow racism in all walks of life. \u0026nbsp;In addition, it outlawed discrimination against women in the workplace.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI intend the book to be a study of democracy in action.\u0026nbsp; The narrative will focus on Congress and the passage of the Act, highlighting the pressures from all directions \u2013 civil rights protests, constituents, and the White House.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; My challenge \u2013 and my opportunity -- will be to recreate the 88th\u0026nbsp;Congress without losing sight of the fire hoses and attack dogs in Birmingham, without losing sight of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s towering ambitions, without losing the voices of ordinary constituents across the country.\u0026nbsp; My hope is that both scholars and general readers will see this transformative moment in a new light.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlamming is an internationally recognized historian who has published multiple prize-winning books and already earned some of the most prestigious fellowships available to scholars in the liberal arts.\u0026nbsp; The Guggenheim Fellowship places him among an impressive cadre of scholars who have \u201cadded to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of the U.S and the cause of better international understanding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlamming\u0027s Award-Winning Undergraduate Teaching\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlamming was also recognized this month with Georgia Tech\u2019s Geoffrey Eichholz Teaching Award. The award is given annually by the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) to two faculty\u0026nbsp;members who excel in their teaching of foundation courses (freshman and sophomore courses) at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDoug is the epitome of a scholar-teacher,\u201d said HTS Chair Steve Usselman, who noted that Flamming\u2019s classes - which are not required - are always full to capacity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHe is an enormously creative and daring instructor of undergraduates. His appeal springs from his generous spirit, which finds expression in his steady devotion to the craft of teaching -- above all, to cultivating and utilizing the power of the spoken word. Doug commands the room through his command of language.\u0026nbsp; His lectures are the stuff of legend; they are the sorts of experiences that stick with people for a lifetime.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERather than presenting a conventional survey of major events that students could glean from a text, Flamming\u2019s courses are an extended exploration of the idea of freedom in the U.S. since the Civil War. \u201cHow, he asks, have various groups and individuals perceived themselves to be growing more, or less, free?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlamming\u0027s devotion to working through that enormously complex issue with hundreds of undergraduates each semester led him to rewrite one of his scholarly books from scratch.\u0026nbsp;He wanted his work to speak more effectively to questions that had come to him from his students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHis commitment to teaching, far from interfering with his research, infused his scholarship with new meaning and significance,\u201d said Usselman.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Guggenheim Fellowship speaks clearly for Dr. Flamming\u2019s scholarship. A recent graduate of the Honors Program offered simpler praise when asked what advice she had for incoming students: \u201cTake a class from Dr. Flamming.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlamming was the recipient of the ANAK award, the Course Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS) Teaching Excellence Award in 2010-21011 and the Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award in 2006-2007.\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/flamming\u0022\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E about Doug Flamming.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDouglas Flamming,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eprofessor in the Ivan Allen College School of History, Technology, and Society has been honored with two prestigious awards that recognize his prowess in both scholarship and in teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-04-18 12:03:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:00","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"124671":{"id":"124671","type":"image","title":"Douglas Flamming","body":null,"created":"1449178593","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:33","changed":"1475894746","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:46","alt":"Douglas Flamming","file":{"fid":"194473","name":"doug_flamming_200x300_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/doug_flamming_200x300_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/doug_flamming_200x300_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32850,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/doug_flamming_200x300_0_0.jpg?itok=-4otmX4x"}}},"media_ids":["124671"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/current?page=2","title":"John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/flamming","title":"Douglas Flamming bio"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"624","name":"and Society"},{"id":"30691","name":"Douglas Flamming"},{"id":"12780","name":"guggenheim fellowship"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}