The Only Doctor
Matthew Hashiguchi, Communication Arts
Matthew Hashiguchi is a Peabody Award–winning documentary filmmaker, a 2024 Wyncote PBS Fellow, and a Professor of Multimedia and Film Production at Georgia Southern University. His latest film, The Only Doctor, earned the 2025 Peabody Award for Public Service and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Reel South and internationally on Al Jazeera Witness. The film was also supported by the 2019 Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund and the 2021 American Stories Documentary Fund from Points North Institute and CNN Films. It premiered at the 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival. This documentary is on rural health.
“Doing the Good Work in Uncertain Times,” Plenary Panel Presentation, 2025 ADE-ALD Summer Seminar, NYC
Dr. Elizabeth Howells, English
Plenary Session on the challenge of leading in higher ed in our current context.
“Barbie: A 21st Century Star Vehicle.”
Amanda Konkle, PhD, English
This chapter analyzes how the star personae of the actors in the 2023 Barbie film contribute to the film’s messages regarding feminism and masculinity.
“Leading through Consolidations, Mergers, and Restructuring.” 2025 ADE-ALD Summer Seminar, NYC
Dr. Elizabeth Howells, English
Leading through Consolidations, Mergers, and Restructuring This discussion group will begin by thinking about consolidations and mergers as part of a bigger picture and then shift to working through the nuts and bolts of consolidations in practice. This introduction will set the stage for a collaborative conversation (or conversations) about how best to confront the range of consolidations, mergers, and restructurings we may be encountering at our own institutions.
Art Appreciation
Cynthia Costa, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art
Art Appreciation by Cynthia Costa is an accessible textbook that introduces key concepts of visual art, including design principles, media, techniques, symbolism, and iconography. It situates artworks in historical and global contexts while engaging with contemporary issues like globalization, digital media, social justice, and environmental sustainability. Through discussions, case studies, and practical guidance on art careers and preservation, the book helps readers interpret art’s meanings and understand its role in shaping individual identity and shared culture.
Should You Merge before They Merge You?
Dr. Elizabeth Howells, English
The prospect of a department or program merger can be profoundly fraught, raising anxiety around personnel, resources, and identity. Is there ever an instance where a merger can be a positive, an opportunity for “better together”? In this session, participants will learn how to assess the motives for mergers and implement strategies for success.
They Whisper in Your Ear
Martin Gendelman, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
They Whisper In Your Ear (version for 4 percussionists), performed by Tambor Fantasma Percussion Ensemble (Buenos Aires) as part of their The Book of Bones program. Like the sounds of a musical work, when people die they come to exist only in our memory. As in music, over time our memory of the dead becomes subject to countless associations, continuities, and interruptions that reshape the way we represent those we have lost. They Whisper in Your Ear draws on these ideas to propose a musical journey in which an intimate gesture gradually transforms and expands across time—through space, dynamic range, frequency spectrum, and timbre—resulting in a sonic construction that, like the memory of our dead, may be ephemeral, barely perceptible, striking, bittersweet, or overwhelming, but is always inevitable.
For Adrianne
Martin Gendelman, Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music
For Adrianne, for violin and stereo electronics. Premiered at the Otis Johnson Cultural Arts Center in March of 2022, the piece was released by Neuma Records in Adrianne Munden-Dixon’s 2025 solo album VIsion Mantra. The piece –which was originally presented with 8 speakers around the audience and the performer moving across the hall– explores the musical potential of contemporary techniques for the violin and utilizes the multi-channel electronics to suggest artificial acoustic spaces that add a dynamic depth to the live violin part.
The Ashurst Sisters: Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century
Allison Scardino Belzer, History
The Ashurst Sisters: Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century is the first biography of four British sisters who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential campaigners. With the help of their parents, they built sophisticated transnational networks advancing anti-slavery, Italian unification, and women’s rights across Britain, Europe, and America. Despite their formal exclusion from power, they found new ways to influence society through translating innovative texts, fundraising for causes, and publishing calls for change.
New Studies in Cartesian Physics: Shadows, Holes, and Boundaries
William Eaton, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Although Descartes’s approach to physics was abandoned years ago, it has hitherto unappreciated consequences which can still contribute to discussions in contemporary metaphysics. Shadows and holes turn out to be physical objects, but boundary conditions between objects can be clearly established. Understanding just where Cartesian physics breaks down not only deepens our understanding of the scientific revolution but also has application to current philosophical problems.
Challenging Anti-Fatness Amid the Climate Crisis
Paul Tubig, Philosophy and Religious Studies
This paper seeks to challenge a growing interpretation in environmental bioethics and environmental sustainability movements that link fat bodies to climate change. We argue that such an interpretation is not only based on flawed assumptions, but its increasing circulation is physically, psychologically, and socially harmful to already stigmatized people.
Trading Time for Tissue: The Morality of Organ Donation Programs in Prisons
Paul Tubig, Philosophy and Religious Studies
This blog post discusses the complicated ethical questions around programs that allow incarcerated individuals to donate their organ or tissue in exchange for reduced prison sentences.
No Longer “Super”: Soldier Disenhancement, PIAAAS Harms, and the Duty of Long-Term Care
Paul Tubig, Philosophy and Religious Studies
This paper examines the ethics of “disenhancing” soldiers whose physical and mental capabilities have been enhanced via biotechnologies and neurotechnologies. We argue that the pursuit to enhance soldiers must also address the potential ethical questions of disenhancing some of them. We argue that disenhancement could produce harms to a soldier’s agency and identity and therefore military institutions pursuing enhancement have a moral responsibility to provide the necessary care to soldiers who undergo processes of disenhancement.
Video Production for Industry Clients: A Guide to Creating Corporate Media
Dean Cummings, Ph.D., Communication Arts
This book prepares media students for the reality of corporate video production―where sustainable careers exist but success depends on more than just technical skills. Unlike traditional filmmaking texts, it focuses specifically on creating videos for businesses, marketing agencies, and in-house media departments where most graduates actually find employment.
Beyond the Bias: The Hegemony of Corporatizing Journalism
Dean Cummings, Ph.D., Communication Arts
This book chapter examines how the increasing media consolidation and corporate ownership are shaping local television news. Using interpretive research and quantitative data, the chapter considers the broader implications of concentrated media ownership for social responsibility and news diversity.
Canajoharie: The Boiling Pot
Dean Cummings, Ph.D., Communication Arts
When a grieving professor returns to his dying hometown for the funeral of his first love, he discovers she secretly bore his son—and is forced to confront a lifetime of guilt, lost love, and a mysterious spiritual presence that refuses to let him leave again.
Scars Along the Mohawk
Dean Cummings, Ph.D., Communication Arts
A documentary about Canajoharie, New York, once home to the Mohawk people of the Iroquois Nation, and its identity was deeply rooted in Native American history and folklore, even finding a place in Drums Along the Mohawk. In the early 20th century, Beech-Nut transformed the town into an industrial center, but after 118 years, the factory closed in 2011. Today, with much of its Native heritage diminished and its industrial identity gone, Canajoharie is a town still struggling to heal from the scars of its past.
The Gen Z Dilemma
Dean Cummings, Ph.D., Communication Arts
This documentary was produced by the Georgia Southern University Multimedia and Film Production Program as part of the Fall 2025 News Documentary course.