Averett Academic Colloquium: Information
During the Fall Semester 2022, Blount Library launched a series called the “Averett Academic Colloquium,” thru which faculty members presented some of their research and other topics of interest to the Averett University community.
If you or students in your classes would like to be a presenter and share your research, please contact Dr. Groskopf at jgroskopf@averett.edu.
Presentations 2024-2025
Dr. Jeremy Groskopf, "I Get Along Fine So Long as I Work My Work': Rediscovering African American Labor in the Averett Archives" (27 Feb. 2025)
Dr. Ernest Pegram on the economics of the U.S. Civil War (11 March 2025)
Presentations 2023-2024
Dr. Jennifer Hughes, "Broken Idols: How Mark Twain Grieved" (18 Sept '23)
Natalie Hodge, CEO of Rudy's Girl Media, "The Media Hustle: Business Lessons Learned from LA, NYC, and Southside VA" (Presentation for International Entrepreneurship Week, 14 Nov. '23)
Dr. Jeremy Groskopf, "The Averett Quiz: When Averett Recruitment was a Broadcast Game Show" (25 Mar. '24)
Presentations 2022-2023
Dr. Ernest Pegram on Cryptocurrency (11 Oct '22)
Kevin Harden on Songwriting (1 Nov '22)
Dr. Sergei Samoilenko on Digitalization (10 Nov '22)
Dr. Catherine Clark, "It Began with a Book about the Girl: Montgomery’s Anne and Colette’s Claudine" (29 Mar '23)
Dr. Andrew Canady, "Robert Russa Moton High School (Farmville, VA) and the Civil Rights Movement" (13 Apr '23)
Dr. Ralph Hawkins, "Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt" (18 Apr '23)
Natalie Hodge on "The Media Hustle," 14 Nov. 2023
Dr. Jennifer Hughes discussing Mark Twain, Sept. 2023
