Elon Core Curriculum

The Elon Biology Department hosted two days of demonstrations, reenacting the prehistoric human migrations from Africa 100,000 years ago, to help supplement the first-year common reading selection "Futureface," by author and journalist Alex Wagner.

A large turn-out of faculty, staff, and students met to eat good food and engage in discussions about Alex Wagner’s book Futureface.

Amy Johnson, associate professor of history and the executive director of the Elon Core Curriculum co-authors article in the Haitain History Journal

President Connie Ledoux Book presented the medallion to a retired faculty member, a retired staff member and a long-time Cone Health executive and supporter of the School of Health Sciences. Faculty members selected for named professorships were also honored as the faculty/staff Planning Week got underway. 

Evan A. Gatti, associate professor of art history and associate director of the Elon Core Curriculum, presented "Drawn in Ink With Love: Desire in Looking at and Looking Back” and "Re-Presentation and a Theology of Images" at the International Medieval Studies Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

Amy Johnson published article entitled "Slave Resistance in the Atlantic World" on Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History.

Amy Johnson, Evan Gatti and Matthew Buckmaster present "Intentionally Global: An examination of the “global citizen” through intentional connections between the Core Curriculum &
Global Education at Elon University" at CIEE Conference.

Students, faculty and staff discussed issues of educational inequality at  this month's Global Neighborhood House Dinner.

Green's "Something Must be Done About Prince Edward County" is Elon's Common Reading selection for 2018-19. Her visit is hosted by the Elon Core Curriculum and the Office of Cultural and Special Programs. 

Amy Johnson, associate professor of history and director of the Elon Core Curriculum, presented a paper entitled "Sustainable Identities: Indigenous Incorporation among the Maroons of Jamaica."