Publications
Kutzler continues local history series with "An Americus Lynching"
Dr. Evan Kutzler, assistant professor of history, continued his local history series with a series of four articles in the Americus Times-Recorder titled "An Americus Lynching." Published in in four parts throughout June and July, the series examines 1913 lynching of Will Redding on the corner of Cotton Avenue and Lamar Street.
- Part 1: Facing South on Cotton Avenue
- Part 2: The Law of Cotton Avenue
- Part 3: The Lost Counternarrative
- Part 4: Remembering and Commemorating
Dehzooei examines economic impact of pandemic
Dr. Mohammad Dehzooei, assistant professor of economics, has published a report on the economic impacts of COVID-19. The pandemic affects the economy by contractions in commerce, tourism and trade as well as by raising production costs. Dehzooei's paper, which is published by the World Bank, predicts that the economy of Iran, one of the hardest hit countries by the pandemic, is going to contract by 5.3 percent in 2020-21, household income is going to be reduced by 14 percent and the income loss is larger for poorer households. The paper also show that as a result of these effects the poverty rate increases by 7 to 8.5 percentage points in the same year.
