Image: Kudos to Dr. Frans Weiser, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies for being selected for the 2024-2025 Study in Second Discipline Fellows Program by the UGA Provost Office. Dr. Weiser, a LACSI's joint-appointment faculty and the Institute's Undergraduate Advisor, will pursue the program's Teaching-Intensive Track to develop a new interdisciplinary course. From the program's webpage: Study in a Second Discipline Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to tenured faculty members who have established a record of scholarly activity within their base discipline and have received an overall annual evaluation of meets or exceeds expectations for the prior two calendar years. The Teaching-Intensive Track gives tenured faculty release time to develop a new, innovative and interdisciplinary course combining the knowledge learned through Study in a Second Discipline with the faculty member’s primary discipline. Tags: Faculty Awards
