Student Spotlight - March 2023
George Anthony Pratt is a senior history and religion double major and leadership studies minor from Jacksonville, FL. During his matriculation, Mr. Pratt has engaged in various leadership positions including Senator At-Large, SGA Policy and Compliance Officer, and Editor of the Howard Thurman Honors Program Journal. Currently, he serves as the founding executive director of HouseCorps, a student collective in the Andrew Young Center dedicated to amplifying marginalized narratives through oral history and the digital humanities. While this initiative began as Pratt’s Social Justice and Leadership Innovation Award project, it has morphed into a student fellowship that is presently spearheading the curation of the campus mural and a multimedia project highlighting queer students.
As an undergraduate, Mr. Pratt has received numerous awards and scholarships. In 2020, he won the famed Otis Moss Oratorical Competition, and in 2022 was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and named the college’s Martin Luther King Jr. scholar. He was selected by the English- Speaking Union as the 2021-22 Luard Morse Scholar to study sociology and religion for a semester abroad at the University of Manchester. Mr. Pratt has also participated in several fellowships including the UNCF Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Quarterman-Keller Social Justice Scholarship, Covenant Fellowship, Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers, and Pride Network’s Transformational Leadership Initiative.
Mr. Pratt has presented his research in the areas of cultural/ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, intellectual history, and philosophy and religion at various conferences and symposia including the Association of Black Women Historians, Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference, Mellon Southeast Regional Conferences, and National Association of African American Honors Programs. In addition to publications in undergraduate humanities and literary journals, he has completed summer research programs at Emory University and the University of California, Irvine. Following graduation in May, Mr. Pratt will complete an MA at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar with hopes of subsequently obtaining a PhD in Theology and Religion. Mr. Pratt is keen to become a public intellectual and enter the professoriate as a scholar of Black studies and Religion.
