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List of faculty and alumni of Emory University

This is a list of influential and newsworthy people affiliated with Emory University, a private university in Atlanta. The list includes professors, staff, graduates, and former students belonging to one of Emory's two undergraduate or seven graduate schools.

Alumni

Pulitzer Prize

Academia

Presidents of academic institutions

Professors

Business

Arts and letters

Film and television

Journalism and non-fiction writing

Literature and poetry

Music

Visual art

Other

  • Christopher McCandless (BA 1990) – subject of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Trip Payne (BA 1990) – puzzle constructor and three-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion
  • Joshua Schwadron – featured in the March 2003 publication of GQ magazine, which honored him as its national college "Big Man on Campus"

Politics

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

Heads of state

U.S. vice presidents

U.S. cabinet secretaries and other prominent federal government officials

U.S. governors and lieutenant governors

Legislators

U.S. senators
  • Nathan Philemon Bryan (BA 1893) – former U.S. senator from Florida
  • William James Bryan (BA 1896) – former U.S. senator from Florida
  • Wyche Fowler (JD 1969) – former U.S. senator from Georgia and ambassador
  • Carte Goodwin (JD 1999) – politician and attorney who briefly served as junior United States senator from West Virginia
  • George LeMieux (BA 1991) – U.S. senator from Florida
  • Thomas M. Norwood (BA 1850) – U.S. senator and representative from Georgia
  • Sam Nunn (BA 1960, LLB 1962) – former U.S. senator from Georgia
  • Tom Stewart (attended) – former U.S. senator from Tennessee
U.S. representatives
State legislators and city officials

Mayors

Diplomats

Military

Judges

U.S. Supreme Court justices
Federal and state judges

Attorneys

Activists

Religion

Bishops

Ministers and theologians

Science

Medicine

Technology

Sports

Honorary degrees

Faculty

African American studies

Business

  • Lawrence Benveniste – Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School
  • Benn Konsynski – George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis at the Goizueta Business School
  • Paul Rubin – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law
  • Jagdish Sheth – Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School

History

  • Michael Bellesiles – controversial author of Arming America
  • Dan T. Carter – historian of the modern South
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese – feminist historian and a primary voice of the conservative women's movement
  • Eugene Genovese – historian of the American South and American slavery
  • Barbara Krauthamer – historian of African Americans
  • Jeffrey Lesser – historian of Latin America, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and chair of the History Department
  • Gyanendra Pandey – a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project
  • Mark Ravina – scholar of early modern (Tokugawa) Japanese history
  • Kenneth Stein – William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies

Journalism

  • Hank Klibanoff – former managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, current journalism professor

Law

Literature

  • Geoffrey Bennington – literary critic and philosopher, expert on deconstruction
  • Jericho Brown – Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing and Interim Director of Creative Writing
  • Michael A. Elliott – Charles Howard Candler Professor of English, 20th president of Amherst College
  • Richard Ellmann – Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar
  • Mikhail Epstein – S.C. Dobbs Professor of cultural theory and Russian literature
  • Shoshana Felman – literary critic, commentator on psychoanalysis, and founder of trauma theory
  • Ha Jin – Chinese-American writer, former professor of English at Emory; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • James H. Morey – professor of English, expert in Middle English
  • Salman Rushdie – author and literary scholar
  • Avi Sharon – professor of classics, translator, consultant
  • Stephen Spender – artist in residence, mid-1980s
  • Natasha Trethewey – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, United States Poet Laureate 2012 and Robert W. Woodruff professor of English and Creative Writing

Philosophy

Political science

Medicine

  • Renato D. Alarcón – head of the Department of Psychiatry
  • Robert Wayne Alexander – chair of the medical school, 1999
  • Daniel Brat – neuropathologist and academic, Emory professor 1999–2017, current Magerstadt Professor of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Doug Bremner – professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, School of Medicine, author
  • Sanjay Gupta – assistant professor of Neurosurgery at Emory; CNN medical correspondent
  • Thomas R. Insel – neuroscientist; director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory 1994–1999; left to become director of the National Institute of Mental Health
  • Mildred M. Jordan – president of the Medical Library Association
  • Melvin Konner – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and associate professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Han Qide (韩启德) – vice chairman of the National People's Congress of China; previously with Emory School of medicine 1985–1987 and Woodruff Medal Winner in 2006
  • Barbara Rothbaum – psychologist and head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory
  • Neil B. Shulman – associate professor in the School of Medicine, author, children's book writer, website and movie developer
  • Eric Sorscher – professor, Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research

Music

  • Eric Nelson – director of Choral Studies; conductor of Emory's 40-voice Concert Choir and its 180-voice University Chorus; 2004 recipient of "Crystal Apple" award for excellence in teaching at Emory

Science and technology

Sociology

Religion

Presidents of Emory

  1. Ignatius Alphonso Few, 1836–1839
  2. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1840–1848
  3. George Foster Pierce, 1848–1854
  4. Alexander Means, 1854–1855
  5. James R. Thomas, 1855–1867
  6. Luther M. Smith (1848C), 1867–1871
  7. Osborn Lewis Smith (1842C), 1871–1875
  8. Atticus Green Haygood (1859C), 1875–1884
  9. Isaac Stiles Hopkins (1859C), 1884–1888
  10. Warren Akin Candler (1875C), 1888–1898
  11. Charles E. Dowman (1873C), 1898–1902
  12. James Edward Dickey (1891C), 1902–1915
  13. Harvey Warren Cox, 1920–1942
  14. Goodrich C. White (1908C), 1942–1957
  15. S. Walter Martin, 1957–1962
  16. Sanford S. Atwood, 1963–1977
  17. James T. Laney, 1977–1993
  18. Billy E. Frye (1954G, 1956 Ph.D.), 1993–1994
  19. William Chace, 1994–2003
  20. James W. Wagner, 2003–2016
  21. Claire E. Sterk, 2016–2020
  22. Gregory L. Fenves, 2020–present

References

  • "Emory University," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 1, 2006: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
  • Gleason, Jan. "Emory ranked 9th-best national university by U.S. News & World Report magazine" in Emory Report (Atlanta: Emory Report, 1997), Volume 50 No. 1.
  • Hauk, Gary S. A Legacy of Heart and Mind : Emory since 1836 (Atlanta: Emory University, developed and produced by Bookhouse Group, Inc., 1999).
  • Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University," in Emory College Catalog 2003–2005 (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9–15.

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