List of Emory University people

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

Alumni

Selected Emory people
Alben Barkley (1900C, 1949H), 35th Vice President of the United States
Iconic golfer Bobby Jones (1929JD)
Baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell (1940C)
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor
Salman Rushdie, iconic novelist and University Distinguished Professor

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

  • Julien Binford – painter
  • Jane Jackson (Davis) (BA 1979) – photography curator, former art dealer, founding director of The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, editor of Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection
  • Steven Newsome – arts administrator[61]

Other

  • Christopher McCandless (BA 1990) – subject of Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Trip Payne (BA 1990[62]) – 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

  • Robb LaKritz (JD, 1997) – former Advisor to the Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary, appointed by President George W. Bush
  • Jonathan Levy (BA 2004) – clean energy executive, former Congressional staffer and Obama Administration official, including Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
  • Jody Powell (PhD) – White House Press Secretary under Jimmy Carter
  • David Poythress (BA 1964, JD 1967) – former Secretary of State and Commissioner of Labor of the state of Georgia

U.S. Governors and Lieutenant Governors

Legislators

U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
State legislators and city officials

Diplomats

  • David Adelman (JD 1989) – United States Ambassador to Singapore
  • Gordon Giffin (JD 1974) – 34th Ambassador of the United States to Canada
  • John Hubert Kelly (BA 1961) – United States diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Finland
  • Larry Leon Palmer (BA 1970) – United States diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Honduras

Military

Judges

U.S. Supreme Court Justices
  • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II) (BA 1845) – former United States Supreme Court Justice and Senator from Mississippi
Federal and state judges

Attorneys

Activists

  • Larry Klayman (JD 1977[86]) – founder of Judicial Watch
  • Ralph E. Reed, Jr. (PhD[87]) – conservative political activist
  • Wendy Rosenberg-Nadel (BA 1982[88]) – launched Volunteer Emory, received Emory Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007
  • Yun Chi-ho (BA) – politician, educator; independence activist in Korea in the early 20th century

Religion

Bishops

Ministers and theologians

Science

Medicine

Technology

Sports

Honorary degrees

Faculty

African American studies

Business

  • Narasimhan Jegadeesh – Dean's Distinguished University Chair in 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
  • 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

  • Harold J. Berman (law professor 1985–retirement) – founder of the American Law Center in Moscow, co-founder of the World Law Institute
  • Michael Broyde (born 1964) – law professor
  • Kathleen Neal Cleaver – activist and senior lecturer
  • Bruce Frohnen – Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Pettit College of Law

Literature

  • Geoffrey Bennington – literary critic and philosopher, expert on deconstruction
  • Cathy Caruth – literary critic and founder of trauma studies
  • 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

  • Robert Wayne Alexander – chair of the medical school, 1999
  • 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[120]
  • 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[121] 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

  • Robert Agnew – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology; developer of General Strain Theory
  • Sam Cherribi – Moroccan-Dutch politician and senior lecturer in sociology at Emory
  • Frans de Waal – Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Religion

Presidents of Emory

  1. Ignatius Alphonso Few, 1836–1839[122]
  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 L. 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–present

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