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

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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
Kai Rysdall, radio journalist and the host of Marketplace

Pulitzer Prize

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Academia

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Presidents of academic institutions

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Professors

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Business

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Arts and letters

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Film and television

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Journalism and non-fiction writing

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Literature and poetry

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Music

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Visual art

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Other

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Politics

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

Heads of state

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U.S. vice presidents

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

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U.S. governors and lieutenant governors

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Legislators

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U.S. senators
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U.S. representatives
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State legislators and city officials
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Mayors

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Diplomats

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Military

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Judges

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U.S. Supreme Court Justices
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Federal and state judges
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Attorneys

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Activists

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Religion

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Bishops

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Ministers and theologians

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Science

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Medicine

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Technology

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Sports

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Honorary degrees

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Faculty

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African American studies

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Business

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History

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Journalism

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

Law

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Literature

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  • 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[109]
  • 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

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Political science

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Medicine

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Music

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  • 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

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Sociology

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Religion

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Presidents of Emory

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  1. Ignatius Alphonso Few, 1836–1839[114]
  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

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  • "Emory University," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 1, 2006: http://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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