Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts

Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts

Objectives: The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA) is Emory University's institutional center for comparative and interdisciplinary studies across the social sciences and humanities. The Institute is one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs in the United States. Since the 1950s, the ILA has offered graduate students the opportunity to pursue doctoral work in the study of culture and society from historical, ethnographic and comparative perspectives.

The ILA provides its students with a structured program of courses, workshops and seminars in writing, research design, social and cultural theory, interdisciplinary study, and public scholarship. At the same time, the program affords a great deal of flexibility in designing a course of study. We encourage independent and innovative scholarship while fostering a true intellectual community around our common concerns in the comparative and historical study of culture and society. Our shared practical and theoretical interests encompass examinations of such topics as: culture and power, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis, visual culture, the ethnography of everyday life, religion, ritual, and popular culture, cultural studies, area studies and cultural history.

Additional Information: The ILA has long-standing connections to many departments and programs at Emory, to other area universities, and to public and private institutions in Atlanta. Many faculty are affiliated with other departments and programs at Emory, including African Studies, African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, the Psychoanalytic Institute, Urban Studies, Southern Studies, and Women's Studies.


Application Information

Program Application Deadline:   January 3, 2008

Faculty: 14

Students: In residence 72; average in entering class 9 

Mailing Address:
Emory University
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
S415 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.
 
Telephone: +1 404.727.6381
Fax: +1 404.727.2370
Email: tblando@emory.edu