Graduate School Alumni
Welcome to the Graduate School alumni webpage.
The Graduate School becomes greater through our connections with alumni. We want to hear about your accomplishments, and we want to help you stay connected to the Graduate School. We hope this webpage and others on our website will help keep you informed about the exciting work conducted by our students, faculty and alumni, and help you get involved in the great strides graduate education is making at Emory today.
To learn more about the accomplishments of Graduate School students and faculty, see our Making a Mark and Support Our Scholars web pages.
Alumni News
Smithsonian names Olga Viso (92G) Director of the Hirshhorn 
Museum and Sculpture Garden. Ms. Viso, who joined the curatorial department of the Hirshhorn in 1995 as assistant curator, is well known for her expertise in contemporary Latin American art and, by making it a fundamental part of the Hirshhorn’s global perspective, has introduced the work of Latino artists to new audiences through exhibitions, publications and lectures. She recently served on the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions—the committee that selected projects to represent the United States in international biennials—and served as co-commissioner for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale. Ms. Viso received her master's from Emory's Department of Art History.
Unsung Heroine Awards pay tribute to Emory women
A ceremony was held to celebrate the accomplishments of eight Emory women whose trailblazing ways have helped change the world for the better. Alumna Kim Miller ’88C ’89G, a CDC senior research sociologist in HIV/AIDS, was among those honored.
Gloria Wade Gayles, 81PhD, is the Eminent Scholar's Chair in Independent Scholarship and Service Learning at Spelman College. Dr. Gayles also serves as faculty mentor for Spelman's Independent Scholars program and is the founding director of the SIS Oral History Project, which tells the life stories of African American women mentors. Dr. Gayles received her PhD in African American Studies through Emory's Institute of the Liberal Arts.
Charles C. Haynes III, 85PhD, senior scholar and director at the First Amendment Center in Arlington, VA, was presented with the Emory Medal, Emory's highest alumni honor, during the university's annual Homecoming Weekend.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Han Wan-sang, 67PhD, was selected as the new president of the Korean National Red Cross (KNRC) on Dec. 1, 2004. Dr. Wan-sang received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University in 1967.
Sarah Brosnan, 04PhD, published groundbreaking research in primate responses to
inequity in the January 2005 Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. These findings expand on Brosnan’s previous fairness-related research in capuchin monkeys, published in Nature, September 2003. Dr. Brosnan, a former student in the Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Program of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, received her PhD from Emory in 2004. Currently she holds a pos-doctoral fellowship in the Anthropology Department at Emory.
Pamela Barnett, 96PhD, has been appointed Assistant Director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University. Dr. McGraw received her PhD from the Department of English, Emory University.
