Emory College
Carol Anderson
Ph.D., Associate Professor of African American Studies
Carol Anderson earned a master's degree from Miami University (1983) and a Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University (1996). Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2009, she was Assistant Professor (1996-2003) and then Associate Professor (2003-2008) of History at the University of Missouri. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth-century African American history, human rights, colonialism and anti-colonialism. She is the author of Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge, 2003), which won the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including being named a fellow at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2005-2006).
Stefan Boettcher
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics
Stephan Boettcher earned a Diplom degree from Kiel University in Germany and a Ph.D. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis (1993), where his research focused on new perturbative techniques. He held postdoctoral positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma and was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the Department of Physics at Emory in 1998 as a lecturer and was appointed assistant professor in 2003. Dr. Boettcher is the author of numerous publications in the top peer reviewed journals in the physics field.
David Borthwick
Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
David Borthwick earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University (1993). From 1996 through 1997 he served as a National Science Fund Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Emory faculty in 1997 as an Assistant Professor, earning tenure in 2002. Dr. Borthwick's primary research interests include global and geometric analysis, differential geometry, mathematical physics, and scattering theory applications of microlocal analysis in symplectic topology. He is the author, among other highly regarded publications, of Spectral Theory of Infinite-Area Hyperbolic Surfaces, published by Birkhauser in 2007.
Patricia A. Brennan
Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
Patricia Brennan received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1986) and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Southern California (1992). A member of the Emory faculty since 1996, Dr. Brennan specializes in the study of aggression and violence. Her research explores the developmental trajectories of children born to depressed mothers from infancy through adulthood; prenatal and perinatal risks for childhood behavioral disorders; and stress reactivity and emotional processing in childhood and early adulthood. In addition to publishing widely on these topics, Dr. Brennan serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Huw M.L. Davies
Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Huw Davies received his Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia, England (1980). After a post-doctoral position at Princeton University, he joined the faculty at Wake Forest University, and in 1995 moved to the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the Emory faculty in August 2008 as Asa G. Candler Professor of Chemistry. His research seeks to develop new enantioselective synthetic methods, including the design of chiral catalysts, the development of new synthetic methodology, the total synthesis of biologically active natural products, and the development of chiral therapeutic agents. Dr. Davies has published over 190 articles in premier journals and holds 10 patents. He has received a number of awards, including the American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award (2005). In 2007 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Richard F. Doner
Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
Richard Doner earned a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1968), an M.A. from Stanford University (1973), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1987). He joined the Emory faculty in 1986 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. Dr. Doner's current research focuses on the political and institutional bases of Thai economic growth, comparative analyses of business associations in developing countries, flexible production in East Asia, and the political economy of the hard disk drive industry in East Asia. Dr. Doner teaches the politics of Southeast Asia, the international political economy, the politics of economic development, the politics of Japan, and cooperation. In 2005 he received the "Friends in Faculty Award," an Emory Campus Life Award of Service.
R. Brian Dyer
Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry
Brian Dyer comes to Emory having served as a Staff Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1987, where he also completed his post-doctoral training (1985-1986) after graduating with a Ph.D. in physical-inorganic chemistry from Duke University (1985). His research focuses on protein dynamics, structure and function, bioinorganic chemistry, and the chemical and biophysical applications of lasers and vibrational spectroscopy and imaging. Dr. Dyer's work has been published in highly-regarded peer-reviewed journals, most recently in Biochemistry (2007, 2004), Biophysiological Journal (2008, 2005), and Human Molecular Genetics (2006).
Michael A. Elliott
Ph.D., Professor of English
Michael Elliott is a graduate of Amherst College (1992) and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1998). He joined the Emory faculty in 1998, earning tenure in 2004. He specializes in the literature and culture of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to American cultures and the place of Native Americans in the United States. Dr. Elliott's most recent research revolves around questions of historical representation in the public spaces of the United States. He is the author, among other works, of Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Maisha T. Fisher
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educational Studies
Maisha Fisher earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) after teaching elementary and high school English. She subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University. She joined the Emory faculty in 2004 as an Assistant Professor. Currently she has a grant from the National Council of Teachers of English to study a theater company that works with incarcerated teens. In 2008, Dr. Fisher received the Early Career Research Award from Kappa Delta Pi/AERA Division K and the Early Career Achievement Award from the National Conference on Research on Language and Literacy (NCRLL). Her latest book is Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, an ethno-history of the historical predecessors of PLCs (Taylor & Francis, 2008).
Jason L. Francisco
M.F.A., Associate Professor of Visual Arts
Jason Francisco received his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University (1989), his M.A. in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1994), and his M.F.A. in Photography from Stanford University (1998). An acclaimed photographer, writer, and book artist, he works critically and creatively with photographs as documents, exploring problems of visualizing historical memory. He is the author, among other works, of Far From Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford, 2006). Professor Francisco comes to Emory from the Visual Arts Department at Rutgers University, where he was an associate professor. In previous years, he held a series of visiting positions at Stanford.
Lance H. Gunderson
Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Studies
Lance Gunderson earned a master's degree in Botany and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida. He served as founding chair of Emory's Department of Environmental Studies from 1999-2005. His research seeks to understand how ecosystem processes and structures interact across space and time scales and to explore how scientific understanding influences resource policy and management. In 2007, he was named a Beijer Fellow by the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. He has served as the executive director of the Resilience Network, Vice Chair of the Resilience Alliance, and Chair of the NAS National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density.
John T. Lysaker
Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
John Lysaker received his A.B. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Previously he was a faculty member at the University of Oregon, where he was promoted to professor in 2008. He joins the Emory faculty in Fall 2009. Dr. Lysaker is the author of three books, including Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self (Oxford, 2008, co-authored with P. Lysaker) and Emerson and Self-Culture (Indiana University Press, 2008). His articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, New German Critique, and elsewhere. Currently he is Vice President of the International Society for Dialogical Science and is completing a three-year term on the executive board of The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
Esfandiar Maasoumi
Ph.D., Professor of Economics
Esfandiar (Essie) Maasoumi, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics at Emory University, holds B.Sc, M.Sc., and Ph.D. (1977) degrees from the London School of Economics. He comes to Emory in Fall 2009 from Southern Methodist University, where he has held the Robert and Nancy Dedman Professorship since 1989. An international expert in econometrics, welfare economics, Stochastic Dominance, inequality, mobility, and poverty, among other fields, Dr. Maasoumi has authored over 100 publications, including special issues of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Reviews. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and the Journal of Econometrics, and a member of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Mathematical Society. Dr. Maasoumi serves on the board of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Donna L. Maney
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology
Donna L. Maney earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from the University of Washington (1997). She held a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral neuroendocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University and then joined the Emory faculty in 2003. Her research focuses on the neuroendocrine and genetic mechanisms affecting the social behavior of song birds. She has published widely, including in Genetics (2008), Endocrinology (2008, 2007, 1999), and Brain Research (2007); and she is a contributor to The Design of Animal Communication (2003) and Reproduction in Context: Social and Environmental Influences on Reproduction (1999), both published by MIT Press. Dr. Maney received a 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a 2004 NSF Early Career Development award.
Sara J. Markowitz
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics
Sara Markowitz earned her B.A. (cum laude) from Rutgers University (1993) and her Ph.D. in Economics from CUNY, Graduate and University Center (1998). She joined the Emory faculty in 2008 after serving as an associate professor of economics at Rutgers University, Newark campus. Dr. Markowitz's specialty is applied microeconomics and health economics, particularly economic analyses of healthy and unhealthy behaviors. She is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served as the Principal Investigator for grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2001-2003, 2003-2005) and the National Institutes of Health (2007-2009). Dr. Markowitz is the recipient of the Second Adam Smith Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research and has been featured in Who's Who in the Social Sciences since 2004.
James H. Morey
Ph.D., Professor of English
James Morey came to Emory University in 1994 after earning an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990) from Cornell University, holding a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland (1987-88), and serving four years as an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech. He was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor at Emory in 1998. Currently he is working on an edition of the Middle English penitential poem The Prick of Conscience as well as on a miscellany of Middle English biblical literature. In 2000, he published Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature. Dr. Morey teaches courses in Old and Middle English, and his medieval interests extend from Old French and Old Norse literature to the Renaissance, with a concentration on religious literature and the vernacular Bible. He is also a core faculty member in the Linguistics Program.
Vincent P. Murphy
B.S., Professor of Theatre Studies
Vincent (Vinnie) Murphy joined the Emory faculty in 1989 as an untenured associate professor and Artistic Director of Theatre Emory. Prior to this he held faculty appointments at Tufts, Simon Fraser, the University of Massachusetts, Emerson College, and the University of Ottawa. He received tenure at Emory in 1997. A 1972 graduate of Boston University, he has collaborated on more than 200 theater productions across the United States, Canada, Europe, and throughout South America. Under his tutelage as Artistic Producing Director, Theater Emory presents professional and student productions in a unique intensive and collaborative environment. Professor Murphy is the founder of the groundbreaking "Theater Works Company" in Boston. In addition, he has received over 35 "Best Play of the Year" awards, as well as the Emory Crystal Apple award for excellence in teaching in the humanities.
Michael L. Owens
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science
Michael Leo Owens earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany (2001) and accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Emory's Office of University and Community Partnerships. In 2003 he moved to the tenure track as Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching areas include governance and public policy, urban politics, religion and politics, and African American politics. Dr. Owens is the author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He is a recipient of the Urban Affairs Association's Young Scholar Award and a Ford Foundation Minority Fellowship. Dr. Owens is currently an associate of Emory's Office of University-Community Partnerships and of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, as well as a board member of the National Housing Institute.
Christine G. Perkell
Ph.D., Professor of Classics
Christine Perkell earned a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University (1977) and joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor the same year. She received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983. She joined the Emory faculty in 1990 as a tenured Associate Professor; for her first decade at Emory she held a half-time appointment. Her special interests include epic poetry, Greek and Latin literature, and linguistics. She has received a number of recognitions and honors, including being named a Durant Scholar and a Wellesley College Scholar. Dr. Perkell teaches in the areas of Greek and Latin literature, classical civilization, and the classical tradition in the humanities. From 2003-2006, she served on the Classical Association of the Middle West and South program committee.
Mark Ravina
Ph.D., Professor of History
Mark Ravina earned an M.A. (1988) and a Ph.D. in History (1991) from Stanford University and joined the Emory faculty in the same year as an Assistant Professor, with affiliated faculty status in what is now the East Asian Studies Program. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997. He specializes in Japanese history, especially eighteenth- and nineteenth-century politics. His broader methodological interests lie in the transnational and international dimensions of state-building. Recently he has begun to explore the idea of a transnational history, emphasizing interactions between nations and cultures. His first book, Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, was re-published in Japanese translation as Meikun no satetsu. From 2006-2007, Dr. Ravina served as a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow. He is currently Director of the East Asian Studies Program.
Benjamin Reiss
Ph.D., Professor of English
Benjamin Reiss earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1997) and joined the faculty at Tulane University as an Assistant Professor, earning tenure in 2004. He joined the Emory faculty in 2006 as an Associate Professor. He specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with strong interests in popular culture, medicine, race, disability, and environmental issues. In 2008, he published Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Dr. Reiss is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Louisiana Board of Regents. He teaches courses on traditional literary periods as well as courses that blend literary analysis with cultural studies, social history, and the history of medicine and disability. Dr. Reiss is currently Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English.
James K. Rilling
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology
James Rilling earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University (1998) and went on to a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral joined the Emory faculty in 2003. He uses functional neuroimaging techniques to explore the neurobiological bases of human and non-human primate social cognition. He also employs functional neuroimaging techniques to compare human and non-human primate brain anatomy and function in order to identify human brain specializations and shed light on human brain evolution. Dr. Rilling teaches courses on the Evolution of Human Brain and Mind, Human Biology: A Life Cycle Approach, Foundation of Behavior, and Human Social Neuroscience. He holds an additional appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Deboleena Roy
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
Deboleena Roy received an M. Sc. from McMaster University (1996) and a Ph.D. in reproductive neuroendocrinology from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto (2001). After a one-year visiting position at Brown University, she joined the faculty of San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor; she was granted tenure in 2008. She joins the Emory faculty in Fall 2009. Dr. Roy studies feminist theory in science. Her work seeks to bridge feminist critiques of science with transformations in the processes of scientific knowledge production. Dr. Roy's teaching integrates biology and women's studies and addresses gender, race, and class in science education. She has published in journals such as Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Australian Feminist Studies; Endocrinology; and Journal of Biological Chemistry. She is currently working on a manuscript, Mapping Gender, Hormones, and Neurons: Feminist Configurations in the Neurosciences
Marina Rustow
Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Marina Rustow earned her Ph.D. with distinction from Columbia University (2004). She joined the Emory faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2003. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern Jewish history; Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the medieval Near East; heresy and sectarianism; and the Cairo Geniza, a storeroom for discarded papers found in a medieval synagogue. Holding a joint appointment in History and Jewish studies, Dr. Rustow is the author of several articles in first-tier peer reviewed journals, as well as Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate (Cornell University Press, 2008); and Scripture and Schism: Samaritan and Karaite Treasures from the Jewish Theological Seminary Library (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2000).
Caroline Schaumann
Ph.D., Associate Professor of German Studies
Caroline Schaumann earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (1999). Before joining the Emory faculty in 2002, she served as a visiting assistant professor at Middlebury College. Dr. Schaumann's research covers post-War and post-Wall German literature and culture, German-Jewish literature, exploration and mountaineering literature and film, representations of the Holocaust, and language pedagogy. She received the Max Hayman Endowment Fellowship in 1998 and a travel grant from the Emory University Institute for Comparative and International Studies in 2005. She is the author of Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany's Nazi Past in Recent Women's Literature (Walter de Gruyter, 2008) and a contributor to Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic (Camden House 2008).
Pamela Scully
Ph.D., Professor of Women's Studies and African Studies
Pamela Scully earned an M.A. from the University of Cape Town (1987) and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan (1993). Her first academic appointment was a half-time position at Kenyon College. She moved to Denison University in 1999 as Assistant Professor of History, earning tenure in 2004; she joined the Emory faculty the same year as a Visiting Associate Professor. In 2006 she was granted tenure. Her research focuses comparative women's and gender history, with an emphasis on slavery and emancipation. Dr. Scully teaches courses on gender, violence and genocide, post-colonial feminist theory, and feminist approaches to international human rights. She is the Director of Emory's Institute of African Studies and serves on the executive committee of the Institute for Developing Nations, a partnership between Emory and The Carter Center.
Don Seeman
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies
Don Seeman received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University (1997) and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (1997-1998). Prior to joining the Emory faculty in 2003, he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a joint appointment in Jewish Ethnography with the Department of Religion and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. Dr. Seeman's research covers medical anthropology, Ethiopian Israelis, anthropological approaches to the Hebrew Bible, and violence and extremism in Israel. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Religion in Africa, and elsewhere; and he is the author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism (Rutgers, 2009).
Sharon T. Strocchia
Ph.D., Professor of History
Sharon Strocchia earned an M.A. (1973) and a Ph.D. (1981) in History from the University of California, Berkeley and joined the Emory faculty in 1988 as an Assistant Professor, earning tenure in 1992. She specializes in the social and cultural histories of Renaissance Italy, with a focus on women and religion in fifteenth-century Florence; gender and sexuality in early modern Europe; and social history of medicine in premodern Europe. Her most recent book is Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). In 2008, she received the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Literature Prize for Best Literature Article. Dr. Strocchia served as the President of Emory's University Senate and the Chair of Faculty Council from 2004-2005.
Elizabeth A. Wilson
Ph.D., Professor of Women's Studies
Elizabeth Wilson earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Sydney in Australia (1994). She taught women's studies at the University of Western Sydney and other institutions before joining the faculty of the University of New South Wales at a rank equivalent to associate professor, which she held for five years before joining the Emory faculty in 2008. Her research explores how biology, particularly the neurosciences, might be used to break new ground for feminist and queer theory. Currently she is researching the conjunctions between pharmaceutical theories of depression, biomedical data about the gut, and feminist theories of the body ("Gut Feminism"). Dr. Wilson also teaches the science of sexuality and gender, the gender politics of mental illness, and feminist theory. She is the author, among other publications, of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge 1998) and Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (Duke 2004).
