Oxford College
Kenneth L. Anderson
Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Kenneth Anderson earned an M.A. (1989) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (1991) from Emory University. He joined the Oxford College faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1997, earning tenure in 2000 and serving as Associate Academic Dean since January 2006. His research interests include Sartre's theory of language and philosophical conceptions of childhood. At Oxford, where he has taught since 1991, Dr. Anderson received the COE Professor of the Year Award and the Sammy Clark Service Award, and in 2008, he received the Emory Williams Teaching Award, one of the university's highest honors bestowed on its faculty. He is currently treasurer of the North American Sartre Society.
William B. Cody
Ph.D., J.D., Professor of Political Science
William Cody earned an M.A. (1973) from the University of Georgia, a Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science from The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research in New York, and a J.D. from the Joseph Henry Lumpkin School of Law at the University of Georgia. From 1987-1988, he served as a law assistant to Judge George H. Carley of the Georgia Court of Appeals (now Justice Carley of the Georgia Supreme Court). He has been active in the Faculty Council and University Senate, including serving as President from 1997-1998, on the Emory University Honorary Degree Committee from 2003-2004, and as a current Faculty Council member. Dr. Cody teaches in the areas of history, social science, and political science at Emory at Oxford.
Gretchen Schulz
Ph.D., Professor of English
Gretchen Schulz earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. (1975) in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a second M.A. (Liberal Arts, 2000) from St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She joined the Oxford College faculty in 1978. She specializes in renaissance drama and has studied Shakespeare at Harvard University and at the Folger Institute (as one of 16 chosen for a Mellon-funded seminar on Shakespeare in an Age of Visual Culture). Dr. Schulz has devoted much time to advancing interdisciplinary teaching and learning on the Oxford campus, and played a role in creating and teaching two new interdisciplinary courses at Oxford, The Great Conversation: Culture and The Great Conversation: Society. She is a long-time Board member (and former Chair) of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company.
