Robert A. Paul
Dean Emory College Email: rpaul@emory.edu

Formerly dean of Emory’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bobby Paul agreed to serve as interim dean of Emory College in 2001, and was appointed as Dean of Emory College in 2003.

He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. He holds a joint faculty appointment in Anthropology and The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and is a past chair of both departments. He is an associate teaching analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, where he also holds the position of Training and Supervising Analyst. Specializing in the field of psychological anthropology, particularly the interrelations between psychoanalytic theory and anthropology, Dr. Paul is interested in the cross-cultural comparison of religion, ritual, and social organizations as well as in the ethnology of North and Central Asia and the Himalayas. He is also committed to the intellectual project of attempting to synthesize socio-cultural, biological, and psychological perspectives on humanity from a broadly comparative perspective. His book, Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud's Myth (Yale University press, 1996), received the Heinz Hartmann Award in Psychoanalysis, the L. Bryce Boyer Award in Psychological Anthropology, and the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish Thought.

Dr. Paul has served as editor of ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and as president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He is certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association as a psychoanalyst and maintains a private practice.