Release date: May 20, 2003
Contact: Nancy Seideman, Director, University Media Relations,
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Robert Paul Selected as Dean of Emory College


Emory University has selected Robert A. Paul as dean of Emory College and of the faculty of arts and sciences following a national search. Paul has been serving as interim dean since fall of 2001. Prior to that, he had been dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since fall of 2000.

"Bobby Paul will bring immense experience at Emory, considerable understanding of the intellectual life of the academy, seasoned wisdom and great dedication to his role at the university. I welcome him to his deanship, for I know he will honor it," says Emory President William M. Chace.

"He is a scholar of international reputation, one of the most dedicated servants of Emory University, and a person with a grand vision of what Emory can become," says Howard O. Hunter, interim provost. "It has been one of my great pleasures to know him for many years and to have worked with him as a fellow dean and as provost. I know that he will be a superb leader of Emory College."

Paul is no stranger to Emory; he has been on the faculty since 1977, and serves on the faculty of four departments or institutes at the university. Since 1986 he has been the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies. Paul also is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and holds a joint faculty appointment in anthropology and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. He is a past chairman of the latter two. He is an associate teaching analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, where he also holds the position of training and supervising analyst.

Paul's professional interests within anthropology include psychological anthropology, comparative religion, myth and ritual, and the ethnography of Nepal, Tibet, the Himalayas, and South and Central Asia. His extensive scholarly publications in these areas include "The Tibetan Symbolic World" (University of Chicago Press, 1982) and a special issue of Cultural Anthropology, "Biological and Cultural Anthropology at Emory University," which he edited. He served for many years as editor of ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and was president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology from 1992-1994.

After teaching appointments in anthropology at C.C.N.Y. and Queens College in the City University of New York, he came to Emory in 1977 as associate professor in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, where he served two separate terms as director. He helped establish Emory's anthropology department in 1979 and served as its first acting chairman.

In 1987, Paul began clinical training at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, located in the psychiatry department of Emory's School of Medicine. He graduated in 1992, was certified by the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1997, and maintains a private clinical practice. In 1997, he established Emory's widely recognized Psychoanalytic Studies Program and in 2000 received Emory's Crystal Apple Award, selected by students, for his graduate teaching in that program.

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.

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