List of Emory University people

This is a list of influential and newsworthy people affiliated with Emory University, a private university in Atlanta. The list includes professors, staff, graduates, and former students belonging to one of Emory's two undergraduate or seven graduate schools.

Alumni

Selected Emory people
Iconic golfer Bobby Jones (1929JD)
Baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell (1940C)
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and University Distinguished Professor
Salman Rushdie, iconic novelist and University Distinguished Professor
Kai Rysdall, an American radio journalist and the host of Marketplace

Pulitzer Prize

Presidents of academic institutions

Professors

Business

Film and television

Journalism and non-fiction writing

Literature and poetry

Music

Visual art

  • Julien Binford – painter
  • Jane Jackson (Davis) (BA 1979) – photography curator, former art dealer, founding director of The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, editor of Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection
  • Steven Newsome – arts administrator[61]

Other

Politics

Note: individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the most relevant section.

Heads of state

U.S. Vice Presidents

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and other prominent federal government officials

U.S. Governors and Lieutenant Governors

U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
State legislators and city officials

Mayors

Diplomats

Military

U.S. Supreme Court Justices
Federal and state judges

Attorneys

Activists

  • Larry Klayman (JD 1977[86]) – founder of Judicial Watch
  • Ralph E. Reed, Jr. (PhD[87]) – conservative political activist
  • Wendy Rosenberg-Nadel (BA 1982[88]) – launched Volunteer Emory, received Emory Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007
  • Yun Chi-ho (BA) – politician, educator; independence activist in Korea in the early 20th century

Religion

  • Daniel Glodener (BS in NBB 2019) The "Glodfather" spiritual advisor.

Bishops

Ministers and theologians

Medicine

Technology

Sports

Honorary degrees

Faculty

African American studies

Business

  • Narasimhan Jegadeesh – Dean's Distinguished University Chair in Finance at the Goizueta Business School
  • Benn Konsynski – George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Decision & Information Analysis at the Goizueta Business School
  • Paul Rubin – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law
  • Jagdish Sheth – Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School

History

Journalism

  • Hank Klibanoff – former Managing Editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, current journalism professor

Law

Literature

  • Geoffrey Bennington – literary critic and philosopher, expert on deconstruction
  • Cathy Caruth – literary critic and founder of trauma studies
  • Richard Ellmann – Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar
  • Mikhail Epstein – S.C. Dobbs Professor of cultural theory and Russian literature
  • Shoshana Felman – literary critic, commentator on psychoanalysis, and founder of trauma theory
  • Ha Jin – Chinese-American writer, former Professor of English at Emory; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Pulitzer Prize finalist
  • James H. Morey – Professor of English, expert in Middle English
  • Salman Rushdie – author and literary scholar
  • Avi Sharon – professor of classics, translator, consultant
  • Stephen Spender – artist in residence, mid-1980s
  • Natasha Trethewey – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, United States Poet Laureate 2012 and Robert W. Woodruff professor of English and Creative Writing

Philosophy

Political science

Medicine

  • Robert Wayne Alexander – chair of the medical school, 1999
  • Doug Bremner – Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, School of Medicine, author
  • Sanjay Gupta – Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory; CNN medical correspondent
  • Thomas R. Insel – neuroscientist; director of the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory 1994–1999; left to become director of the National Institute of Mental Health[120]
  • Melvin Konner – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Han Qide (韩启德) – Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress of China; previously with Emory School of medicine 1985–1987[121] and Woodruff Medal Winner in 2006
  • Barbara Rothbaum – psychologist and head of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory
  • Neil B. Shulman – Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, author, children's book writer, website and movie developer
  • Eric Sorscher – professor, Center for Cystic Fibrosis and Airways Disease Research

Music

  • Eric Nelson – Director of Choral Studies; conductor of Emory's 40-voice Concert Choir and its 180-voice University Chorus; 2004 recipient of "Crystal Apple" award for excellence in teaching at Emory

Science and technology

Sociology

Religion

Presidents of Emory

  1. Ignatius Alphonso Few, 1836–1839[122]
  2. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, 1840–1848
  3. George Foster Pierce, 1848 -1854
  4. Alexander Means, 1854–1855
  5. James R. Thomas, 1855–1867
  6. Luther M. Smith (1848C), 1867–1871
  7. Osborn L. Smith (1842C), 1871–1875
  8. Atticus Green Haygood (1859C), 1875–1884
  9. Isaac Stiles Hopkins (1859C), 1884–1888
  10. Warren Akin Candler (1875C), 1888–1898
  11. Charles E. Dowman (1873C), 1898–1902
  12. James Edward Dickey (1891C), 1902–1915
  13. Harvey Warren Cox, 1920–1942
  14. Goodrich C. White (1908C), 1942–1957
  15. S. Walter Martin, 1957–1962
  16. Sanford S. Atwood, 1963–1977
  17. James T. Laney, 1977–1993
  18. Billy E. Frye (1954G, 1956 Ph.D), 1993–1994
  19. William Chace, 1994–2003
  20. James W. Wagner, 2003–2016
  21. Claire E. Sterk, 2016–2020
  22. Gregory L. Fenves, 2020–present

References

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  • Young, James Harvey. "A Brief History of Emory University," in Emory College Catalog 2003–2005 (Atlanta: Emory University Office of University Publications, 2003), 9–15.

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