Affiliated Graduate Faculty
# | Name | Title | Role | Disciplinary Training or Approach | Expertise |
1. | Associate Professor of WGSS | Reader, Course Instructor | Feminist Studies and Romance Studies | The disorienting effects of the queer and transgender past on politicized fields of scholarship | |
2. | Professor of Music | Reader, Course Instructor | Music Theory | Black music and race | |
3. | Charles Howard Candler Professor of History (Oxford College) | Reader | History | 20th-century Civil Rights in the U.S. South | |
4. | Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law (Law) | Reader, Course Instructor | Law | Federal tax law and critical race theory | |
5. | Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing | Reader, Course Instructor | Creative Writing | Creative writing, race, and African American literature | |
6. | Associate Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | West Central Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade, including the history of slavery; forced migration and labor; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora | |
7. | Assistant Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | Atlantic history; Cuba in world history; race; slavery and the law; the African diaspora; public history | |
8. | Jimmy Carter Professor and Chair of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | Political and cultural history of the 20th-century United States, and of the history of the American South since Reconstruction | |
9. | Professor of Theology and Ethics (Candler) | Reader | Theology | Caribbean and Black theologies, the history and development of plantation and Black churches, and theological method | |
10. | Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance | Reader, Course Instructor | Theatre Studies | Identity, culture, the body and illness | |
11. | James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership (Candler) | Reader | Ethics and Religion | Social ethics, psychology and African American religion | |
12. | Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture (Candler) | Reader | Anthropology | Anthropology of religion and the African American religious experience, the study of religion and media, religion and economics, and the sustainability of Black institutions in a “post-racial” world | |
13. | Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute | Reader, Course Instructor | Political Science | African American politics, particularly the politics of the post–Civil Rights generation of leadership, and political participation | |
14. | Associate Professor of History & Director of Jewish Studies | Reader, Course Instructor | History | American Jewish history and culture, modern Jewish history, American social and cultural history | |
15. | Associate Professor of American Religious History (Candler) | Reader | History | American religions as they relate to politics, wealth and poverty, race and ethnicity, the environment, and the modern rural South | |
16. | Professor of English | Reader, Course Instructor | English | Latinx Literature and Cultural Studies, American Literature, Transnational Feminisms, Latinx Studies, and Borderlands History after 1846 | |
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| Associate Professor (Nursing) | Reader | Nursing & Bioethics | Health disparities, social, and cultural factors that influence health, and the coping strategies used among older African American cancer survivors and their families |
18. | Associate Professor of Anthropology | Reader, Course Instructor | Anthropology | Public culture and history in West Africa and the African diaspora | |
19. | Assistant Professor of Anthropology | Reader, Course Instructor | Anthropology | Ethnographic work that explores Black social and cultural life in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mississippi Delta regions, focusing on how southern Black communities articulate insurgent modes of citizenship that demand the interruption of racial capitalism | |
20. | Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Creative Writing | Reader, Course Instructor | Creative Writing | Creative writing, race, and African American literature | |
21. | Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Reader, Course Instructor | Philosophy | Intersection of 20th century continental philosophy, the critical philosophy of race (particularly Black critical theory), contemporary critical theory, and the environmental humanities | |
22. | Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Law and the Humanities & Associate Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | American Studies, History | Intersections of American legal and cultural history, criminology, and literary studies | |
23. | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor & Director of the Halle Institute | Reader, Course Instructor | History | Modern Latin American history, focusing on ethnicity, immigration, and race, especially in Brazil | |
24. | Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Rollins) | Reader | Epidemiology | Health, psychology/psychosocial epidemiology, with an emphasis on cardiovascular health in African American women | |
25. | Professor of French & Italian | Reader, Course Instructor | French, Comparative Literature | Francophone and Anglophone literature, culture, theory, and aesthetics of the Americas (Greater Caribbean, U.S. South) | |
26. | Assistant Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | Slavery, capitalism, and the law in the 19th-century United States | |
27. | Associate Professor of Political Science | Reader, Course Instructor | Political Science | Urban politics; state and local politics; the politics of criminal punishment; governance and public policy processes; religion and politics; and African American politics | |
28. | Associate Professor in the Practice of Sociology of Religion and Culture; Director of Black Church Studies (Candler) | Reader | Sociology, Religion | Religion and culture, race, ethnicity and gender, cultural anthropology with a focus on ethnographic research, and ritual performances of religion | |
29. | Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies & Director of Production | Reader, Course Instructor | Film Studies | Criminalization of Black girls in schools, among other themes | |
30. | Associate Professor of Sociology | Reader, Course Instructor | Sociology | Quantitative approaches to racism studies; empirical links between the political economy of race and racial health and healthcare disparities using policing and housing policy data | |
31. | Associate Professor of WGSS | Reader, Course Instructor | Philosophy | Continental and political philosophy, legal and critical race theory and philosophy of race, post-colonial, theory, and subaltern and gender studies | |
32. | Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies | Reader, Course Instructor | Media Studies | Black presences in visual culture | |
33. | Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing and the Humanities (Nursing) | Reader | History | History of psychiatry, history of nursing, racism and civil rights in health care | |
34. | Assistant Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | 20th-century U.S. history, African American urban history, histories of crime and punishment, the carceral state, sport history, and histories of childhood and youth | |
35. | Assistant Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | United States in the Pacific World; Asian American History; Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; the Progressive Era | |
36. | Associate Professor of Philosophy (Oxford College) | Reader | Philosophy | Feminist philosophy, American pragmatism, and the philosophy of sport | |
37. | Professor and Co-Director of Emory Center for Digital Scholarship | Reader, Course Instructor | American Studies, History | Critical spatial theory, digital scholarship and publishing, American popular music, documentary forms, the U.S. South | |
38. | Professor of History | Reader, Course Instructor | History | African American history, history of the American South, History of the United States since Reconstruction, violence and extremism, historical memory | |
39. | Longstreet Professor of English | Reader, Course Instructor | English | Literary, cultural, philosophical and political discourses on Blackness and Black identity in the Anglophone, Francophone, and Germanophone African Diaspora, from the 18th to the 21st centuries | |
40. | Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy | Reader, Course Instructor | Philosophy | Critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, critical phenomenology (especially, on racial embodiment), and philosophy of the Black experience |