Robert W. Woodruff Professor
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Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
, named for philanthropist Robert W. Woodruff
Robert W. Woodruff
Robert Winship Woodruff was the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954. With his enormous Coke fortune, he was also a major philanthropist, and many educational and cultural landmarks in the U.S...
. The chairs are Emory University's "most distinguished academic appointments [...] reserved for world-class scholars who are not only proven leaders of their own fields of specialty but also ambitious bridge-builders across specialty disciplines."
Law
- Harold J. BermanHarold J. BermanHarold J. Berman was an American legal scholar who was an expert in comparative, international and Soviet/Russian law as well as legal history, philosophy of law and the intersection of law and religion...
(1918–2007), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 1985) - Michael J. PerryMichael J. PerryMichael J. Perry is an American legal scholar, specializing in constitutional law, law and religion, law and morality, and human rights. In 2003, he was appointed as Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, the second person to be appointed to such a chair after Harold J...
, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2003) - Martha FinemanMartha FinemanMartha Albertson Fineman is an internationally renowned law and society scholar and a leading authority in feminist legal theory and family law. She is currently Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, having formerly held the Dorothea S. Clarke Professorship of...
(born 1943), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2004)
Other areas
- Wole SoyinkaWole SoyinkaAkinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts (appointed in September 1996) - Michael DavisMichael DavisMichael Davis may refer to:* Michael Davis , bass guitarist, singer, songwriter and music producer* Michael Davis , film director, writer, producer...
, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Luke Timothy JohnsonLuke Timothy JohnsonLuke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University...
, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins - Reynaldo MartorellReynaldo MartorellReynaldo Martorell is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition at Emory University. He was formerly was on faculty at Cornell University and Stanford University...
, Robert W Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition - Kenneth E. ThorpeKenneth E. ThorpeKenneth E. Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy at Emory University, the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Rollins School of Public Health, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services...
, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy - Martin E. MartyMartin E. MartyMartin Emil Marty is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on 19th century and 20th century American religion. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956, and served as a Lutheran pastor from 1952 to 1962 in the suburbs of Chicago...
, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University (2003–2004)