Robert A. Paul

Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies
rpaul@emory.edu
404-727-6062

Robert A. Paul was educated at Harvard College ('63), where his field of concentration was history and literature, and at the University of Chicago, where he earned his M.A. in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1970 in the field of cultural anthropology. His 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 University in 1977 as associate professor in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts (I.L.A.), where he has now been a faculty member for twenty-four years. He helped establish Emory's Anthropology Department in 1979 and served as its first acting chair. He holds a joint appointment in that department. He has also served two separate terms as director of the I.L.A. In 1986, he was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

In 1987, Dean 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 and was certified by the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1997. He maintains a private clinical practice and holds an appointment as associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. In 1997, he established Emory's widely recognized Psychoanalytic Studies Program and, in 2000, received Emory's Crystal Apple Award 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.

In the fall of 2000, Robert A. Paul was selected, after a national search, to be dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Emory, and, in the spring of 2001, after an internal search, he was selected as interim dean of Emory College for a two-year term beginning in June 2001. After a national search, he was selected as dean of Emory College in May 2003.

Michael A. Elliott

Senior Associate Dean of Faculty
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404-727-6059

Michael A. Elliott received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University 1998, and began his career at Emory in that year. As the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in English and American Studies, his teaching and research interests range from nineteenth-century ethnography to contemporary practices of historical commemoration. His most recent book is Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007.

Dean Elliott joined the College office in 2010. As Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, he oversees the hiring process and the tenure and promotion process for faculty in the Arts and Sciences as well as faculty development initiatives in the College. He serves as the College office liaison to the College Faculty Council and to the College Affirmative Action Committee.

Patricia Bauer

Senior Associate Dean, Research
patricia.bauer@emory.edu
404-712-8460

Patricia Bauer received her Ph.D. from Miami University in 1985 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego from 1985 to 1989. She was on the faculty of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota from 1989 to 2005. After two years in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, she joined the faculty of Emory University in 2007. She serves as Senior Associate Dean for Research in Emory College, and is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology. Her research focuses on the development of memory from infancy through childhood, with special emphasis on the determinants of remembering and forgetting; and links between social, cognitive, and neural developments and age-related changes in autobiographical or personal memory.

Kim Loudermilk

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Planning
klouder@emory.edu
404-727-9517

Kim Loudermilk received her Ph.D. from Emory’s Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts in 1997 after completing an MA in women’s studies from Wichita State University and a BS in journalism from Oklahoma State University. She has held teaching posts at Emory and at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and she continues to teach courses in women’s studies and American studies. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature, feminist theory and the relationship between social movements and the media, which is the topic of her most recent publication, Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women’s Equality (Routledge, 2004). Prior to her 2003 appointment to Emory College, Dean Loudermilk was Assistant Vice Provost in the Office of the Provost, where she coordinated Emory’s reaccreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and directed the University’s faculty development programs.

As Senior Associate Dean for Academic Planning, Dean Loudermilk oversees the College’s strategic and academic planning efforts and serves as the College Office’s primary liaison to Development and University Relations. Working with her staff, Dean Loudermilk coordinates the financial, operational and infrastructure activities of the College.

Joanne Brzinski

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
poljb@emory.edu
404-727-6054

Joanne Brzinski oversees the Office for Undergraduate Education, which includes six class deans and numerous special programs: e.g., Academic Advising, Emory Scholars, National Scholarships and Fellowships, SIRE undergraduate research, Transient Study, Orientation, and Learning Programs. In her previous role as an associate dean, she co-coordinated FAME (Freshman Advising and Mentoring at Emory), the fall program for entering first-year students; administered certification of good standing and incompletes; provided guidance for courtesy scholars, special students, and joint enrollees; and organized the Senior Banquet. She also worked closely with candidates for national prestigious scholarships such as the Rhodes Scholarship, the British Marshall Scholarship, Fulbright Fellowships, the Luce Scholars Program, the Truman Scholarship, the Goldwater Scholarship, and Rotary Scholarships and Grants. Dean Brzinski teaches in the political science department.

Carolyn Denard

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
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Carolyn Denard received her BA in English from Jackson State University, her MAT in English from Indiana University, and her PhD in American Studies from Emory University, where she focused on twentieth century American history and literature. Before joining the Office for Undergraduate Education in Emory College of Arts and Sciences in August 2008, she was an Associate Dean of the College at Brown University.

Dean Denard serves as dean for the senior class and has responsibility for degree certification, as well as academic advising for seniors and students with special standing. She also serves on the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committees, as well as the ad hoc committee for the review of course evaluations for faculty.

Prior to her career in academic administration, Dean Denard taught twentieth century American literature at Georgia State University. She also co-chaired the Women Studies Program and served as a member of the Associate Faculty in African American Studies. Over the course of her teaching career, she received post-doctoral fellowships from the W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the Institute for Women’s Studies at Emory University, and the American Association of University Women. In 1993 Dean Denard was the founding organizer of the Toni Morrison Society, an official author society of the American Literature Association. She now serves as Board Chair of the Society.

Her research focuses on African American myth, ethics, and cultural tropes in Morrison’s fiction. She has contributed to critical anthologies and essay collections on Morrison’s work, and she is editor of What Moves at the Margin: Selected Non-Fiction by Toni Morrison and Toni Morrison: Conversations, a collection of interviews.

Priscilla Echols

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
pechols@emory.edu
404-727-1499

Dean Echols's responsibilities include management of retention, oversight of the sophomore and junior classes, administration—including the design and build—of online degree audits for students, development of student academic affairs technology services, and completion of transfer forms for students pursuing placement at other institutions. In addition, she is the liaison to the Office of the Registrar and the PeopleSoft student information system production team, works with Enrollment Management and the Admission and Scholarships Committee, and is the College representative on the Governance Committee for the PeopleSoft Student Administration System. Dean Echols’s interdisciplinary doctorate was in the fields of Literature and Religion. She teaches in the departments of Religion, Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and Italian Studies. Her courses focus on the theme of transformation as viewed through apocalyptic literature, especially Dante's Divine Comedy. She currently is working on a Master’s in Social Work to augment her understanding of human behavior in the social environment and eventually will be certified as a licensed clinical social worker.

Wendy Newby

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
wnewby@emory.edu
404-727-6766

Wendy Newby is a licensed psychologist whose career has been focused on understanding the interaction between learner characteristics, teaching practices, and instructional outcomes. Dean Newby came to Emory in the fall of 2000 to work with faculty as the Director of Faculty Resources for Inclusive Instruction, a position developed to expand the understanding among Emory University faculty of the educational needs of students with diverse learning characteristics. As dean, she directs the development and management of the Learning Programs division of the Office for Undergraduate Education, which provides a variety of academic support services to undergraduate students. Dean Newby acts as liaison between the College and the Office of Disabilities Services and works collaboratively with the newly formed Center for Faculty Development and Excellence as it builds programs to support faculty excellence in teaching and research.