Robert A. Paul

Dean of Emory College, Faculty 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.

Cristine Levenduski

Senior Associate Dean of Faculty
cmleven@emory.edu
404-727-6059

Cristine Levenduski received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1989 and has held a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory since 1988. Prior to that, she was on the faculty of the Humanities Program at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota, where she also received a B.S. and M.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her primary research is in early American literature and culture, and her publications include Peculiar Power: A Quaker Woman Preacher in Eighteenth-Century America (Smithsonian, 1996). She teaches courses on early American literature, American Studies, material culture and popular culture.

Dean Levenduski joined the College office in 2002. As Senior Associate Dean of Faculty, she 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. She 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

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

Dean Brzinski serves as the faculty director of the pre-major advising system for Emory College students and manages Freshman Advising and Mentoring at Emory (F.A.M.E.), the fall program for entering first-year students. She currently administers certification of good standing, incompletes, and provides guidance for courtesy scholars, special students, and joint enrollees. Dean Brzinski also organizes the Senior Banquet. Her office works 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 and serves as a member of the Admissions Committee.

Priscilla Echols

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
pechols@emory.edu
404-727-1480

Dean Echols' responsibilities include management of probation and exclusion for the College, oversight of the Senior class which encompasses degree certification, degree audits for students including the design and build of an online degree audit and any academic issues arising for students in the senior year, development of student academic affairs technology services, and providing letters of good standing to students wishing to take classes at other institutions for no credit. In addition, she is the liaison to the the Registrar's office and the PeopleSoft student information system production team, works with the office of Admission in the assessment of AP and IB credits and credits from other institutions, and is the College representative on the Governance Committee for the PeopleSoft Student Administration System. Dean Echols teaches in the departments of Religion, Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, and Italian Studies. Her courses focus on the themes of apocalyptic literature, especially Dante's Divine Comedy.

Wendy Newby

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

Wendy Newby is a licensed psychologist and teacher who holds a Masters degree in special education and doctorate degree in school psychology. For most of her career, her work 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. This position was developed to expand the understanding among Emory University faculty of the educational needs of diverse learners, especially as these needs relate to undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students with learning and other disabilities. Dean Newby is in charge of issues related to the academic progress of students with disabilities and will serve as the College liaison between students and faculty in addressing academic issues that relate to these students.

Preetha Ram

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education

404-727-6040

Preetha Ram received her PhD in biophysical chemistry from Yale. As a researcher, she investigated protein-carbohydrate interactions at membrane surfaces using NMR spectroscopy. Her educational research includes the development of Problem Based Learning (PBL) pedagogies in K-16 classrooms. She has developed PBL curricula and web-based learning environments for undergraduate and pre-college chemistry courses. She initiated Emory’s ChemMentors program, which promotes peer-led team learning and has now grown into a college wide academic support program called Supplemental Instruction. She has been recognized by Emory College’s Excellence in Teaching Award for the Natural Sciences. She is currently working on developing innovative and interactive e-learning environments for science education.

Dean Ram is a strong advocate of study abroad for science students. She initiated Emory’s first summer science study abroad program in Siena, Italy. She founded the Science Experience Abroad program in collaboration with the Center for International Programs Abroad. This program was awarded the 2007 Andrew Heiskell Award given by the Institute of International Education. Together with Dean Brzinski, she runs the International Research Experience in Science (IRES) program that promotes research abroad for science majors. She is also a co-director of the Emory Tibet Science Initiative. ETSI programs seek to build bridges between western and eastern science through the development of science education for Tibetan monastics.

Dean Ram is responsible for undergraduate science initiatives at the Office for Undergraduate Education. She runs the INSPIRE (Interdisciplinary Science Programs to Integrate Research into Education) program that provides a research intense science experience. She oversees the Dual Degree program with Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, she is the dean for the freshman year, transfer students and college commencement.