Emory University

Emory University is a private university in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory is considered one of the most prestigious large private universities.

Noted faculty

• Michael Bellesiles - former professor of history, resigned from the University after he was to be demoted for failures of scholarship in his book Arming America
• Geoffrey Bennington - preeminent scholar of Derrida, Lyotard, and deconstruction
• Merle Black - prominent commentator on United States national elections
• Jimmy Carter - distinguished professor
• Frans de Waal - primatologist
• Richard Ellmann - late Robert Woodruff Professor and preeminent James Joyce scholar, in whose name a lecture series was established and mostly recently given by Salman Rushdie; Seamus Heaney gave the inaugural lecture in 1988
• James W. Fowler - founder of "faith development theory"
• Sander Gilman - former president of the Modern Language Association
• Rodney J. Hunter - Professor of Pastoral Theology
• Deborah Lipstadt - historian; successfully defended a high-profile libel suit (David John Caldwell Irving vs. Penguin Books, Ltd. & Deborah Lipstadt) in the United Kingdom brought by David Irving, in which the judge determed the latter's works on Nazi Germany and the Shoah to be thoroughly compromised by antisemitism
• Jean-François Lyotard - late Robert Woodruff Professor of the Humanities and prominent French philosopher; Jacques Derrida's lecture in his memory, "Lyotard and Us", drew an audience of students and faculty of a size rivaled only by Bill Clinton's speech in Fall 1994, filling the largest lecture hall on campus and three overflow rooms connected by video (Clinton used the gymnasium, as is also the practice for President Carter's annual lecture)
• Sanjay Gupta - CNN senior medical correspondent, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Emory and Associate Chief of the Neurosurgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, White House Fellow