Robert W. Woodruff Professor

The Robert W. Woodruff Professorships are endowed professorships at Emory University, named for philanthropist Robert W. Woodruff. 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." There have been 23 Woodruff Professors appointed since the 1982. [1]

Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, was appointed as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts in 1996

List of Robert W. Woodruff Professors
  • William Arrowsmith (1924-1992), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus if Classics and Comparative Literature (appointed in 1982)
  • Harold J. Berman (1918–2007), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of Law (appointed in 1985)
  • Don Browning, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (2003-2004)
  • Deborah Bruner, Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair in Nursing (appointed in 2011)
  • Michael Davis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Richard Ellman (1918-1987), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus (appointed in 1982)
  • David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus in History (appointed in 2005)
  • Shoshana Felman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French (appointed in 2004)
  • Martha Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2004)
  • Peng Jin, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics (appointed in 2019)
  • Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
  • Allan Levey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Neurology (appointed in 2021)
  • Edward S. Mocarski, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus in Microbiology and Immunology (2006 - 2021)
  • Reynaldo Martorell, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition
  • Martin E. Marty, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University (2003–2004)
  • Ian A. McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology (appointed in 2019)
  • Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2003)
  • Wole Soyinka, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts (appointed in September 1996)
  • Vikas Sukhatme, Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Dean, Emory School of Medicine (appointed in 2017)
  • Kenneth E. Thorpe, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy (appointed in 1999)
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology (1998 - 2000)
  • Natasha Trethewey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing (departed role in 2017)
  • John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2014)

References
  1. Thomas C. Arthur and John Witte, Jr., "The Foundations of Law: Introduction", 54 Emory Law Journal, 1-375 (2005).
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