Humanities
The university celebrates the study and growth of the humanities through dedicated departments and programs and through institutional commitments to interdisciplinary research and teaching.
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry serves as a focal point for humanities endeavors at Emory and serves to advance research and teaching, overall, in the humanities.
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Artist Carrie Mae Weems visits Emory to 'think together the big questions'
April 17, 2019
Leading Chinese translator of 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett' comes to Emory
April 4, 2019
Mellon Foundation awards Emory $1.25 million grant for undergraduate humanities education
April 3, 2019
Emory professor, novelist Tayari Jones wins NAACP Image Award
April 1, 2019
'Framing Shadows' considers lives of African American domestic workers
March 12, 2019
Exploring how tiny tools made us human
March 12, 2019
Faculty, alumni works named finalists for notable book awards
Feb. 26, 2019
High Museum of Art, Emory receive $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation
Feb. 19, 2019
Scholar explores impact of bias in facial-recognition software
Feb. 19, 2019
Emory professors nominated for NAACP Image Awards
Feb. 14, 2019
Vanessa Siddle Walker to lecture about black education, civil rights
Jan. 31, 2019
Former inaugural poet Richard Blanco to give free reading at Emory
Jan. 29, 2019
Anderson's 'One Person, No Vote' named finalist for prestigious PEN America Literary Award
Jan. 29, 2019
Emory celebrates Founders Week with lectures, special events
Jan. 29, 2019
Promising poet: Emory senior wins national writing awards
Dec. 11, 2018
Researcher offers new look at how the Western won its way into modern law
Nov. 29, 2018
Emory professor T Cooper brings his 'Man Made' film to campus
Nov. 20, 2018
Renovated ancient Near Eastern art galleries open at Carlos Museum
Nov. 6, 2018
Talk focuses on Irish poet Seamus Heaney, teaching with archives
Nov. 6, 2018
Locate Samuel Beckett letters online in over 25 American literary archives
Nov. 5, 2018
Burkett to share stories of collecting Rose Library's African American materials
Oct. 16, 2018
'SisterWriters' Tayari Jones, Pearl Cleage share their literary friendship in Emory talk
Oct. 2, 2018
Emory professors named to 2018 National Book Awards longlists
Sep. 18, 2018
Emory project to provide wide access to influential American songbooks
Sep. 11, 2018
Authors Tayari Jones, Pearl Cleage at Emory to Discuss Mentorship, Writing
Sep. 10, 2018
NSF grant helps Emory sociologists study workplace leadership
Sep. 6, 2018
'Empress' details history of India's 'Queen of Queens'
Aug. 2, 2018
Spanish faculty member Lisa Dillman wins international translation award
July 22, 2018
Special feature: Science on stage
July 8, 2018
Summer reading: 10 books by Emory authors to add to your list
June 29, 2018
Emory librarians bring home books, insight from global buying trips
June 26, 2018
Wescoat to lead international seminars exploring ancient architecture
June 25, 2018
June: 10 things to do for $10 or less
June 5, 2018
Bestselling author T Cooper joins Emory faculty
June 5, 2018
Student researchers use library archives to reveal the Buddhist in the Beats
May 24, 2018
Class orator Mehul Bhagat: Innovation comes from optimism and risk
May 8, 2018
Undergraduate research explores the ethics of artificial intelligence
May 7, 2018
Through Coursera, Emory faculty reach broad audiences around the world
May 1, 2018
Emory College names new Koppaka Professor in Telugu, Indian Cultures
April 26, 2018
Crespino to discuss Atticus Finch biography, Harper Lee letters at Emory
April 26, 2018
Film 'Fran K.' gives Emory students experience from page to stage to screen
April 23, 2018
Author Tayari Jones joins Emory University faculty
April 16, 2018
Emory College course features new views of 'the city'
April 12, 2018
Anderson to deliver Distinguished Faculty Lecture
April 7, 2018
Emory faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
April 5, 2018
Emory class looks at fake archaeological stories to understand modern thinking
April 3, 2018
With new director, Emory's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry expands scholarship, programs
April 3, 2018
April: 10 things to do for $10 or less
April 2, 2018
Course examines African American literature and U.S. pop culture
March 29, 2018
Bridging medicine and literature through a pilgrimage to Faulkner's home
March 27, 2018
It's alive! From labs to libraries, theaters to theology, Frankenstein at 200 still sparks wonder and debate
March 22, 2018
Andrew Young, Ross Rossin to be featured in Emory conversation
March 19, 2018
Irish women poets to give readings this spring at Emory
March 12, 2018
March: 10 things to do for $10 or less
March 6, 2018
Remembering Raymond Danowski, who placed legendary poetry library at Emory
March 5, 2018
Emory acquires letters by author Harper Lee
Feb. 28, 2018
Mellon grant to Emory will help provide new insights on slave trade
Feb. 26, 2018
Emory acquires papers of Obama inaugural poet Richard Blanco
Feb. 21, 2018
Emory students turn curators for Carlos Museum exhibit
Feb. 20, 2018
Photos: Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
Feb. 20, 2018
'Divine Felines' exhibition showcases Egypt's exaltation of cats
Feb. 14, 2018
