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."[1]
List of Robert W. Woodruff Professors
Law
- Harold J. Berman (1918–2007), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 1985)
- Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2003)
- Martha Fineman (born 1943), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2004)
Other areas
- Wole Soyinka, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts (appointed in September 1996)
- Michael Davis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
- Reynaldo Martorell, Robert W Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition
- Kenneth E. Thorpe, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy
- Martin E. Marty, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University (2003–2004)
References
- ^ Thomas C. Arthur and John Witte, Jr., "The Foundations of Law: Introduction", 54 Emory Law Journal, 1-375 (2005).