Research Catalog

Title

Where courageous inquiry leads : the emerging life of Emory University / Gary S. Hauk and Sally Wolff King, editors.

Publication

Altlanta, Georgia : Emory University, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hauk, Gary S.
• Wolff, Sally.

Description

x, 528 pages : illustrations, portraits; 26 cm

Subject

• Emory University > History
• Emory University
• Georgia > Atlanta
• Universities and colleges > Atlanta > History
• Universities and colleges > Faculty
• Universities and colleges

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"The spirits of this lawn" / John Stone -- "Emory are here": Emory as place and story / Marshall P. Duke -- "Dreams deferred": African Americans in the history of old Emory / Mark Auslander -- Lynching, academic freedom, and the old "New South": President Dickey and the "Sledd Affair" / Thomas H. Jackson Jr. -- National ambition, regional turmoil: the desegregation of Emory / Melissa F. Kean -- Putting Black blood and White blood on the same shelf: the integration of Grady Hospital / Jerry Gentry -- Lullwater and the greening of Emory: catalyst for a new environmental commitment / Nancy Seideman -- Shaped by a crucible experience: the Center for Women at Emory / Ali P. Crown, Jan Gleason -- Catching up: the advance of Emory since World War II / Nancy Diamond -- How it came to pass: oral history of a half-century in Emory Arts and Sciences: interviews / Billy Frye, David Minter, George Jones, David Bright, Steven Sanderson, Irwin Hyatt, Peter Dowell, Rosemary Magee -- Campus life: the interplay of living and learning at Emory / William H. Fox -- The School of Theology as prelude: Candler conversations / Manfred Hoffmann, William Mallard, Theodore Runyon, Theodore Weber -- African American Studies at Emory: a model for change / Delores P. Aldridge -- "Struck by theater-ideas": theater as a site and mode of inquiry at Emory University / Michael Evenden -- "If you build it, [they] will come": the birth and growth of Film Studies at Emory / David Cook -- Guy Revders Lyle and the birth of Emory's research libraries / Eric Nitschke, Marie Nitschke -- Emory Law and the formation of a university / Nat Gozansky -- Feminist activism and the origins of Women's Studies at Emory / Mary E. Odem, Candace Coffman -- Adventure as self-transcendence: the romance of Arthur Evans / Richard S. Ward, Maximilian Aue -- John Howett, art history, and cultural ferment at Emory / Catherine Howett Smith -- Lore Metzger: pioneer for women faculty / Ralph Freedman, Carole Hahn, Peter Dowell, Martine Brownley, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- "Athletics for all who wish to participate": the career of Thomas Edwin McDonough Sr. / Clyde Partin Sr. -- Richard A. Long: public scholarship across disciplines and institutions / Rudolph P. Byrd, Dana F. White -- A century of vitality: Patricia Collins Butler / Martha W. Fagan -- The Osler of the South: Stewart R. Roberts Sr. / Charles Stewart Roberts -- The classicist: Moses Hadas / Herbert W. Benario -- Emory historical minds and their impact / Gary S. Hauk -- The Charles Howard Candler Professorships / Gary S. Hauk, Sally Wolff King -- The biographer: Elizabeth Stevenson looked steadily at lives and life / Beth Dawkins Bassett -- Medievalist extraordinary: George Peddy Cuttino / Irwin T. Hyatt -- Remembering Floyd / William B. Dillingham, William Gruber -- A fortunate life: William B. Dillingham / Greg Johnson -- Russell Major: Candler Professor of Renaissance History / Alexis Victoria Hauk -- Richard Ellmann at Emory, 1976-1987 / Ronald Schuchard -- In praise of a legal polymath: Harold J. Berman, Emory's first Woodruff Professor of Law / John Witte Jr., Frank S. Alexander -- Emory and Methodism / Russell E. Richey -- Studying religion at Emory: continuing tradition, new directions / Paul B. Courtright -- Uniting "the pair so long disjoined": science and religion at Emory / Arri Eisen -- The case for law and religion / April L. Bogle -- The making of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center / Sylvia Wrobel -- Humans and other primates: Yerkes since 1979 / Frederick A. King, Stuart M. Zola -- A legacy of heart: the evolution of cardiology at Emory / J. Willis Hurst -- Pioneering in radiology: Heinz Stephen Weens / Perry Sprawls -- Partnering for health care in Tbilisi, Georgia / H. Kenneth Walker, Archil Undilashvili -- Looking back with Boisfeuillet Jones / Boisfeuillet Jones.

ISBN

• 9781450719247
• 1450719244

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries