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ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Forefront

Nov 5: CFDE Course Design & Pedagogy Faculty Fellows Panel

On November 5 at 10 a.m. on Zoom, join in an engaging discussion on course design, pedagogy, and effective teaching strategies. The panel, titled Innovation & Reflection in Teaching & Learning, is a moderated Course Design & Pedagogy (CDP)/CREATE Faculty Fellows Panel that explores how some of the faculty that have completed the program engage in reflection, course (re)design, and innovation as part of their teaching and learning goals. Three faculty members will share what they have designed or redesigned as part of their Fellowship work, what they are currently working on, and what pedagogical strategies and practices they plan to implement moving forward.

The presentation includes a Q&A session with participants attending the panel. Since the Fellows represent a variety of disciplines and approaches to course design, pedagogy, and teaching effectiveness, we anticipate a dynamic and engaging discussion.

The Faculty Fellows Panel presents:  

  • Heather Boldt (director and teaching faculty, Laney Graduate School, English Language Support Program)
  • Andrea Fitzroy (assistant teaching professor of health equity, Emory College, Center for the Study of Human Health)
  • Laurie Ray (assistant clinical professor; director, Women's Health/Gender-Related Nurse Practitioner Specialty) 
  • Cecilia Gomez, moderator (CFDE & CDP/CREATE Fellowship Associate Director). 

This workshop is open to all faculty, graduate students, post docs, and staff. Please register by November 4. For more information and to register, please visit this webpage.

From Excellence to Eminence

National Academy of Medicine Elects Four Emory Researchers as 2025 Members

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has elected Mohammed K. Ali, co-director of the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center and the William H. Foege Distinguished Professor of Global Health; Stephen F. Traynelis, professor, Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology; Wanda Barfield, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics; and Ravi Thadhani, executive vice president for health affairs, to its 2025 class, consisting of 100 new members. Election to the National Academy of Medicine is considered one of the highest honors in health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

NAM elected 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting in Washington, DC. The newly elected members bring NAM’s total membership to more than 2,500, which includes more than 200 international members. New members are elected by current members through a process that recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.

Heard on Campus

The Tell-tale Signs of Authoritarian Populism 

As you can see, I’m talking about a special brand of populism, authoritarian populism, because not every populism is authoritarian. . . . Both the adjective and the noun in this “authoritarian populism” are equally important . . . so let us be a little bit more systematic in defining what we are talking about. What are characteristics of authoritarian populism today? I would like to say, to simplify the matter, that it’s a regime which blockades itself halfway between liberal democracy . . . and fully-fledged authoritarian government. They borrow from liberal democracy respectful elections which generate the government, but they also borrow from the fully-fledged authoritarianism disregard for checks and balances. . . . Imagine you came to power in a democratic way . . . , and you want to maintain your rule for as long as possible. . . . Put yourself in the shoes of a dishonest coach, say of football. And you want to do anything to make sure that your team wins. You would do three things: you would change the rules of the game . . . ; you would change the arbiter, you would put in your own umpire who would be biased toward you; and you weaken the opponents in any way you can. And that's exactly a nice metaphor for what authoritarian populists do when they come to power.  

-- Wojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney Law School), "How Authoritarian Populism Works," The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, "Democracy: Past, Present, Future." April 2 2025

Resources for Faculty

University Research Committee Request for Proposals 2026-2027 Funding Cycles

With support from the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research (SVPR), and in collaboration with the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the University Research Committee (URC) announces the annual Request for Proposals (RFP) for funding to be used during the 2026-27 cycle. The URC promotes rigorous and innovative scholarship in all academic disciplines to benefit the Emory community and beyond. The URC supports:

  • Early career faculty on their path toward research independence

  • More advanced faculty who wish to engage novel questions that enhance their expertise

  • Teams of faculty who seek to transcend the boundaries of their respective disciplines and undertake transformative research

Proposals will be accepted for the following six categories of research and scholarly activity:

  • Arts: Visual and Performing

  • Biological and Health Sciences

  • Humanities

  • Interdisciplinary

  • Mathematics and Natural Sciences

  • Social Sciences

To apply, applicants should search for Emory InfoReady URC Portal and ensure that application is made to the URC funding program most directly related to their proposed work.

Deadline for URC Proposals: January 17, 2026 11:59 p.m.

A URC Grants Informational Session will provide information on the University Research Committee (URC) grants and programs. Thursday November 6, 2025 12 p.m. via Zoom. To register, please visit this webpage.

For more information, please visit this webpage

New to the Faculty

Suchismita Dutta, Assistant Teaching Professor, Emory Writing Program

Suchismita Dutta (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Emory University Writing Program. Her teaching and research focus on representation and access in critical pedagogy, with additional expertise in multimodal pedagogies within Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) discourses.

Before joining Emory, Dutta was an assistant teaching professor of English and writing at the University of Tampa and served as a Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and assistant director of the Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech. She earned her PhD in English with a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from the University of Miami in 2021.

Her pedagogy emphasizes student-centered learning and the creation of intellectual communities that support students’ development as writers and critical thinkers. She has a strong record of forging interdisciplinary partnerships, including her role as a faculty partner in Georgia Tech’s Public Interest Technology for First-Year Engineers Project. There, she designed writing and communication courses that connected undergraduates with the Serve-Learn-Sustain initiative and local Atlanta-based community partners to explore sustainability, environmental racism, and community engagement. Her current research centers on using the city of Atlanta as a site for community-engaged and place-based writing. Dutta has presented her work at major conferences including CCCC, MLA, MELUS, and SAMLA. Her scholarship has appeared in Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, [Inter]Sections: The American Studies Journal, and other venues.

In recognition of her commitment to teaching diverse texts in inclusive, accessible classroom environments, she was selected as one of three emerging minority scholars for the 2020–21 Emerging Scholars Symposium at Boston University. Most recently, she received the 2025 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award for her paper, “Remixing Multimodality in WAC Discourses: Conversations in Technology and Community Engagement in the Writing Classroom.” Please email her directly if you’d like to collaborate on grants and other scholarly projects.

Events This Week

Monday, November 3                                  

At 11:30 a.m. at the Luce Center and on Zoom, the Emeritus College Lunch Colloquium presents Mel Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, who will give a talk titled "Believers: Faith in Human Nature." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon at the second floor of the Emory Bookstore, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Colloquium presents Carolyn Liebler, professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) who will give a talk titled "Mixed Heritage in the Family: Racial Identity, Spousal Choice, and Child-Rearing." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 1 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II room N600 and on Zoom, the Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines presents Irene Njuguna, research associate professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, who will speak on "The HIV Care Continuum in Children: successes, gaps and the future." For more information, please visit this webpage

At 1 p.m. on Zoom, the Department of Data and Decision Sciences Speaker Series presents Eric Auerbach (economics, Northwestern University), who will give a talk titled "Uniform Confidence Bands For Network Structure." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 4:30 p.m. at Tarbutton Hall room 106, the Institute of African Studies presents a Performance Workshop featuring Eva Doumbia, founder of La part du pauvre/Nana Triban theater company, recipient of the Grand Prix de Littérature dramatique 2021, and holder of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 6 p.m. at Cannon Chapel, C3, the Office of Student Life, La Mesa, and La Familia presents Entre Vida y Muerte: A Night of Music, Reflection, and Community. For more information, please visit this webpage.     

At 7 p.m. at the Emory Visual Arts Building and on Zoom, the Photography Speaks series presents Stephanie Dowda DeMer, Atlanta-based photographer and Emory Arts Fellow in Visual Arts. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Tuesday, November 4                               

At 9 a.m. on Zoom, the Library & Information Technology Services presents a webinar titled "Collaborative Assignments." For more information, please visit this webpage

At 10 a.m. on Zoom, Emory Human Resources presents a webinar titled "Career Development Conversations." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 10 a.m. on Zoom, the Academic Production Team presents a Video Production Team Drop-In. For more information, please visit this webpage

At 11 a.m. at the McDonough Plaza, Emory Dining and the Office of Sustainability Initiatives present the Emory Farmers Market. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 11:30 a.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building II, the Advanced Technology Development Center presents Office Hours. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 2:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Studio, the music, political science, Russian and East Asian languages and cultures, and sociology departments present a guest lecture featuring Iryna Tukova, associate professor of music theory, National Music Academy of Ukraine, who will give a talk titled "Art Music in Ukraine during Wartime as a Tool of Resistance." For more information, please visit this webpage.      

At 4 p.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building I Auditorium and on Zoom, the Children's Center for Immunity and Applied Genomics Seminar presents Eric Green, former director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Senior Consultant Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Department of Pediatrics, Emory Medicine, who will give a talk titled "From the Human Genome Project to the Realization of Genomic Medicine: Highlights from a ~35-Year Journey." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 5:30 p.m. at the Rich Memorial Building room 210, Arts at Emory presents The Restoration Project: Be the Main Character of Your Own Story, a recurring cabaret workshop series. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 7 p.m. at the Oxford Chapel, the Oxford Library presents Tamika Strong, president of theGeorgia Genealogical Society, Board Member of the Georgia Archives Institute, who will give a talk titled "Genealogy: discovering and preserving the personal past." For more information, please visit this webpage

Wednesday, November 5

At 10 a.m. on Zoom, Emory Human Resources presents a webinar titled "Career Development Conversations (Managers and Leaders Session)." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon online, the Emory Latinx Employee Resource Network presents Conversa & Aprende (Speak & Learn), a virtual session to practice Spanish. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 3 p.m. at the Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta News First presents Rebuilding Vaccine Confidence, a screening of Tragedy in Paradise and a panel discussion. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 5 p.m. at Spelman College Baldwin Burroughs Theatre, the Institute of African Studies presents An Evening with Eva Doumbia, founder of La part du pauvre/Nana Triban theater company, recipient of the Grand Prix de Littérature dramatique 2021, and holder of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. For more information, please visit this webpage

At 7 p.m. on Zoom, the Department of Economics presents the 8th Annual Alumni Professional Pathways Conversation. For more information, please visit this webpage

At 7 p.m. at the Emory Center for Ethics, the Emory Center for Ethics presents Meghan O'Rourke, New York Times bestselling author, who will give a talk titled "Beyond Diagnosis: The Ethics of Recognizing Invisible Illness." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 7:30 p.m. at White Hall room 208, Emory Cinematheque presents a screening of Night Moves. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Thursday, November 6

At 9 a.m. at the Health Sciences Research Building I Rollins Auditorium, the Center for Childhood Infections & Vaccines presents the 9th Annual Center for Childhood Infections & Vaccines Symposium. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 10:30 a.m. at Whitehead Auditorium and on Zoom, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology Igor Stojiljkovic, MD, PhD, Memorial Lecture presents David Hendrixson, professor, Department Of Microbiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, who will give a talk titled "Flagellar Motor Biogenesis in Polarly-Flagellated Bacterial Pathogens." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 11:30 a.m. at the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center room 1052, the Biology Seminar Series presents Will Ratcliff (Georgia Institute of Technology), who will give a talk titled "Exploring the origin of multicellularity in real time: what we've learned from 10,000 generations of laboratory evolution." For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 11:30 a.m. on Zoom, the Department of Biomedical Engineering presents Speed Networking: Inflammation. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon on Zoom, the Marcus Autism Center Series presents John P. Hegarty, clinical assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Stanford Clinical Neuroscience Lab, who will give a talk titled "Neuroimaging twin studies to identify genetic and environmental influences on the brain in autism spectrum disorder." For more information, please visit this webpage

At noon at Kemp Malone Library (Callaway N301), the English Department presents Anne Savarese, Princeton University Press, who will give a informational session on book publishing. For more information, please visit this webpage

At noon at Whitehead Auditorium, the Department of Biochemistry presents Bohdan Schneider (Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Region), who will give a talk titled "Tools for annotation and validation of nucleic acids at dnatco.datmos.org." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon on Zoom, the University Research Committee presents an Grant Informational Session. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At noon on Zoom, the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) presents a webinar titled "FSAP Overview of Programs and Services." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 4 p.m. at Anthropology room 206, the Institute of African Studies presents Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, associate professor, history, Howard University, who will give a talk titled "Imagine Loving Lagos?" featuring respondent Ololade Faniyi, PhD student, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more information, please visit this webpage.      

At 7 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Ackerman Hall, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies Annual Rothschild Lecture presents Laura Arnold Leibman (Princeton University), who will give a talk titled "Rethinking Jews and Race: A Multiracial Jewish Family in Early America." For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At 8 p.m. at the Emory Performing Arts Center, Music at Emory presents the Emory University Chamber Orchestra. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

Friday, November 7 

At 8:15 a.m. at the Convocation Hall room 208, the Arts and Humanities Inquiry Fund, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hightower Fund, Art History, English, Film and Media, History, and Philosophy presents Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium, with panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines running all day. To register, please visit this link

At 11 a.m. in Callaway N204 or via Zoom The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies presents Laura Arnold Liebman (Princeton University), who will deliver the Rothschild Lecture and Seminar: “The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution.” To register, visit this link.

At 11:30 a.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 561, the Institute of African Studies presents Kauna Malgwi, clinical psychologist and Nigerian labor organizer, who will give a talk titled "The Hidden Cost of AI: A Student Open Discussion." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 1 p.m. at Convocation Hall room 210, the Department of Religion presents a Book Launch Event celebrating  Gary Laderman,professor of religion, Emory, for his new book, Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life. To register, please visit this webpage

At 3:30 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 225, the Emory Climate Hub presents Bronwen Powell, professor, geography, African studies, and anthropology, Penn State, who will give a talk titled "Collard Greens in the Moroccan Oasis." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 4:30 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 290, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Program in Linguistics presents Karl Swinehart, associate professor of linguistics, Department of Comparative Humanities, University of Louisville, who will give a talk titled "A Difficult Language: Aymara Media, Linguistic Labor, and Urban Indigeneity in Bolivia." For more information, please visit this webpage

At 6:30 p.m. at the Emory Performing Arts Studio, the Billops-Hatch Artist & Influence Programming Series presents An Oral History Overview with artist Noah Jemisin and Halima Taha (Hammonds House Museum). For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 7:30 p.m. at the Oxford Chapel, the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta presents Vega Quartet featuring Edward Arron (cello). For more information, please visit this webpage

At 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Emerson Concert Hall, the Candler Concert Series presents Cameron Carpenter (organ). For more information, please visit this webpage.  

Saturday, November 8

At 10 a.m. at the Carlos Museum, the Carlos Museum presents Relaxed Mornings for anyone who would appreciate a calmer visit to the museum. For more information, please visit this webpage.     

At 10 a.m. at Oxford College, Emory Cares presents International Day of Service. For more information, please visit this webpage.

At 10 a.m. at the Emory Performing Arts Studio, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Master Class Series presents Edward Arron (cello). For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At 2 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Level One Galleries, the Carlos Museum presents Student Guide Tours: Insistent Presence. For more information, please visit this webpage.

Sunday, November 9   

At 2 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Rotunda, the Carlos Museum presents Sunday Public Tour, a drop-in docent-led tour. For more information, please visit this webpage

At 4 p.m. at the Schwartz Center Emerson Concert Hall, the  Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta Emerson Concert Series presents Edward Arron (cello) and the Vega Quartet. For more information, please visit this webpage.  

Monday, November 10

At 9:30 a.m. at Convocation Hall room 210, the Department of Accessibility Services presents Brandi Benton, director of Health Education, Center for Student Wellbeing, who will give a talk titled "Different, Not Deficient: Shifting the Way We See Disability." For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At 11 a.m. at the Goizueta Business School room W131, Emory First-Year Writing and Writing Across Emory presents "What Happened to Reading? A Workshop on College Readiness and Critical Reading Across the Curriculum." For more information, please visit this webpage.  

At noon at the Emory Bookstore second floor, the  James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Colloquium presents Joan Flores-Villalobos, associate professor of history, University of Southern California, who will give a talk titled "The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal." For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 1 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 561, the Department of Data and Decision Sciences Speaker Series presents Elliott Sober, distinguished professor of philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who will give a talk titled "Darwin's Reasoning About Common Ancestry." For more information, please visit this webpage.    

At 5:30 p.m. at the Oxford College Outdoor Classroom, Emory Oxford College presents Marium Khalid, writer, director, filmmaker and immersive experience artist, who will present an immersive theatrical experience. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

At 6:30 p.m. at the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences Building room 290, the Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents Justin Haynes (fiction). For more information, please visit this webpage

At 7:30 p.m. at the Carlos Museum Board Room, the Carlos Reads Book Club presents Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity. For more information, please visit this webpage.   

ThoughtWork: Emerging Knowledge and News in Emory's Intellectual Community

Monday, November 3, 2025, Volume 26, Issue 11

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