Past Webinars and Workshops


The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence hosts numerous webinars and workshops throughout the year aimed at enhancing the teaching and learning experience. View our past collection of informative webinars. 

Emory/CFDE Experts Featured in National Webinars on Preparing Tenure and Promotion Materials

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Calls on Emory CFDE Expertise for Webinar Series

Multi-Week Course on Preparing Tenure & Promotion Materials  

Facilitated by

  • Eric Weeks, CFDE Director and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics, Emory College
  • Margaret “Molly” McGehee, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Director of the Oxford Center for Teaching and Scholarship, and Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Oxford College
  • Allison Adams, Associate Director for Research and Scholarship, CFDE


The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity invited three Emory experts to develop this course, which provides an overview of the best advice and approaches for putting together your dossier, regardless of your field or institution: how to tell the story of your research, show the impact of your work, make a case for your future work, write for the multiple readers of your statement, address possible perceived weaknesses, and more.

Through the Office of the Provost, Emory is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD). Access to the NCFDD services is available to all faculty, postdocs, and graduate students at Emory. To activate your membership, go to the faculty diversity website, search for Emory University, and sign in using your emory.edu email.

NEH Regional Grant Writing Workshop

September 24-25, 2020

Please visit this link for resource page that gathers the video recordings and slide decks of the webinars.

Writing and Scholarly Productivity During the Pandemic

Spring 2020

Now that Emory’s remote campus experience, social distancing, and staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually becoming the new normal, at least temporarily, you may be wondering whether and how your scholarly writing practice fits in. 

In this 15-minute webinar, we will make our way through a framework designed help you decide what is possible for your scholarly productivity in this time, given the new and unprecedented levels of distraction and anxiety that may interfere. Then we will discuss ways of, at minimum, staying connected to your writing work so that you don’t completely lose momentum, and at best, re-establishing your practice and habits in this extraordinary time. 

Fulbright Scholar Workshop

March 22, 2020
Presentation and Q&A 
Presenter: Peter Raucci, Outreach and Recruitment Specialist, Fulbright-IIE

The Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and The Halle Institute for Global Research partnered to host a day of information sessions for faculty interested in learning more about the Fulbright Scholars program and the applying process. 

View Resources for Applying

Share Your Scholarly Output and Increase its Impact

March 16, 2020
Increase the Impact of Your Work: How to Share Your Scholarly Output

Presenters:

  • Jody Bailey, Director, Office of Scholarly Communications, Woodruff Library
  • Eric Weeks, Director, CFDE, Dobbs Professor of Physics

This webinar provides a greater understanding of why sharing your work is beneficial and how academic social networks, institutional and discipline-specific repositories, and other sharing sites work. 

Clinical Research Boot Camp 

March 16, 2020

Presented by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and the School of Medicine Office of Faculty Development 

Clinical researchers from across Emory University participated in a full day workshop designed to provide participants with an in-depth overview of the major components involved in clinical research. The session included didactic lectures and small group breakouts. The main topics included:

  • Study Design
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Case Reports
  • Mentoring Trainees
  • Securing Funding
  • Manuscript Writing & Publishing

Talking to the Media About Science

October 4, 2017

A Public Scholarship Workshop for Faculty

Presented in partnership with the Rollins School of Public Health 

Two communications professionals skilled in media training for scientists and two scientists who have looked closely at how science is represented in the media provide advice for researchers speaking publicly about their work through the news.

View Recorded Workshop

An Introduction to Fulbright Scholar Grants for US Faculty and Professionals

February 15, 2017

Presenter: Andrew Reiss, Assistant Director of Outreach at the Institute of International Education

Attendees learned about opportunities to teach and conduct research abroad and get tips on preparing Fulbright grant applications.

View the Fulbright Scholar Powerpoint

Rewriting is the Essence of Writing 

September 23, 2015

Presenters: Allison Adams, associate director of the CFDE and an editor for 25 years, along with Hank Klibanoff, the James M. Cox Professor of Journalism, co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in history

This workshop focused on best practices and techniques for revising and editing your own work.  

Fulbright Workshops 

March 16, 2015

Presenter: Cate McCraw, a program officer with the Fulbright Scholar Program

Brief one-on-one meetings for faculty who have questions about the application process and a Fulbright alumni panel discussion. Attendees had the chance to learn about different teaching opportunities, conducting research abroad, and tips on preparing Fulbright grant applications. 

How to Build a Book Platform

November 14, 2014

Presented by Ken Carter (Psychology, Oxford College) and Megan McRainey (Media Relations)

Megan McRainey, from Emory Media Relations, provided helpful advice in dealing with  non-academic audiences, and Ken Carter shared his experience in building his book platform from scratch.

Watch the Video

Note: Use your Emory ID/password to access the video 

Copyright for Authors

Sept 9, 2014

Presented by Lisa A. Macklin, director of the Scholarly Communications Office in Woodruff Library

An overview of what every author should know about copyright law, from permissions to the "bundle" of rights afforded to authors over their own work to copyright transfer agreements from publishers. 

Meet the Agents

April 3-4, 2012

Presenters:  Jill Kneerim and David Patterson

An illuminating discussion on public scholarship and writing for a wider audience led by esteemed literary agents. 

Stories from the Op-Ed Front Lines

March 26, 2012

Presenters Drew Westen, Professor of Psychology; Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Hank Klibanoff, James M. Cox Professor of Journalism and Pulitzer Prize winner

The three presenters shared their experiences and advice as op-ed contributors in major national media outlets. The event is open to all faculty and graduate students. 

Scholarly Writing in the Digital Milieu 

March 17, 2014

Presented by Adeline Koh is director of the Digital Humanities Center and assistant professor of literature at Richard Stockton College

The benefits of using the digital milieu for scholarly communication have been cited, among myriad others, as democratization, widening participation, and engaging new audiences on a global level. 

Writing Book Proposals and Queries for Trade Presses and Agents

February 29, 2012

Presented by Nancy Seideman and Elaine Justice 

Co-sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and the Center for Women at Emory as the first in a series of follow-up sessions to the January Op-Ed Workshop, which aimed to increase the volume of women faculty voices in the public sphere. 

Writing Book Proposals and Queries for Trade Presses and Agents

February 9, 2012

Presented Elizabeth Gallu, associate director of the Author Development Program in the CFDE

Literary agents presented and individual meetings with faculty on the basics of book proposals. 

Grant Writing in the Humanities

January 31, 2014

Presented by Jason Rhody, a senior program officer in the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment of the Humanities; Yanna Yannakakis, associate professor of history, who has an impressive track record of securing grants; and Vincent Cornell, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies, who has served on multiple NEH review panels

Three panelists spoke individually one-on-one with faculty who might have an idea for a grant, or perhaps a proposal in progress, to give feedback and advice.