Faculty Mentorship Network

The CFDE Faculty Mentorship Network aims to provide all Emory faculty confidential opportunities for support and conversation with colleagues, by providing access to multiple mentors. More than 180 Emory faculty from a wide range of schools and departments have volunteered to support their colleagues in areas such as teaching observations, guest lecturing, research, scholarship, university service, public scholarship, and general professional development.

Who May Use the Network?

Faculty at any stage of their careers are welcome to request access to a mentor from the list of volunteers. Mentoring is life-long: just as faculty mentor students and trainees at all levels, faculty at all levels can benefit from mentoring as well. Likewise, no one person can provide all of the mentoring expertise you may need: we are happy to connect you with multiple mentors on multiple topics.

To Find a Faculty Mentorship Network Member

To be connected to a mentor on a particular topic, please contact CFDE director Eric Weeks.

If you wish to be added to the mentor database, please fill out this brief form.

We can connect you with mentors to help with:

Teaching

Visiting your class to observe your teaching. Optionally, they can write a letter summarizing their observations suitable for inclusion in a teaching portfolio for promotion.
Advice on scholarship of teaching & learning / educational research.
Observe an excellent classroom teacher / general discussion about teaching
Engaged learning course design
Curriculum design & development

Research

Willing to read a manuscript draft / grant proposal draft
Substantive feedback on research to colleagues in the same/similar field (with a wide variety of fields represented in our database)
Help provide access to funding, publication, and other professional opportunities
Whether and how to seek literary representation (an agent)

Public Scholarship

Reading a draft of an op-ed column
Advice on working and talking with the media
Advice on writing trade books / public scholarship

Applying for fellowships

NSF, NIH grants
Alexander von Humboldt fellowship
American Institute of Indian Studies grants
Cottrell Scholar
Doris Duke Foundation
Dumbarton Oaks
Foundation Brocher fellowship
Fulbright
Getty Research Institute
Guggenheim fellowship
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton fellowship
Kress Foundational fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
New England Foundation for the Arts grants
Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study fellowship
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Wenner-Gren

General Career Advice

Balancing teaching, scholarship, and service
Balancing work and family life
Guidance to a newly promoted professor navigating this next stage of your career
Guidance to a newly promoted full professor
Career advice for lecture-track faculty
Providing a safe space for faculty in underrepresented groups