About Us
The Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA) is responsible for guiding and supporting the careers of a diverse and exceptional faculty at Emory across the complete faculty lifecycle: identifying and supporting best practices around ambitious faculty recruitment, maintaining a program for new faculty orientation, managing the processes around promotion and tenure, developing a robust program around faculty retention, and advocating for a culture that supports high-level research and scholarship.
Our team is charged with enhancing faculty success, recognizing faculty excellence, cultivating academic leadership, and defining, managing, and clarifying policies and processes related to faculty rights and responsibilities. The office aspires to be recognized for its unparalleled support of faculty eminence, community, and inclusivity at Emory.
Our Team
Giacomo Negro
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs | Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Management and Organization and associate dean for culture and community in Goizueta Business School
Giacomo Negro is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Emory University and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Management and Organization at Goizueta Business School, where he also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Sociology. In this role, he provides strategic oversight across the full arc of faculty life at Emory, from recruitment, development, and retention to promotion, tenure, and recognition, working closely with academic leaders, the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, and governance bodies including the University Senate and Faculty Council.
Dr. Negro brings nearly two decades of faculty leadership at Emory to this position. He previously served as President of the University Senate and Chair of the Faculty Council, supervising multiple committees and representing faculty perspectives on academic policy and institutional priorities. He has served as both Chair and Vice Chair of the Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee (TPAC), developing a cross-disciplinary understanding of faculty evaluation and promotion pathways across Emory's schools and colleges. At Goizueta, he served as Management & Organization Area Coordinator and Associate Dean for Culture and Community, where he designed a formal mentoring program for junior and newly hired faculty and helped build new governance structures to strengthen transparency and engagement. He is an active researcher whose interdisciplinary work spans management and sociology, currently supported by a National Science Foundation grant. He earned his laurea and PhD from Università L. Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
Joel Baumgart
Associate Vice Provost
Dr. Joel P. Baumgart is an Associate Vice Provost and was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania in 2015-16. Before his time abroad, Joel was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health and a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering.
In addition to his policy experience, Joel was a professor of anatomy and physiology at the W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars Institute at Princeton University, a New York Academy of Sciences Education Fellow, an Epilepsy Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Université de Montpellier, a visiting associate professor at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania, and a writer at the Core Knowledge Foundation.
Joel is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and was selected to the inaugural class of the New Voices at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He was the recipient of the Eric W. Lothman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Neuroscience, the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Sciences & Engineering and the Early Achievement Alumni Award from the University of Virginia, the Dr. Louis B. Fink Capstone Award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Zora Neale Hurston Thesis Award for the Social Sciences from Columbia University.
Joel has recently been awarded the MacVittie Emerging Leader Award from the American Association of University Administrators and was inducted into the Bouchet Society at Cornell University in 2012
Carol Flowers St. John
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Engagement
Carol Flowers St. John is Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Engagement and plays a key role in helping to shape the faculty experience at Emory. Her current portfolio includes managing the university tenure and promotion review process and decanal appointments; creating and delivering a range of strategic programming to enhance faculty development and engagement; and developing faculty policies, in collaboration with senior leadership, and making recommendations for modifications of administrative procedures.
Wesley Longhofer
Senior Director, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) | Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs | Associate Professor of Organization & Management
Wesley Longhofer is the Senior Director of Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence and Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. He is also an associate professor of organization and management in the Goizueta Business School. He previously served as the executive academic director of Goizueta's Business & Society Institute. Some of his published work on charitable organizations, environmental protection, and international law has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Nature Communications, Social Forces, Sociological Science, and Scientific Reports. Wes has received a number of awards for his teaching, including the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Marc F. Adler Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Tiffany Worboy
Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Tiffany Worboy is the Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, where she fosters faculty advancement by identifying prestigious awards, fellowships, and growth opportunities. With a career at Emory spanning more than two decades, Tiffany has held a range of strategic roles, including managing senior director of corporate and foundation relations, communications specialist for the Office of the University Secretary, and assistant director of the Pre-Health Mentoring Office. Tiffany joined Emory in 1999 as a doctoral student in Women’s Studies, establishing a deep connection to the university and its mission of academic excellence and community impact.
John Wang
Senior Program Coordinator
Shi "John" Wang is the Senior Program Coordinator in the Office of Faculty Affairs. John assists in planning, executing, and managing high-level faculty programs and strategic initiatives in partnership with Vice Provosts and the Office of the Provost's events team. He assists with the operational, logistical, and strategic components of faculty programs, leadership development initiatives, and special events that support faculty success and institutional priorities.
John joined Emory at the end of 2024 and brings seven years of higher education experience from Georgia State University, where he served in the Department of Respiratory Therapy. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Georgia State University.
Kristy Kiel Martyn
Director of Emeritus College | Professor of Nursing
Kristy Kiel Martyn, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the director of Emory University’s Emeritus College and Professor and Independence Chair in Nursing Education in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. She has many years of academic leadership at Emory (since 2013) and the University of Michigan (2007-2013), and more than 40 years of experience in academia. Martyn is a nursing education leader and Fulbright Scholar who led a Fulbright Research award with King’s College London, “UK and US Leadership of Nursing Education During a Pandemic,” and since then, has assisted the US-UK Fulbright Commission with engagement initiatives.
Martyn leads the Emeritus College in collaboration with the members by promoting intellectual and social engagement with the university and community. She teaches in the Nursing PhD program, researches the nursing workforce, and serves on the School of Nursing promotion and tenure committee. Martyn has served on the Faculty Council, Emory SACSCOC Reaccreditation Quality Enhancement Project, and for six years on the Tenure, Appointment, and Promotions Committee (TPAC). She is a fellow of the Woodruff Academic Leadership Program (WLA) and participated in the Emory Academic Leadership Program (ALP).
Janet Hoyte
Executive Administrative Assistant
Janet Hoyte is the Executive Administrative Assistant for the Office of Faculty Affairs at Emory University. In this role, she is responsible for supporting the Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs and managing the daily administrative operations for the department. Janet joined Emory in 2022 and has dedicated her career to leadership administrative support for higher education.
