Asa Griggs Candler Professorship

The Asa Griggs Candler professorships help recruit and retain especially well-qualified senior faculty members at Emory. The provost and the dean of the candidate's school review and approve nominations. General revenues fund these highly regarded professorships.

Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company, offered $1 million in 1914 to help Emory College relocate to metropolitan Atlanta and be rechartered as Emory University. He chaired Emory's Board of Trustees for more than 30 years.

List of Recipients

NameSchoolExpertise
Ifeoma AjunwaiSchool of LawLaw
Margo BagleySchool of LawLaw
Patricia BauerEmory College of Arts and SciencesPsychology
Geoffrey BenningtonEmory College of Arts and SciencesModern French Thought
Lawrence M. BenvenisteGoizueta Business SchoolFinance
Mary Anne BobinskiSchool of LawLaw
In-koo ChoEmory College of Arts and SciencesEconomics
Vincent CornellEmory College of Arts and SciencesMiddle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Mingi DaiEmory College of Arts and SciencesChemistry
Huw DaviesEmory College of Arts and SciencesChemistry
Pearl DoweOxford College / Emory College of Arts and SciencesPolitical Science and African American Studies
Mary L. DudziakSchool of LawLaw
Marla F. FrederickCandler School of TheologyReligion
Matthew C. FreemanRolllins School of Public HealthEnvironmental Health
Xiao HuSchool of NursingNursing
Kristin JohnsonSchool of LawLaw
Robert KazanjianGoizueta Business SchoolOrganization & Management
David G. LynnEmory College of Arts and SciencesChemistry
Walter MelionEmory College of Arts and SciencesArt History
Polly PriceSchool of LawLaw
Karen SedatoleGoizueta Business SchoolAccounting
Holli SemetkoEmory College of Arts and SciencesPolitical Science
Kathryn M. YountRollins School of Public HealthGlobal Health
Shan Ping YuSchool of MedicineAnesthesiology