Building on the Arts and Humanistic Inquiry initiative launched in 2023, the Office of the Provost designed AMPLIFY to expand and catalyze ambitious research and creative practice, build intellectual community, and increase Emory’s national leadership in publicly engaged scholarship.
The AMPLIFY program will:
- Fund impactful artistic, humanistic, and social science research
- Enhance competitiveness for external funding
- Expand opportunities for community engagement and public scholarship
- Strengthen cross-unit collaboration and mentorship
- Invest in the next generation of student researchers
- Support faculty from initial ideas to pilot data to publications, performances, exhibitions, or digital scholarship
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AMPLIFY awards funding to 20 arts, humanities, and social sciences projects
Emory University has awarded over $600,000 through the AMPLIFY program to support publicly engaged projects that address real-world challenges surrounding public policy, immigration, healthcare, climate justice and artificial intelligence.
AMPLIFY Awardees 2026
Impact Grants for Recently Tenured Faculty
Asian American Politics: Rethinking Power, Participation, and Voice in the 21st Century
Chris Suh, Associate Professor, History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Flood Time: Black Futurity and Disaster Redevelopment in Crisis Cities
Alix Chapman, Associate Professor, African American Studies, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Indebted City: Slavery, Debt, and the Popular Economy of Havana
Adriana Chira, Associate Professor, History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Island Imaginaries: A Documentary Development Project
Stacy-ann Robinson, Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Policing the Field: Black Athletes, Carceral Boundaries, and the Fight for Freedom in U.S. Sports
Carl Suddler, Associate Professor, History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Scaling Hereditary Cancer Screening in Rural Georgia through Community-Engaged Deliberation
Yue Guan, Associate Professor, Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences, Rollins School of Public Health
When Recommendations Become Advertising: Preserving Trust and Consumer Welfare in AI-Mediated Choice
Panagiotis Adamopoulos, Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management, Goizueta Business School
Events
AI and the Credibility of Empirical Research
Elena Pesavento, Professor, Economics, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Symposium of the Consortium for Health Humanities Academic Partnerships (CHAP)
In Partnership with the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation (JHR) and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS)
Sarah Blanton, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine
Jazz Meets Classics: A Genre-Blending Concert
William Ransom, Professor, Music (Piano), Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Founder and Artistic Director, Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta
Launch Convening: Sheth Fellows in Law & Religion
Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law, Emory Law
Making Modernity: Racial Capitalism and the Making of the Modern World
Karida Brown, Professor, Sociology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Our Stories, Our Strength: Transforming Gynecologic Cancer Survivorship Through Storytelling, Art, and Public Engagement
Lauren McCullough, Professor, Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Humanities Seminar Fellowships
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Music Festivals in Yugoslavia
Laura Emmery, Associate Professor, Music, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Reaching Across the Seas: African Students, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the Global Black Freedom Struggle
Crystal Sanders, Professor, African American Studies, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Shakespeare's Skincraft: Whiteness and Animality on Early Modern Stages
Patricia Cahill, Associate Professor, English, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
The Economic Problem of Scribes: Ritual, Exchange, and the Making of Writing on the Gaza Road
Roger Nam, Professor, Hebrew Bible, Candler School of Theology
The Rings of Saturn: Reconstructing Absence through Narrative Cinema, Scientific Imaging, and Historical Memory
Tanju Ozdemir, Assistant Professor, Film and Media, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
‘We Need a Hospital:’ The Building(s) of Ethnic Health in São Paulo, 1900 to the present
Jeffrey Lesser, Professor, History, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
When Millions of Bells Toll: How the World Remembers and Forgets COVID Deaths
Bin Xu, Professor, Sociology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
AMPLIFY Grant Details
The FY27 Request for Applications is now closed. Funding up to $40,000 per grant is available across three formats:
Designed for newly tenured faculty, AMPLIFY Impact Grants support ambitious field-shaping, publicly engaged projects in the social sciences, humanities, and creative disciplines, including interdisciplinary work, that are primed for public impact. Awardees are encouraged to engage students and consider pursuing external funding to advance the project.
AMPLIFY Events Grants support conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and other scholarly, artistic, and/or community-engaged events that elevate the social sciences, humanities, and creative disciplines, including interdisciplinary work. Priority is given to events engaging scholars, residents, and visitors of Georgia and/or those of national prominence. Awardees are encouraged to engage students and consider pursuing external funding to advance the project.
AMPLIFY Humanities Seminar Fellows will catalyze ambitious, field-shaping projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences while building community among scholars at Emory. Fellows pursue exploratory and foundational research and gather as a cohort five times during the academic year.
Following an August 2026 introductory session, fellows will participate in seminars in October, December, February, and April, presenting work-in-progress and receiving feedback from the cohort.