Robert W. Woodruff Professor

The Robert W. Woodruff Professorships are endowed professorships at Emory University, named for philanthropist Robert W. Woodruff. The chairs are Emory University's "most distinguished academic appointments [...] reserved for world-class scholars who are not only proven leaders of their own fields of specialty but also ambitious bridge-builders across specialty disciplines."[1]

Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, was appointed as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts in 1996

List of Robert W. Woodruff Professors

Law
  • Harold J. Berman (1918–2007), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 1985)
  • Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2003)
  • Martha Fineman (born 1943), Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2004)
  • John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2016)

Other areas
  • Wole Soyinka, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts (appointed in September 1996)
  • Michael Davis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
  • Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
  • Reynaldo Martorell, Robert W Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition
  • Kenneth E. Thorpe, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy
  • Martin E. Marty, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University (2003–2004)
  • David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus in History.
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References
  1. Thomas C. Arthur and John Witte, Jr., "The Foundations of Law: Introduction", 54 Emory Law Journal, 1-375 (2005).
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