Emory recruits and retains renowned scholars who are as accomplished in the classroom as they are in the archive and research lab. Among the nation’s most profound voices in the sciences, arts, and professions, these academic leaders are teachers first, transforming the lives of Emory students in all disciplines.
As a biracial child in a small Southern town, Natasha Trethewey learned firsthand about intolerance. Insults followed her home from school; the Klan burned a cross on her lawn. At 19, she lost her mother to violence.
Trethewey coped with her grief through art, weaving personal experience and public history into Native Guard, an elegant book of poetry that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. A professor of English, Trethewey shares her passion for language and memory with Emory students, encouraging them to tell their own stories in the context of history.
Your investment in Emory will ensure that talented faculty members have the resources to shape tomorrow’s leaders, explore new ideas, and share their discoveries with the world.
