Our Team

Professor Allison's research and teaching focus on film, digital media, and video games. Her writing explores transmedia genres, emerging media technologies, and the intersections between analog and digital media.

Dr. Hoesterey   is currently leading a large research project on diplomacy, soft power, and the making of "moderate Islam."

Kenneth Carter teaches introductory courses in psychology and advanced courses in psychopathology and clinical psychopharmacology.

Because we all live in an era of climate change, Dr. Jo Guldi mostly thinks in terms of the history of land and water: who got evicted; who controlled the water; how land was mapped, owned, connected, and used, and what stories we tell about those displacements.

Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club Selection.

Emil’ Keme (aka Emilio del Valle Escalante) is an Indigenous K’iche’ Maya scholar from Iximulew (Land of Corn, and the K’iche’ name for Guatemala) whose teaching and research focus on contemporary Indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American-American literatures and cultures, and postcolonial and subaltern studies theory.

Lauren Klein also serves as director of the Emory Digital Humanities Lab and PI of the Mellon-funded Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network.

Dr. Roger S. Nam joined Candler after serving as dean and professor of biblical studies at Portland Seminary at George Fox University in Oregon. Nam focuses his research on the economies of the ancient Near East and the book of Ezra-Nehemiah.

Professor Crawford is an Associate Professor Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department at Emory University, Associated Faculty of the Emory History Department, Faculty of Emory's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, and 2021 recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award.