Our Team
Carla Freeman
Director
Goodrich C. White Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Mae Velloso-Lyons
Associate Director
Kaelyn McAdams
Senior Program Coordinator
Karl-Mary Akre
Communications and Outreach Coordinator
Percie Thompson
Program Coordinator
Shiv Datt Sharma
Teaching Assistant
2024-2025 FCHI Executive Committee
Tanine Allison
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
Arthur Blank NEH Chair in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
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.
Jim Hoesterey
Associate Professor of Religion
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Religion (2019-2022)
Dr. Hoesterey is currently leading a large research project on diplomacy, soft power, and the making of "moderate Islam."
Kenneth Carter
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Psychology, Oxford College
Director, Center for Public Scholarship
Kenneth Carter teaches introductory courses in psychology and advanced courses in psychopathology and clinical psychopharmacology.
Jo Guldi
Professor of Quantitative Theory and Methods
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
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing
Director, Creative Writing Program
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
Professor of English
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
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English
Director, Emory Digitial Humanities Lab
Lauren Klein also serves as director of the Emory Digital Humanities Lab and PI of the Mellon-funded Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network.
Roger S. Nam
Professor of Hebrew Bible
Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program
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.
Christina Crawford
Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History
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.
Chris Suh
Associate Professor of History
Professor Chris Suh is a historian of racial inequality specializing in Asian American history and US- Asia relations. During his time at Emory, Suh has won multiple awards for his research, teaching, and service.