Our Team

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

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.

Professor Goh is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject and his third monograph Living on after Failure is forthcoming with Duke University Press. His current research interests include World Literature, theorizing the Asian figure, and literary texts that problematize our relation with work.

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.

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

Tayari Jones is a New York Times best-selling author and has penned four novels, most recently An American Marriage. 

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 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.