The liberal arts draw students out of their narrow individual experiences into the wide world of ideas and historical precedent, define ethical standards, and teach critical and creative thinking. From a wealth of subjects including Shakespeare and Socrates, Korean and French, art history, religion, and comparative literature, students emerge from an Emory College education more human and more humane—more fully conscious—with the moral imagination to address society’s larger issues with clarity and compassion.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences attracts faculty whose work in race theory and in African American, women’s, and disability studies places them at the forefront of scholarship. The Transforming Community Project (TCP), an unflinching, ambitious examination of Emory’s racial history, brings together faculty, students, and staff of all backgrounds to study, deliberate, and strengthen the Emory community in unprecedented ways.
TCP co-founder Leslie Harris, a professor of history and African American studies, focuses her research on the history of pre-Civil War African Americans and their struggles to achieve freedom and racial equality. She brings to the project a national reputation and perspective, having served as an adviser to the New York Historical Society’s landmark exhibition on slavery in New York City.
Your gifts will help faculty and students build scholarship in areas such as race and difference, the arts, and the humanities, which extend across disciplines to create understanding of the human experience.
