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Spring 2009
Area Studies at Emory
Emory’s area studies programs are structurally and intellectually central to its vision of critical international studies. They provide unique curricular opportunities and advanced scholarly training for understanding major regions of the world. Place-based knowledge and deep understanding of specific societies, cultures, and nations in different world areas are key to informed comprehension of global issues. Regionally based understanding is also vital for understanding the causes, consequences, and best ways of ameliorating social problems, injustices, and conflicts.
At Emory, area studies programs include strong emphasis on culture, history, and language as well as the comparative and social scientific understanding of international trends, and developments. Scholarship in area studies proceeds through dedicated courses, research funding for students and faculty, study abroad opportunities, and formalized area studies programs with which a wide range of faculty from different disciplines affiliate.
Approximately 25% of the faculty members of Emory College are affiliated with one or another area studies program. Their “home” departments include history, languages, anthropology, religion, art history, political science, journalism, economics, public health, business, sociology, women’s studies, music, film studies, literature, and philosophy. Each area studies program is headed by a faculty director who serves a three-year term.
Area studies programs actively sponsor conferences, workshops, lectures, visiting speakers, symposia, films, exhibitions, performances, and community outreach related to their world area—adding a rich and visible dimension to international experiences for the Emory community and the public at large.
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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Russian and Eastern European Studies