Overview
Since its founding by the Methodist Church in 1836, Emory has grown into a national teaching, research, and service center with an enrollment exceeding 11,000 students. The University comprises Emory College and Oxford College; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the Schools of Law, Business Administration, Theology, Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing; and the Office of Allied Health. Students in the Institute for Women's Studies may take courses in any department in the Graduate School and, by special arrangement, in other schools of Emory University.

Recent graduates have obtained tenure-track positions in Women's Studies and in traditional disciplines such as English. Alumnae are also currently serving in academic administrative appointments, working with nonprofit organizations, and serving as consultants to small business.

The Community
Emory is located on 600 wooded acres in a an attractive suburban area of Atlanta. With a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, Atlanta is the Southeastern center for business, banking, government, and transportation and offers outstanding cultural organizations, including a symphony, museums, theater, and major-league sports, in addition to the Carter Center and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change.

Programs of study and degree requirements
The Institute admits a small number of promising students whose focus of interest crosses departmental lines. In the belief that interdisciplinary work ideally builds upon a strong base in a single discipline, the Institute especially welcomes applicants who have master's degrees, applicants with a strong disciplinary background, as well as a background in feminist studies. The Institute is strongly committed to recruiting minority students.From its beginnings, the Emory Institute for Women's Studies has supported feminist teaching and scholarship on women and gender. It seeks to promote comparative and global perspectives using interdisciplinary methods grounded in traditional disciplines. However, students may train in a variety of subject areas and research methods.

The core faculty members have expertise in areas of women's studies connected to literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology, religion, political science, and philosophy. In addition to rigorous interdisciplinary course work and writing, students train in feminist pedagogies and receive opportunities to teach within the program.

The associated faculty members of Women's Studies represent most of the departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as well as other schools within Emory, including Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, English, Film Studies, History, the Institute of Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Spanish, and Public Health.

Students plan their individual curricula (including reading lists, examinations, and dissertation) with an adviser selected from the women's studies core or associated faculty. Prior to comprehensive examinations, students may be required to demonstrate competency in relevant languages and methods. The program requires four years of residence and a minimum of 60 hours of formal class credit. The program is completed by writing an interdisciplinary doctoral dissertation. Students are expected to complete the Ph.D. in five years.

Facilities & Resources
The seven library facilities of Emory University, the Robert W. Woodruff Library for Advanced Studies (which houses 2 million volumes and subscribes to approximately 4,000 journals), the Asa Griggs Candler Library, the James Samuel Guy Chemistry Library, the Pitts Theology Library, the Law Library, the Health Sciences Library, and the Oxford College Library, are all available for student research. Students also have direct access to the libraries of the other educational institutions in the Atlanta-Athens area, including the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Clark Atlanta University, and Agnes Scott College. The Emory Computer Center offers both hardware capabilities and software support. Students may also use the resources of the Carter Center, the Emory Ethics Center, the Emory Center for International Studies, and other facilities for interdisciplinary and comparative studies. The Rosalynn Carter Programs of the Institute provide additional opportunities for women's studies research.

Expenses and Aid
Full-time tuition for is $32,970. This fee covers tuition, the use of all facilities of instruction (laboratory fees may be extra), and library service. Students must also pay student activities, athletic, and computing fees of $176 per semester. Only students awarded fellowships (tuition and stipend) are admitted to the graduate program.

Financial Aid:
The Institute for Women's Studies awards up to six fellowships to first-year students on a competitive basis. These awards entail some teaching responsibilities during the first four years of the student's residence. A fifth year of aid is also available on a competitive basis through the Graduate School's TATTO (Teacher and Training Opportunity) Assistant Instructor Program. In addition, applicants to the program are eligible for Woodruff Fellowships and Emory Minority Graduate Fellowships.

Many faculty members employ research assistants, and numerous part-time jobs are available on campus. Some of these opportunities are awarded with scholarships and others are available when students enroll.

U.S. citizens and permanent residents may apply for need-based financial aid programs, including low-interest loans.

Housing/Living Expenses:
The current estimate of the average cost of living for a single student is $18,000. Campus housing is available through University Apartments, the community for graduate and family housing at Emory. There are also many apartment complexes and individual apartments for rent close to campus.

How to Apply
Students who wish to be considered for admission/financial aid must submit completed applications (including an official GRE General Test score report) to the Graduate School by January 10. Applicants to the Institute for Women's Studies must also submit a detailed statement of purpose describing their proposed program of study and a sample of scholarly writing approximately ten pages long. Finalists may be interviewed.

Deepika Bahri, Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., Bowling Green State, 1992. Postcolonial and multicultural studies, fiction, eighteenth-century studies.

Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor of German; Ph.D., Wisconsin–Madison, 1982. Twentieth-century literature and culture, women writers, film, critical and feminist theory.

Natasha Barnes, Assistant Professor of English; Ph.D., Michigan, 1995. Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture, African American literature and culture.

Edna Bay, Associate Professor in the ILA; Ph.D., Boston University, 1977. Women in Africa, African area studies.

Martine Watson Brownley, Goodrich C. White Professor of English; Ph.D., Harvard, 1975. Eighteenth-century literature, women's studies.

Rong Cai, Assistant Professor of Chinese; Ph.D., Washington (St. Louis), 1995. Twentieth-century Chinese literature, Chinese women writers, Chinese cinema.

María M. Carríon, Associate Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., Yale, 1990. Spanish Golden Age drama and prose, gender studies, comparative approaches to literature, Puerto Rican literature.

Cathy Caruth, Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Ph.D., Yale, 1988. English and German romanticism, trauma theory, psychoanalytic theory.

Sheila T. Cavanagh, Associate Professor of English; Ph.D., Brown, 1988. Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, literary criticism, feminist theory.

Amy V. D'Unger, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Ph.D., Duke, 1999. Juvenile delinquency, criminal careers, mental health, gender.

Nancy L. Eiesland, Assistant Professor of the Sociology of Religion; Ph.D., Emory, 1995. Gender and religion, women in American religion, religion and social change.

Wendy Farley, Associate Professor of Religion; Ph.D., Vanderbilt, 1988. Philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, philosophical ethics, Western religious thought, history of Christian thought, philosophical and systematic theology.

Robyn Fivush, Professor of Psychology; Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 1982. Cognitive development.

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Associate Professor of Religion; Ph.D., Wisconsin–Madison, 1984. Performance studies and folklore, women and religion, life history, geographic/linguistic focus–South Asia/Hindi.

Maria Victoria Garcia-Serrano, Assistant Professor of Spanish; Ph.D., Wisconsin–Madison, 1988. Twentieth-century Latin American literature.

Carole L. Hahn, Professor of Educational Studies; Ed.D., Indiana Bloomington, 1973. Social studies education, comparative education.

Jennifer S. Hirsch, Assistant Professor of International Health; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1998. Gender, sexuality, and reproductive health; migration; qualitative methods.

Mark D. Jordan, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1977. Same-sex relations and desires in Christian traditions, Catholic ethics of sex, queer theory.

Dalia Judovitz, Professor of French; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1976. Seventeenth-century French literature.

Bruce M. Knauft, Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., Michigan, 1983. Critical theory, cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality, evolution of violence, Melanesia.

Barbara G. Ladd, Associate Professor of English; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990. Post–Civil War and twentieth-century American literature, Southern literature.

Gary Laderman, Assistant Professor of Religion; Ph.D., California, Santa Barbara, 1994. History of religions in America, religion and culture.

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies; Ph.D., Brandeis, 1976. Modern Jewish studies.

Kristin Mann, Associate Professor of History; Ph.D., Stanford, 1977. African history.

James S. Meyer, Assistant Professor of Art History; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1995. Contemporary art and criticism, critical theory.

Cindy Patton, Associate Professor, ILA; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 1992. Lesbian and gay studies, critical theory, AIDS and politics.

Judith Rohrer, Associate Professor of Art History; Ph.D., Columbia, 1984. Modern architecture.

Susan M. Socolow, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History; Ph.D., Columbia, 1973. Latin American history.

Sharon Strocchia, Associate Professor of History; Ph.D., Berkeley, 1981. Italian Renaissance.

Allan E. Tullos, Associate Professor in the ILA; Ph.D., Yale, 1985. American studies, Southern studies, documentary film.

Emilie V. Siddle Walker, Associate Professor of Educational Studies; Ed.D., Harvard, 1988. Multicultural education.

Nagueyalti Warren, Adjunct Associate Professor of African-American and African Studies; Ph.D., Mississippi, 1985. Black literature with special emphasis on African, African-American, and Caribbean women's fiction.

Regina Werum, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Ph.D., Indiana, 1994. Sociology of education, race/ethnicity, gender, social stratification.

Dana White, Professor of Urban Studies of the ILA; Ph.D., George Washington, 1969. American urban and regional studies, oral history.

Patricia L. Whitten, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Ph.D., Harvard, 1982. Reproductive ecology, primate behavior, reproductive toxicology, steroid biochemistry.

Cynthia Willett, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., Penn State, 1988. Contemporary continental philosophy, ethics and social theory, race and gender studies.

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