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Dana
Greene ’71PhD has
been named dean and chief executive officer of Oxford College
effective July 19. She succeeds William
H. Murdy, who is retiring after leading Oxford for
twelve years. Greene has spent the past five years as associate
provost for faculty affairs at St. Mary’s College of
Maryland. During her administrative tenure, Greene also
has maintained her role as a professor in the school’s
history department, the first position she accepted after
graduating from Emory. “There is a tremendous love
for Oxford,” Greene says. “You have the immediacy
of the Oxford community around you and the additional resources
that the Atlanta campus provides. The potential is fabulous.”
School
of Law Dean Howard
O. “Woody” Hunter has agreed to
steward the school for a third five-year term. With the retirement
of Oxford College Dean William H. Murdy this summer, Hunter
is now the senior dean at Emory. Hunter joined the law school
faculty in 1976 and became dean in 1989. During his tenure,
he has overseen the addition of seventeen faculty members
and the formation of the school’s distance learning and
international programs, as well as the addition of the MacMillan
Law Library and the renovation of Gambrell Hall.
Claremont
School of Theology professor Mary
Elizabeth Moore has been named director of the
Candler School of Theology’s Program for Women in Theology
and Ministry. She also will serve as professor of religion
and education while overseeing Candler’s academic certificate
program. Moore is the author of Teaching from the Heart:
Theology and Educational Method and Ministering with
the Earth. A United Methodist Church deacon, Moore is
president of the Association of Professors and Researchers
in Religious Education and of the Association of Practical
Theology and is a board member of the Oxford Institute in
Methodist Theological Studies.
Hannah
McLaughlin ’97C, who majored in English and
creative writing with a second major in medieval studies at
Emory, has been awarded a 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
in Humanistic Studies. McLaughlin will use the prize to pursue
doctoral work this fall at Princeton University focusing on
anti-Semitic literature during the medieval era. McLaughlin
received Emory’s 1997 Lucius Lamar McMullan Award and
also received a Rotary fellowship for postgraduate research
at the University of York in England in 1998. During her junior
year at Emory, McLaughlin was one of twenty students nationwide
to receive a Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship for postgraduate
study. ”Hannah is a brilliant young woman in terms of
ability, but what really makes her stand out is how passionate
she is about learning,” says Associate Professor of English
Lynna Williams.
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