Robert W. Woodruff Professor



The Robert W. Woodruff Professorships are endowed professorships at Emory University, named for philanthropist Robert W. Woodruff. The chairs are Emory University's "most distinguished academic appointments [...] reserved for world-class scholars who are not only proven leaders of their own fields of specialty but also ambitious bridge-builders across specialty disciplines." There have been 24 Woodruff Professors appointed since the 1982.

List of Robert W. Woodruff Professors

 * William Arrowsmith (1924–1992), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus if Classics and Comparative Literature (appointed in 1982)
 * Harold J. Berman (1918–2007), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of Law (appointed in 1985)
 * Don Browning, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (2003–2004)
 * Deborah Bruner, Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair in Nursing (appointed in 2011)
 * Michael Davis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
 * Richard Ellman (1918–1987), Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus (appointed in 1982)
 * David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus in History (appointed in 2005)
 * Shoshana Felman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French (appointed in 2004)
 * Martha Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2004)
 * Peng Jin, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics (appointed in 2019)
 * Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
 * Allan Levey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Neurology (appointed in 2021)
 * Edward S. Mocarski, Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus in Microbiology and Immunology (2006–2021)
 * Reynaldo Martorell, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition
 * Martin E. Marty, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University (2003–2004)
 * Ian A. McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology (appointed in 2019)
 * Michael J. Perry, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2003)
 * Wole Soyinka, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts (appointed in September 1996)
 * Vikas Sukhatme, Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Dean, Emory School of Medicine (appointed in 2017)
 * Kenneth E. Thorpe, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Health Policy (appointed in 1999)
 * Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology (1998–2000)
 * Natasha Trethewey, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing (departed role in 2017)
 * John Witte Jr., Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law (appointed in 2014)
 * Anant Madabhushi, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Biomedical Engineering (appointed in 2023)