Emory Historian

As Emory prepares to host a major conference on slavery and the dispossession of Native American lands, I turn to Mark Auslander for this latest post on Emory history. Mark is a former faculty member at Oxford College and is now a research scholar in anthropology at Brandeis University and visiting associate professor at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst....

Mark Auslander’s further exploration of slavery in Emory’s earlier environs As Emory prepares to host a major conference on slavery and the dispossession of Native American lands, I turn to Mark Auslander for this latest post on Emory history. Mark is a former faculty memb…

"When the cultural pendulum eventually swings and campuses again resemble a 1970s Grateful Dead concert, Emory students will say that they have the most freakin’ awesome mascot ever. And they will be right.”

The Dooley Statue To the best of my recollection, this is how the the statue of Dooley came to Emory. The initial idea belonged to Lance Henry, an economics and music major who graduated from Emory College in 2007. …