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Commencement Two Thousand Twenty Emory University The One Hundred Seventy-fifth Commencement The Eleventh of May Two Thousand Twenty The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Where the sun doth shine, That is where our hearts are turning A Commentary on Commencement ......................................... 2 ’Round old Emory’s shrine. University Award Recipients .................................................... 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 5 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Hail the Gold and Blue! In Memoriam ........................................................................... 8 Tho’ the years around us gather, Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 Crowned with love and cheer, Still the memory of Old Emory Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 Grows to us more dear. Oxford College .................................................................. 14 We will ever sing thy praises, School of Medicine ............................................................ 14 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 15 Hail the Gold and Blue! Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T School of Law .................................................................... 18 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 19 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 23 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 26 Recipients of Dual Degrees .................................................... 36 Recipients of Honors ............................................................. 37 Honorary Societies ................................................................. 40 Recipients of Awards and Prizes ............................................. 46 Emory University Commencement 2020 1 A Commentary on Commencement Emory College of Arts and Sciences originated from Academic Dress and Customs a concern for higher education in a Christian setting on the part of the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Academic dress goes back to the founding of European universi- Chartered in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, the college was named ties, which were the products of the intellectual revival of the after John Emory (1789–1835), bishop of the Methodist Episcopal twelfth century. All medieval students were clerks and consequently Church. In 1964 the college at Oxford was named Oxford College wore the dress of clergy. This is the academic costume we wear of Emory University. today, with certain changes introduced in the sixteenth century by Emory College became Emory University by virtue of a char- Protestant reformers. The oldest articles of academic wear were ter granted by the Superior Court of DeKalb County on January the robe, over which was worn the habit, usually a kind of tunic 25, 1915. Although classes on the Atlanta campus were begun in with short, wide sleeves. The medieval hood was lined with fur or the schools of law and theology as early as 1916, the college did inexpensive skins and could be gathered around the neck or pulled not move to Atlanta until 1919. The university now includes nine up on the head as a turban. It is uncertain when different colors schools, most tracing their origins to years before the chartering of became associated with different degrees. the university itself. These schools are Emory College and Oxford There were four kinds of caps: the round cap, reserved for doc- College (1836), the School of Medicine (1854), Nell Hodgson toral dignity; the tena, a round cap with strings tied under the chin, Woodruff School of Nursing (1905), Candler School of Theology worn by jurists; the square cap; and the Tudor bonnet. At Oxford (1914), the School of Law (1916), Roberto C. Goizueta Business University in 1565 the square cap became the norm, but the facul- School (1919), the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ties that had become laicized adopted the Tudor bonnet that is still (1919), and Rollins School of Public Health (1990). worn by doctoral candidates today. The basic design of all academ- The intent of the founders is perpetuated by the university’s ic costume in the United States was first established in 1895 and vision statement: A destination university internationally was first used at Emory by the Class of 1902. The bachelor’s gown recognized as an inquiry-driven, ethically engaged, and diverse features an embroidered Emory University seal in gold thread and community, whose members work collaboratively for positive has long, pointed, open sleeves. The master’s gown has longer transformation in the world through courageous leadership in sleeves, which are closed at the bottom with openings about mid- teaching, research, scholarship, health care, and social action. way for the hands. Beginning in 2014, the bachelor’s and master’s gowns are made of fabric spun from molten plastic pellets from recycled water bottles. An average of twenty-three post-consumer A Short History of Commencement at Emory plastic bottles are used to create each gown, furthering Emory’s commitment to sustainability initiatives. The doctor’s gown has This is Emory’s 175th commencement. The exercises represent an full-length lapels of velvet and bell-shaped sleeves with three hori- imposition of medieval academic tradition on an institution that zontal velvet bars. Tassels for bachelor’s and master’s caps are had its roots in the nineteenth-century frontier. The first Emory black; tassels of gold thread may be worn by doctors. Gowns and commencement was held in 1840, four years after Emory College caps are usually black, although Emory and some other schools had been chartered and two years after the college’s first classes. have specified that their doctors may wear gowns of distinctive col- That first ceremony, however, was without graduating students, ors. Yale’s deep blue doctoral gown, Harvard’s crimson, Columbia’s as there were no graduates until the following year. Then, as now, dark blue, and Emory’s blue and gold are a few that may be seen sermons and addresses had a central focus in the exercises, though in the procession. rarely have these addresses been so crucial as in 1849, when all The hood varies for the respective degrees, the doctor’s hood fifteen members of the graduating class were assigned speaking being longer and fuller than the master’s. The field of study can places and spoke for as long as half an hour each. be determined from the velvet facing on the hood according Early commencement audiences sat for up to four hours in to the following color scheme: white, the arts; gold-yellow, science; the midsummer heat to listen to the numerous student and fac- purple, law; apricot, nursing; green, medicine; teal, physical ulty orations on such topics as “Our Government Unfavorable to therapy; scarlet, theology; salmon, public health; drab, business; High Attainment in Literature,” “Social Equality,” and “Modern and dark blue, doctors of philosophy. The hood is lined with Refinements.” These addresses in the early days were in English, silk in the colors of the degree-granting institution. For Emory contrary to the practice at many other institutions. As President graduates the lining is blue with a chevron of gold. A. B. Longstreet argued in 1842, speeches in Latin and Greek were The president of Emory University wears a badge of office “worthy of the name pedantry, and nothing more.” In spite of this given to the university in 1965 by the Emory chapter, Gamma advice, several later generations of students instructed their audi- of Georgia, of Phi Beta Kappa. Designed by Eric Clements of ences in the ancient tongues. Birmingham, England, and executed by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in London, the solid gold badge is an open teardrop enclosing the raised seal of the university and is suspended on a gold chain. 2 Emory University Commencement 2020 University Award Recipients The Marion Luther Brittain Service Award Cody M. Long 20L Graduate Brittain Award Recipient This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students by the university, is an expression of gratitude for service performed Early on, Cody Long made the decision to pursue with without expectation of reward or recognition. The award equal vigor his studies at Emory School of Law and impassioned was established at Emory in 1942 through a bequest from a service to the broader university and Atlanta community. distinguished Emory alumnus, former President Brittain of the While maintaining a high grade-point average, he served as Georgia Institute of Technology. vice president for academic affairs with Emory Law’s Student Bar Association. For two years, Long also represented the Student Bar Samah Z. Meghjee 18Ox 20C Association on the University Senate. Undergraduate Brittain Award Recipient He was a thoughtful contributor to several key committees of the University Senate, including the Executive Committee, the During her time at Emory, Samah Meghjee engagingly Open Expression Committee, the Title IX Working Group, and the tackled what it means to be a South Asian in a