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Professor Nancy Newman, MedicineProfessor Patricia Bridges, Allied HealthProfessor Sally Lehr, NursingProfessor Rex D. Matthews, TheologyProfessor Richard D. Freer, LawProfessor Doug Bowman, BusinessProfessor Nancy J. Thompson, Public HealthProfessor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate SchoolIsabel M. Garcia 99L, AlumniPresentation of the Marion LutherBrittain Service AwardThis award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on studentsby the university, is an expression of gratitude for serviceperformed without expectation of reward or recognition. Theaward was established at Emory in 1942 through a bequestfrom a distinguished Emory alumnus, former President Brittainof the Georgia Institute of Technology.Evan Clayton Dunn 10OX 12CEvan Clayton Dunn, a senior in Emory College of Artsand Sciences, is the 2012 Marion Luther Brittain Award winner.Dunn is a candidate for a bachelor of arts in both political science and history.Dunn began his studies at Oxford College and spent morethan nine hundred hours volunteering with Hands on Newton,the International Rescue Committee, the Peer Assistant Leaderprogram, and the Bonner Leader Program. He received theSammy Clark Scholarship for Community Service and the VirgilEady Sophomore Service Award for his extraordinary commitment to leadership and service.After transitioning to the Atlanta campus, Dunn began working with Volunteer Emory, serving as an orientation leader, andstarting a GED tutoring program in Clarkston, Georgia. Dunnalso developed a particular interest in reforming the EmoryCollege Honor Council. He became president of AcademicReforms and chair of the Committee for Academic Integrity. Hewas instrumental in adding a faculty vote in the revised HonorCouncil process and was awarded the Lancaster Honor CouncilAcademic Integrity Award.In recognition of his many accomplishments, Dunn wasselected to be a member of both the 100 Senior HonoraryClass of 2012 and Who’s Who Among American Colleges andUniversities.Presentation of theUniversity Scholar/Teacher AwardChosen by the university president from nominations by thedeans on behalf of the United Methodist Church Board ofHigher Education and Ministry.Sarah B. FreemanBetty Tigner Turner Clinical Professor of NursingAffiliate Faculty, Emory University Center for Ethics4 Emory University Commencement 2012As a nurse practitioner for more than thirty-five yearsand a nationally recognized expert in women’s health andchronic disease management, Sarah Freeman has had a powerfuland lasting impact on her field. She is a prolific researcher andwriter; serves on editorial boards of leading nursing journals; sitson the boards of national organizations, such as the NationalAssociation of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH);and has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy ofNurse Practitioners and to Who’s Who in American Nursing.Currently, Freeman is the director of both the Women’sHealth Nurse Practitioner Program and the combined Women’sHealth and Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the NellHodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Furthermore, she teachesbioethics in both the MSN and PhD programs at Emory.Throughout her career, Freeman has been a tireless advocate for nurse practitioner education. She has been extensivelyinvolved in the development of innovative strategies for trainingnurse practitioners, and she was a central figure in the establishment of criteria for accreditation of the women’s health nursepractitioner programs.In addition to garnering national acclaim for her leadership,Freeman has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as an instructor and mentor. On the national level, shewas awarded the School of Nursing’s “Nurse Practitioner ofthe Year in Education and Research” in 1991 and the WysockiNational Leadership Award in Women’s Health in 2007. AtEmory, Freeman has been recognized in a variety of ways: as theTeaching Scholar for the School of Nursing in 1996–1997, as afellow in the Woodruff Leadership Academy of Emory’s HealthSciences Center in 2005, as a recipient of the Emory WilliamsDistinguished Teaching Award in 2008, and most recently asa Distinguished Teaching Scholar in Nursing by the Center forFaculty Development and Excellence in 2009–2010.Freeman received a BS in nursing from Georgia StateUniversity; she received a master’s degree in community healthnursing and completed the family nurse practitioner program ofArizona State University; and she received a PhD in educationfrom Georgia State University. Her commitment to excellence—as an educator, a clinician, and a researcher—makes her a superbcandidate to receive this award.Presentationof theThomas Jefferson AwardAwarded each year to a faculty member or administrativeofficer for significant service to the university through personalactivities, influence, and leadership.Peggy BarlettGoodrich C. White Professor of AnthropologyFaculty Liaison to the Office of Sustainability InitiativesProfessor Peggy Barlett began her academic career inthe field—literally. While working on a BA in anthropology atGrinnell College, she embarked on an undergraduate researchproject with peasant farmers in Costa Rica. Later, her doctoralresearch at Columbia University took her back to Costa Rica;subsequent projects led her to Ecuador and, eventually, to ruralGeorgia. Her career has been defined by an abiding interest in

farmer decision making, rural social change, agricultural systems,and sustainable development.Her most recent professional projects have occurred muchcloser to home. In 1999, Barlett’s work underwent a majorshift as she moved from examining agrarian change throughconventional research, and turned her focus towards “Emory asa hands-on arena of cultural transformation.” She became anessential voice for sustainability efforts on campus and servedas the founding coordinator of the Ad Hoc Committee onEnvironmental Stewardship.Over the years, Barlett has dedicated herself to expandingawareness of environmental issues through curriculumdevelopment (e.g., the Piedmont Project), campus policies, andcommunity building. Focusing her interests in local food systems,she continues to serve as the chair of the Sustainable FoodCommittee, administered through the Office of SustainabilityInitiatives at Emory (an office largely created in response to herenvironmental leadership). Outside Emory, Barlett is involved in alocal watershed alliance and the Atlanta Local Food Initiative.Barlett has published several books reflecting heranthropological work, including Agricultural Choice andChange: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community andAmerican Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis,and she has served as editor of Agricultural Decision Making:Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development. She is alsothe coeditor (with Geoffrey Chase) of Sustainability on Campus:Stories and Strategies for Change and is editor of Urban Place:Reconnecting with the Natural World.The university’s reputation as a national leader in campussustainability is a direct result of Barlett’s persistence,commitment, and hard work. Through her expertise as ananthropologist and her passion for place-based pedagogy, Barletthas helped to transform Emory, and in doing so, has made majorcontributions to higher education and the world we inhabit.,.The following awards will be presented during the diplomaceremony at the school of each recipient.The Emory Williams Awardsfor Distinguished TeachingThe university’s oldest awards for teaching were establishedin 1972 by alumnus Emory Williams 32C. Awards in the artsand sciences are determined by a committee of Emory Collegefaculty. Goizueta Business School, Oxford College, and NellHodgson Woodruff School of Nursing each present an award forexcellence in undergraduate teaching. One other award rotatesamong the professional schools.Louise PrattProfessor of ClassicsEmory College of Arts and SciencesRex D. MatthewsAssociate Professor in the Practice of Historical TheologyCandler School of TheologyRoger RochatResearch Professor of Global HealthRollins School of Public HealthKyle W. PetersenProfessor of Cell BiologySchool of MedicineWilliam B. CodyProfessor of Political ScienceOxford CollegeCarolyn Miller ReillyAssistant Professor of NursingNell Hodgson Woodruff School of NursingRoy T. BlackProfessor in the Practice of FinanceGoizueta Business SchoolA. James ElliottAssociate Dean andCo-Director of the Professionalism ProgramSchool of LawThe George P. Cuttino Awardfor Excellence in MentoringEstablished in 1997 by John T. Glover 68C.Harry RuscheProfessor of English,.AuthorizationtoConfer DegreesThe conferring of degrees is authorized in formal session by theBoard of Trustees of Emory University on the recommendation of the president and the faculties. At today’s ceremony,Chair Ben F. Johnson III symbolically will authorize PresidentWagner to confer degrees upon the graduates, including therecipients of honorary degrees.Patrick AllittCahoon Family Professor of American HistoryEmory College of Arts and SciencesSkip GaribaldiAssociate Professor of Mathematics and Computer ScienceEmory College of Arts and SciencesEmory University Commencement 2012 5

Honorary DegreesCamille BillopsSculptor, Printmaker, Writer, and FilmmakerDoctor of Humane Letters, honoris causaBeginning her career as a sculptor and printmaker,Camille Billops has extended her artistic reach to include writing, publishing, and filmmaking.In 1975, together with her husband James V. Hatch, Billopsfounded the renowned Hatch-Billops Collection, an archive ofAfrican American cultural materials that they have donatedto the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory. This collectionincludes interviews with nearly fourteen hundred minority artists of all disciplines. Billops and Hatch have published 473 ofthese artists’ lives and descriptions of their work in thirty annualvolumes of Artist and Influence. In conjunction with RandallBurkett, the curator of African American collections at Emory,they have established an endowment fund to assure that thecollection will continue to grow in the future.Billops has exhibited her art throughout the world. She wroteand published The Harlem Book of the Dead, featuring thepoetry of Owen Dodson and the photography of James VanDer Zee, with an introduction by Toni Morrison. Billops earneda BA from California State University and an MFA from CityCollege of New York. She has received grants from the NewYork State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment forthe Arts, the Rockefeller Fellowship in Filmmaking, and theSkowhegan Award for contribution in the arts. Billops, withher husband, has produced and directed six documentary films,including Suzanne Suzanne, chosen by the Museum of ModernArt for its New Directors Series in 1983; Finding Christa, winnerof the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 1992; andA String of Pearls, chosen “premiere” film for the Planet Africaseries at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002.Ms. Billops will be presented by Dean of Emory College ofArts and Sciences Robin Forman.James V. HatchWriter and Professor Emeritus,Graduate Theatre Program,City University of New YorkDoctor of Letters, honoris causaJames Hatch is the author of several books on AfricanAmerican theatre, including Black Theatre USA (coedited withTed Shine) and the prize-winning biography Sorrow Is theOnly Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson, which won theBarnard Hewett Award for “outstanding book in theatre history.” He has a PhD in theatre from the University of Iowa.His recognitions include the Skowhegan Award (with his wife,Camille Billops) for contributions to the arts, the WinonaFletcher Award for Outstanding Achievement in Black Theatre,the Life Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre inHigher Education, an Obie Award for the Civil Rights musicalFly Blackbird, and a second Obie for his contributions to offBroadway theatre. Hatch and Errol G. Hill co-wrote A Historyof African American Theatre, a book that the American Societyfor Theatre Research designated as the “outstanding book intheatre history in 2004.”6 Emory University Commencement 2012Together with Camille Billops, Hatch established the HatchBillops Collection of African American cultural materials, whichthey have donated to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory.Dr. Hatch will be presented by Dean of Emory College of Artsand Sciences Robin Forman.Catharine R. StimpsonUniversity Professor and Dean Emeritaof the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,New York UniversityDoctor of Letters, honoris causaCatharine R. Stimpson is a leader in the advancement ofgraduate education. Widely known as a scholar of gender studiesand feminist theory, she is the author of many works, including the novel Class Notes and a collection of essays, Where theMeanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces. She has editedseven books and has written numerous essays, stories, and reviewsfor publications ranging from the New York Times Book Reviewto Critical Inquiry and the Nation, among others. Now the editor of a book series for the University of Chicago Press, she wasthe founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture andSociety, an important journal in the field of gender studies. Sheserved as chair of the New York State Humanities Council, theNational Council for Research on Women, and the NationalAdvisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National FellowshipFoundation. She has also served as president of the ModernLanguage Association and has lectured widely.She received an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College beforegoing on to obtain a BA and MA from Cambridge Universityand a PhD with distinction from Columbia University. She hasbeen awarded Fulbright and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships.In 2011 she was awarded the Francis A. March Award forDistinguished Service to the Profession from the ModernLanguage Association. Prior to her 1997 appointment as deanof New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science,she was the director of the Fellows Program of the John D. andCatherine T. MacArthur Foundation.An academic leader focused on shaping graduate education andthe student experience, Stimpson has visited Emory several timesas a scholar and lecturer.Dr. Stimpson will be presented by Dean of the James T. LaneySchool of Graduate Studies Lisa A. Tedesco.Muhammad YunusChairman, Yunus CentreDoctor of Letters, honoris causaMuhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank inBangladesh in 1983, spurred by a vision for lifting people out ofpoverty. His objective was to create a new category of bankingthat would grant millions of small loans to poor people with nocollateral. This endeavor helped to establish the microcredit movement across the developing world, for which he was awardedthe Nobel Prize in 2006. That year, Yunus established the YunusCentre as an economic policy resource center to disseminate hisphilosophy and practices.From Yunus’s personal loan of small amounts of money todestitute basket weavers in Bangladesh in the mid-1970s, the

Grameen Bank has advanced to the fore of a burgeoning worldmovement toward eradicating poverty through microlending.Replicas of the Grameen Bank model operate in more than onehundred countries worldwide.Born in 1940 in the seaport city of Chittagong, Yunus studied at Dhaka University in what was then East Pakistan, nowBangladesh. He received a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University, where he received a PhD in economics in 1969. The following year he became an assistant professorof economics at Middle Tennessee State University. Returning toBangladesh after it achieved independence in 1971, Yunus headedthe economics department at Chittagong University.Yunus has been a member of the International Advisory Groupfor the Fourth World Conference on Women, a post to which hewas appointed by the United Nations secretary general, and hehas served on the Global Commission of Women’s Health, theAdvisory Council for Sustainable Economic Development, and theUnited Nations Expert Group on Women and Finance.Yunus is the recipient of numerous international awards forhis ideas and endeavors, including the Nobel Peace Prize. He is amember of the board of the United Nations Foundation.Dr. Yunus will be presented by Dean of Goizueta BusinessSchool Lawrence M. Benveniste.Benjamin S. Carson Sr.Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery,The Johns Hopkins University Children’s CenterDoctor of Humane Letters, honoris causaBenjamin S. Carson Sr. had a childhood dream ofbecoming a physician, but he grew up facing challenges ofpoverty, poor schools, and low self-esteem. His mother, thoughlacking a high school diploma herself, instilled in her sons astriving for excellence and a determination to learn. Carson persevered and was admitted to Yale University, where he majoredin psychology before going on to graduate from the Universityof Michigan School of Medicine. He completed both his internship in general surgery and residency in neurological surgery atthe Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Today he is a full professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatricsat the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and he has directedpediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Centerfor more than a quarter of a century. In May 2008 he becamethe inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in his name,and he is now the Benjamin S. Carson Sr., MD, and Dr. EvelynSpiro, RN, Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery. His achievementsinclude the first separation of craniopagus twins conjoined at theback of the head, the first completely successful separation oftype-2 vertical craniopagus twins, and the first successful placement of an intrauterine shunt for a hydrocephalic twin. He is theauthor of five books including the recently published Americathe Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great. Heis a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society,the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Americans, and manyother prestigious organizations. He sits on the board of directorsof numerous organizations, and he is an Emeritus Fellow of theYale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University. He wasappointed in 2004 by President George W. Bush to serve on thePresident’s Council on Bioethics.In 2001, Carson was named by CNN and Time magazine asone of the nation’s twenty foremost physicians and scientists.That same year, he was selected by the Library of Congress asone of eighty-nine “Living Legends” on the occasion of its twohundredth anniversary. He is the recipient of the 2006 SpingarnMedal, the highest honor bestowed by the NAACP. In June 2008,he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by PresidentGeorge W. Bush.Dr. Carson will be presented by Dean of the School ofMedicine Thomas J. Lawley.Diploma CeremoniesFair WeatherDiplomas will be awarded in individual ceremonies after thisuniversity celebration. The map in the back of this programshows the locations of the diploma ceremonies, held as follows:Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Quadrangle, 9:45 a.m.School of Medicine, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 12:30 p.m.Business School, BBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 10:00 a.m.Medical Imaging Program, Harland Cinema, Dobbs UniversityCenter, 10:30 a.m.Physical Therapy Program, Woodruff Health Sciences Center,Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration BuildingAuditorium, 10:00 a.m.Graduate School, PhD Program, Schwartz Center forPerforming Arts, Emerson Hall, 10:30 a.m.School of Law, Gambrell Hall Lawn, 10:30 a.m.School of Nursing, McDonough Field, 10:30 a.m.School of Public Health, Rollins Plaza, 11:00 a.m.Business School, MBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 11:45 a.m.Graduate School, Master’s Program, Schwartz Center forPerforming Arts, Theater Lab, 9:30 a.m.School of Theology, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 9:45 a.m.Light RainIn the event of drizzle or light rain, the all-schools ceremony willgo forward at 8:00 a.m. The audience is invited to use umbrellas.Depending on the force of the rain and the safety of weather conditions, the president could decide to confer all degrees en masseand conclude the ceremony. Diploma ceremonies would then beheld as listed below.Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Quadrangle, 9:45 a.m.School of Medicine, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 12:30 p.m.Business School, BBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 10:00 a.m.Medical Imaging Program, Harland Cinema, Dobbs UniversityCenter, 10:30 a.m.Physical Therapy Program, Woodruff Health Sciences Center,Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration BuildingAuditorium, 10:00 a.m.Graduate School, PhD Program, Schwartz Center forPerforming Arts, Emerson Hall, 10:30 a.m.School of Law, Gambrell Hall Lawn, 10:30 a.m.School of Nursing, McDonough Field, 10:30 a.m.Emory University Commencement 2012 7

Business School, MBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 11:30 a.m.Graduate School, Master’s Program, Schwartz Center forPerforming Arts, Theater Lab, 9:30 a.m.School of Public Health, Decatur First United MethodistChurch, 300 East Ponce de Leon, Decatur, GA, NoonSchool of Theology, Glenn Memorial Auditorium, 9:45 a.m.Severe WeatherShould weather conditions improve sufficiently, the college andthe schools of law, nursing, and public health might wish to proceed with their outdoor diploma ceremonies. The deans will makethis decision. During outdoor ceremonies, if weather conditionsdeteriorate and become unsafe, the ceremonies will be abbreviated. Ushers and safety marshals will direct guests to exits and safeshelter. Students will be informed about where and how to obtaintheir diplomas.If severe weather forces the cancellation of the all-schoolsceremony, the diploma ceremonies will be held as follows:Business School, BBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 8:45 a.m.Business School, MBA Program, Woodruff Physical EducationCenter, 10:30 a.m.Graduate Scho

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath 04C 14G, Hindu Nabil Ahmed Jaffar 12C, Islamic Ariel Wolpe 12C, Jewish Alma Mater Jacob Light 12C Rashon Murrill 10OX 12C Collin Shepard 14C Benjamin Sperling 12C Michael Tseng 12C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to plea