Advisory Committee
As part of the Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement’s mission to connect scholars and the public, we consult with both faculty and community leaders to better understand how the CPSE can help drive conversations.
We are grateful for these voices that help refine our mission.
Advisors
Director at Emory University Center for Faculty Development and Excellence.
Owner, Little Shop of Stories. Diane served as Children’s Program Director for the Decatur Book Festival for its entire run.
Executive Director at Creative Media Industries Institute (Georgia State University).
Editor at Large of Paste Magazine, a Founding Partner of Poitier & Dunaway Motion Pictures, and the Creative Director of the Rome International Film Festival. His documentary 21 Years: Richard Linklater was a New York Times Critics Pick. In addition to Paste, he has been published in The New York Times, Playboy, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Bitter Southerner, and elsewhere. Current projects include a novel, Bob Dylan Slept Here; a book of interviews about self-care for creatives; and a major television series about the civil rights movement, The Movement. He lives in Atlanta.
Bobby Gross has spent over four decades in university ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, USA, a national ecumenical organization working on university campuses. Bobby served on the national board of Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) for six years.
Assistant Director of Collection Development at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
Author of The Magnetic Girl, winner of the 2020 Southern Book Prize and Creative Writing Professor at Oglethorpe University.
Editor-in-chief of PasteMagazine and Jezebel Magazine.
Former VP and Secretary at Emory University, also former Decatur Book Festival board member.
Award-winning journalist, cultural critic, ethnomusicologist, professional development coordinator and multimedia journalism professor at Morehouse College. He is a full-time Black Culture Reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English & American Studies, Oxford College.
Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University, where she teaches health and science writing and storytelling.
Chelsea Rathburn is the author of three full-length poetry collections and poet laureate of Georgia.
Executive Co-Director and Co-Founder at Science ATL, engineers of Atlanta Science Festival.
Editor of the Boston Globe's books section, and author of a weekly column there. Former president of the National Book Critics Circle.