Professionalization in Graduate Training: Ethics at Emory

In the last few years, the Laney Graduate School of Emory University has created a professional development program which includes a grant writing workshop, exploration of careers beyond the professoriate and The Jones Program in Ethics (JPE). The JPE is required across all schools and disciplines that have LGS doctoral programs. Through coursework, and attendance at workshops and events, students are trained to do responsible research and learn about ethics more generally. This presentation will discuss the JPE and discuss how this might relate to the specific training of graduate students within the discipline of history.

Pamela Scully received her PhD in History from The University of Michigan. She is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Professor of African Studies, and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, at Emory University. Her most recent book is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Ohio University Pres, 2016) and she is currently writing a book with Fiona Paisley, “Writing Transnational History” (under contract with Bloomsbury UK).