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At Emory University, German studies is a freestanding language department within the Emory College of Arts & Sciences. It offers a pedagogically-driven and integrated undergraduate major and minor in German studies. In addition, the German studies faculty teach courses in Yiddish language and culture, in the Linguistics Program, The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Sustainability Minor, and the Music and Film & Media Studies Departments. Faced with Germany’s abhorrent Nazi past and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust as well as the legacy of German colonialism, the Department is particularly committed to critically examine cultural memories of oppression and resistance, and therefore actively promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in research, coursework, and outreach. 

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Faculty News

The Department of German Studies is excited to welcome Richmond Embeywa as Provost Postdoc of German Studies.  Dr. Embeywa received his Ph.D. in Transcultural German Studies at the University of Arizona in 2023.
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Faculty News

The Department of German Studies is excited to welcome Julia Ruck as Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies.  Dr. Ruck received her Ph.D. in in German Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked as Assistant Professor of Second Language Studies at Webster Vienna Private University. 
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Faculty News

Associate Professor of German Studies and Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University, Dr. Miriam Udel served as Chaplain of the Day in the Georgia House of Representatives, offering an invocation and benediction at the start of the legislative session on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.
Video: Chaplain of the Day 2.1.23
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Faculty News

Caroline Schaumann is joining the general editors for the series Nature, Culture and Literature at Brill
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Student News

German Studies minors Cosette Drook 23C and Hannah Klein 23C were recognized in the group of students named in the 100 Senior Honorary.
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Student News

Congratulations to Hannah Kreuziger for receiving the AATG-Georgia Chapter College Student of the Year Award.  

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