Vanderbilt University honors 35 as emeritus and emerita faculty

Vanderbilt recognized retiring faculty during the university's Commencement ceremony on May 13.
Vanderbilt recognized retiring faculty members during the university’s Commencement ceremony on May 13.

Vanderbilt University has honored 35 retiring faculty members for their years of service by bestowing upon them the title of emerita or emeritus faculty. They were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony on May 13.

A faculty member who has served the university with distinction over a period of years and whose status remains active until retirement, may, upon recommendation of the appropriate dean and the chancellor, be awarded the title “emeritus” or “emerita” by the Board of Trust.

Read more about Vanderbilt’s emeritus and emerita professors for 2022:

  • Kathryn H. Anderson, professor of economics, emerita
  • Houston Baker, University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and English, Emeritus
  • Joey V. Barnett, professor of pharmacology, emeritus
  • William James Booth, professor of political science, emeritus
  • Roger Chalkley, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, emeritus
  • William G. Christie, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management, emeritus, and Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management, Emeritus
  • Peter Jeffrey Conn, professor of pharmacology, emeritus
  • Kate Daniels, Edwin Mims Chair, Emerita, and professor of English, emerita
  • Ariel Y. Deutch, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, emeritus
  • Robert A. Driskill, professor of economics, emeritus
  • Roland Eavey, professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery, emeritus
  • Paul H. Edelman, professor of mathematics, emeritus
  • Jo-David Fine, professor of dermatology, emeritus
  • Karl E. Hackenbrack, associate professor of management, emeritus
  • Rogers Hall, Wachtmeister Family Chair, Emeritus, and professor of education, emeritus
  • Joseph H. Hamilton, Landon C. Garland Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and professor of physics, emeritus
  • Allen B. Kaiser, professor of medicine, emeritus
  • Howard Kirshner, professor of neurology, emeritus
  • Nancy M. Lorenzi, professor of biomedical informatics, emerita
  • Robert Matusik, professor of urology, emeritus
  • Richard Charles McCarty, dean of the College of Arts and Science, emeritus, and professor of psychology, emeritus
  • Hector Myers, professor of medicine, health and society, emeritus, and professor of African American and diaspora studies, emeritus
  • Wallace Neblett, professor of pediatric surgery, emeritus
  • John H. Newman, professor of medicine, emeritus
  • Linda D. Norman, dean of the School of Nursing, emerita, and Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing, Emerita
  • David C. Parsley, E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Economics and Finance, Emeritus
  • William Petrie, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, emeritus
  • Lisa Pray, professor of the practice of teaching and learning, emerita
  • John G. Ratcliffe, professor mathematics, emeritus
  • Albert B. Reynolds, professor of pharmacology, emeritus
  • Donna L. Seger, professor of medicine, emerita
  • Suzanna Sherry, Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law, Emerita
  • Tony K. Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of religious studies, emeritus
  • Cecelia Tichi, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English, Emerita
  • John A. Weymark, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Social and Natural Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of economics, emeritus