Research Impact Faculty Fellows
The Senior Vice President for Research is sponsoring two Emory faculty members as the SVPR Research Impact Faculty Fellows.
Research Impact Faculty Fellows
Deepa Das Acevedo
Associate Professor of Law
https://law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/das-acevedo-profile.html
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist whose areas of expertise include Employment Law, Faculty Tenure, Employee Benefits, Legal Anthropology, Comparative Law, Secularism. Her research blends ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with doctrinal and policy analysis to provide new insights about legal rules and institutions. She studies employment regulation (particularly faculty tenure as an employment protection), the law and politics of India (focusing on next-generation law & policy organizations), and methodological and theoretical developments in the anthropology of law. She is the Editor of the peer-reviewed journal PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, a past Trustee of the Law & Society Association, and has held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools, the American Anthropological Association, and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.
Her goals during her Faculty Fellowship will be on understanding variations in public scholarship and engagement across Emory, encouraging public scholarship and engagement by Emory faculty, and growing Emory's reputation among nonspecialist audiences.
Faculty Profile
Jodie Guest
Professor of Epidemiology, Senior Vice Chair Department of Epidemiology
https://sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/index.php?FID=jodie-guest-276
Jodie Guest is an epidemiologist whose areas of expertise include Clinical Research, Health Disparities, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Public Health Preparedness and Response, Science Communication, and Public Health Leadership. She lectures extensively on the use of epidemiologic study formats in the clinical medicine arena. She is on the steering committee for the international cohort collaboration ART-CC, and is the co-founder of the HIV Atlanta VA Cohort Study (HAVACS). She leads the for Emory Farmworker Project held each year in South Georgia. Dr. Guest has played a prominent role in engaging with local and national media since the conset of the COVID-19 pandemic and hosted Emory's weekly video updates about COVID-19 during the first two years of the pandemic. Building off of this work, she will direct the new Science Communication Certificate at the Rollins School of Public Health.
Her goals during her Faculty Fellowship will be on developing materials and connections to help Emory faculty and the community understand some of the intricacies around detailed topics including F&A, research impact communications, and how to navigate a changing research landsacpe. She's also working on helping the University Faculty Senate incorporate public scholarship in school and university Tenure & Promotion processes.
Faculty Profile