For our final summer reading post in this blog series, we spoke with Dr. Bo Adams, Director of the Pitts Theology Library and Candler’s Margaret A. Pitts Assistant Professor in the Practice of Theological Bibliography! Bo holds a doctorate in New Testament studies from Emory, but also has a background in computer science, an interest…
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Come Work with us at Pitts!
We are excited to announce we’ve launched a search for a new position, a Systems and Digital Scholarship Librarian. This librarian will build and enhance library software systems, work on digitization and digital access projects based on Pitts’ collections, and partner with students and faculty to develop new digital scholarship. This person will also work…
Summer Reads, vol. 8: Joel LeMon
For our penultimate blog in this summer reading series, we spoke with Dr. Joel LeMon, Associate Professor of Old Testament and Associate Director of Emory’s the Graduate Division of Religion! Dr. LeMon is well known for his mentorship of doctoral students in Hebrew Bible and for his passionate teaching of Candler’s required Old Testament introductory…
Summer Reads, vol. 7: Deanna Ferree Womack
This week we spoke to Deanna Ferree Womack, Assistant Professor of History of Religions and Multifaith Relations at Candler. Dr. Womack teaches courses on Christian-Muslim dialogue and has a book that will appear soon entitled “Protestants, Gender, and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria”! Dr. Womack’s summer reading recommendation is a brand new memoir…
Summer Reads, vol. 6: Armin Siedlecki and Jenny Vitti
This week, we spoke to two staff members at Pitts who work behind the scenes to ensure that you can find the books you need: both in our online catalogue and on the shelves! You may know that our first recommender, Armin Siedlecki, Head of Cataloguing, is an expert in reformation material—he’s curated the past…