What is the nature of the human mind? The Emory Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture (CMBC) seeks new answers to this fundamental question by supporting interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and training at the intersection of mind, brain, and culture. Our core activities include organizing thematic workshops, discussion meetings, and lectures as well as training the next generation of interdisciplinary scholars though our Graduate Certificate and Undergraduate Fellows programs.
Your gift will directly support CMBC programming, including the cost of visiting lectures from prominent and emerging international scholars, interdisciplinary workshops, and funding for small grants to support interdisciplinary research and professional development by our Graduate and Undergraduate students.
In the past year alone, the CMBC sponsored fourteen public lectures, two informal research mixers, and a highly successful interdisciplinary workshop on Embodied Cognition, Learning, and Culture, with papers to appear in a forthcoming theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society organized by CMBC Director Dietrich Stout. We also welcomed an exciting new cohort of five Graduate Certificate students and three Undergraduate Fellows!
Don’t take our word for it. Here are quotes from one of our Core Faculty:
“It’s been a great privilege for me to be included in CMBC programs and it’s one of the better things – more exciting things – that’s happened and Emory during my 37 years here.” - MELVIN KONNER, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Behavioral Biology
And from one of our Graduate Alumni:
“The CMBC gave me exposure to fields outside my own…you realize through the CMBC that there is so much out there." - CHRISTINA N. ROGERS FLATTERY, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
