EMERITI REGENTS' PROFESSORS
Regents’ Professorships are bestowed on the most distinguished faculty of Georgia State University, whose scholarly achievements are recognized both nationally and internationally as innovative and renowned.
About Regents' Professorships
A Regents’ Professorship shall be awarded by the Board only upon the unanimous recommendation of the University president, the academic Provost, the appropriate academic dean, and three (3) other members of the faculty to be named by the president, and upon the approval of the Chancellor and the Committee on Academic Affairs (Board of Regents Minutes, October 2008). A Regents’ Professorship shall be granted by the Board of Regents for a period of three (3) years.
Consideration of the renewal of the professorship for a second three-year period shall be given by the Board of Regents upon recommendation of the president of the institution, the Chancellor, and the Committee on Academic Affairs. After a period of six (6) years the Regents’ Professorship shall be renewed at the discretion of the president of the institution (Board of Regents Minutes, August 2011).
Marion Kuntz
Each year, two Emeriti Regents’ Professors will be introduced through a brief bio.
Marion Leathers Kuntz (June 9, 1924 – July 10, 2010)
In1975, Dr. Kuntz became a full Professor of Classics at Georgia State University and was honored in Georgia as the first female Regent’s Professor of Classics. The following year, she became the first woman to chair the Georgia State University foreign language department.
Dr. Kuntz is best known for authoring the first English translation of Jean Bodin’s Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis (Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime) and six additional scholarly books. In 1985 Dr. Kuntz was honored as a Fuller E. Callaway Distinguished Professor, just one year after earning her position as a Research Professor.
Emeriti Regents' Professors List
*Lauren Adamson
Regents’ Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences
Roy Bahl
Dean and Regents’ Professor Emeritus
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
*Joseph Baylen
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
George Beasley
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Kenneth Bernhardt
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
*Kenneth Black, Jr.
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
David Boykin
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Harvey Brightman
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Donald Edwards
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Margaret Fagan
Regents’ Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences
Teryl Frey
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Martin Grace
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Roger H. Hermanson
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Hugh Hudson
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
*Marion L. Kuntz
Regents’ Professor Emerita
College of Arts and Sciences
*David Martin
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions
Harold McAlister
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
*Michael Mescon
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Yi Pan
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Donald Ratajczak
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Robert Sattelmeyer
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
*William Sessions
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Phang Cheng Tai
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Arts and Sciences
Walter Thompson
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Education and Human Development
Wayne Urban
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
College of Education and Human Development
Richard Welke
Regents’ Professor Emeritus
J. Mack Robinson College of Business