 After receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1952 , he spent three years teaching at Young Harris College in north Georgia , while also serving as part @-@ time pastor to a six @-@ church circuit and establishing a seventh congregation in the area . Ernest Cadman Colwell , formerly president of the University of Chicago , brought Cobb to Emory University in Georgia to teach in the new graduate institute for liberal arts . In 1958 , Cobb followed Colwell to Claremont , California , where he was named Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Avery Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University . He established the Process Studies journal with Lewis S. Ford in 1971 and co @-@ founded the Center for Process Studies with David Ray Griffin in 1973 , making Claremont the center of Whiteheadian process thought . Twenty @-@ five years later , together with Herman Greene , he organized the International Process Network . This organization holds biennial conferences , the tenth of which will be taking place in Claremont in 2015 . 
