Justice,
I am living in Atlanta right now. I am planning on applying to the MTS program at Emory in the Fall. I contacted Luke Timothy Johnson by email several months ago and asked him about doing a PhD there. His reply was one sentence, very short, and very vague. So I emailed him back to ask a follow up question. He told me to stop emailing him and he had better things to do! Out of the dozens of profs I have emailed, he is the only one who was an A-Hole to me, a real piece of work. Now, maybe he was just having a bad day, who knows. But I wouldn't do a PhD with him, given his superiority complex. Maybe you would have better luck with him. I would go to Duke if I were you. It's more respected and it will be easier for you to get a job with a degree from there. The OT dept at Emory is super nice,though. Carol Newsome was more than willing to correspond with me. So just depends on what your interests are. Maybe you should email Johnson and see how he reacts.
