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Quick answer: Wake Forest University in the US has 307 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 1 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at Wake Forest University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at Wake Forest University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Lara do Amaral Silva
Assistant Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
⭐ In the mission of mentoring the next generation of scientists and professionals, the Amaral-Silva lab currently has two PhD students and four undergraduate students. We are always on the watch for new talented undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested, please reach out (doamaral@wfu…
Neurophysiology, Neurobiology, Comparative physiology
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Aditya Devarakonda
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
high performance computing and machine learning with emphasis on the design, analysis, and implementation of efficient parallel algorithms
Ajay Patel
Department Chair for Finance & Economics; Thomas S. Goho Chair in Finance; Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alan Brown
Department Chair, Director of Graduate Education, and Professor · Wake Forest University
Critically examining the culture of sports in schools and society while connecting contemporary literacies to students’ extra-curricular interests
Alessandra Von Burg
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
rhetorical theory, citizenship, mobility, noncitizens and nonplaces
Alisa Russell
Assistant Professor, Writing · Wake Forest University
Rhetorical Genre Studies, Writing Across the Curriculum, Public Writing / Public Sphere Theories, Qualitative Research Methods
Alton B. Pollard III
James and Marilyn Dunn Chair in Baptist Studies and University Professor of African American Studies · School of Divinity
Alton B. Pollard III is the James and Marilyn Dunn Chair in Baptist Studies in the School of Divinity and University Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Wake Forest University. His scholarship focuses on African American religion and cultu…
Alyse Bertenthal
Associate Professor of Law · School of Law
Alyse Bertenthal is an Associate Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on environmental justice, regulatory and criminal enforcement, and the production and uses of evidence in science and law. She also studies how socio-environmental d…
Amanda Gengler
Associate Professor · Wake Forest College
Dr. Gengler’s research and teaching interests include the sociology of health and illness, the sociology of emotion, the interactional reproduction of inequality, and ethnographic research methods.
Amanda Griffith
Professor · Wake Forest University
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Amy Bull
Associate Director · Office of Personal & Career Development
Amy Bull is the Associate Director of Employer Experience at Wake Forest University School of Business, and she also serves as a staff member in the university's Office of Personal & Career Development. Her work focuses on supporting students' college-to-career transitions throug…
Amy Catanzano
Professor of English in Creative Writing | Poet-in-Residence | Co-Director, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series · Wake Forest University
Poetry, poetics, and experimental creative practice; Transmedia, interdisciplinary, and multimodal literary art; Intersections of poetry, science, and the arts; Literary and artistic subcultures of the avant-garde
Amy Mars
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
ancient Greek aesthetics (especially in Greek lyric and tragedy) as well as on theories of perception and cognition in ancient thought
Amy W. Clark
Assistant Professor, Literature · Wake Forest University
Old English language and literature
Middle English literature
Digital humanities
Environmental humanities and eco-criticism
New materialisms
Diasporic literatures
Identity formation studies
Ana-Maria Wahl
Associate Professor · Wake Forest College
Social stratification, politics of inequality, labor relations, race relations, health and safety legislation, Latino workers in meat packing industry, residential segregation in micropolitan areas, new Latino destinations, alcohol use and abuse among adolescents
Ananda Mitra
Professor
Ananda Mitra is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Wake Forest University. His research interests include communication and media, technology and culture, and qualitative and quantitative social research, with a particular focus on the Internet and cyberspace. He a…
Andre Mouton
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization
Andrea Gómez Cervantes
Anthony Bucaro | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University · Wake Forest College
Andrea Gómez Cervantes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. Her research interests center on immigration policies, Latinidad, and Indigeneity, as explored in her book *Illegality in the Heartland*.
Andreea Rotarescu
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, and International Finance
Andreea Rotarescu
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, and International Finance
Annalise Glauz-Todrank
Associate Professor - On Leave Academic Year 2025-2026 · Wake Forest University
The intersections of religion, race, and law in the configuration of Jewish identification, particularly in the modern period.
Annette Ranft
Special Advisor to the Interim Provost; FM Kirby Foundation Professor of Strategic Management · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anthony Marsh
Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences · Wake Forest College
Anthony Marsh is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science and Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on exercise and its effects on health, particularly in older adults. He holds a Ph.D. …
Anthony Sali
Assistant Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
I use a combination of studies of human behavior, eye tracking, human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the behavioral consequences and neural mechanisms associated with attentional and cognitive control.
1. Do individu…
Araceli (Sally) Perez-Ramos
Associate Director, Market Readiness & Employment · Wake Forest University
Araceli (Sally) Perez-Ramos is the Associate Director of Market Readiness & Employment in the Office of Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University. With 15 years of experience in career services, she has overseen programming initiatives, advised undergraduate and g…
Arkadipta Bakshi
Assistant Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
Plant stress physiology, plant signaling pathways, plant responses to spaceflight, plant-microbe interactions.
Ashley Graham Phipps
Associate Director · Office of Personal & Career Development
Ashley Graham Phipps is the Associate Director in the Office of Personal & Career Development at Wake Forest University, where she supports the office's mission of empowering students to flourish in work and life. Her work focuses on student career development and engagement with…
Austin Rivera
Assistant Professor of Church History · School of Divinity
His scholarship and teaching focus on the Church Fathers, ancient authors whose classic articulations of Christian doctrine have continued to shape the Church’s intellectual life down through the centuries to the present day. In particular, Dr. Rivera studies the writings of Orig…
Barry Trachtenberg
Professor · Wake Forest University
Barry Trachtenberg is a Professor in the Department of History at Wake Forest University, where he also serves as chair of the Jewish Studies program and holds the Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History. His research interests focus on Jewish history…
Ben Coates
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Ben Coates is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wake Forest University. He serves as a co-editor of the United States in the World book series from Cornell University Press. His current research focuses on the history of economic sanctions in the twentieth ce…
Ben King
Director of Interdisciplinary Programs; Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Betsy Schneider
Director, Pre-College Programs · Office of Personal & Career Development
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bill Marcum
Wall Street Partners Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bingxuan Guo
Assistant Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Brad T. Stilwell
Assistant Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
I study human cognitive behavior using a combination of response time, eye tracking, and electroencephalography (EEG). My focus is on visual attention and perception, specifically, how we learn to ignore sources of visual distraction.
Brenda McGrail
Executive Assistant to the Dean · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Brian Calhoun
Associate Professor of the Practice, Career Counseling and Development · Wake Forest University
Career counseling and development, career interventions that assist students with developing and learning more about their career options in the world of work.
Brian Marein
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Brian Marein is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Wake Forest University. His research interests include economic history and development, with recent work on topics such as historical child stunting and working papers from the university's economics departmen…
Brian Mendenhall
Senior Associate Director of STEM Career Education · Office of Personal & Career Development
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Brittany P. Battle
Associate Professor · Wake Forest College
Brittany P. Battle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. Her academic profile is affiliated with the Wake Forest College Department of Sociology.
Brook Davis
Professor, Acting · Wake Forest University
theatre pedagogy; 20th and 21st Century American dramatic literature; and practitioner and playwright, Constance D’Arcy Mackay
Cagney Gentry
Assistant Professor of Practice · Wake Forest University
Cagney Gentry is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University, where he teaches screenwriting and film studies courses. His teaching approach emphasizes creative humility and curiosity, encouraging students to find small, personal stories that broaden their perspe…
Cal Garrett
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest College
Cal Garrett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wake Forest University. They earned their PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2024, with a dissertation on the politics of green space and environmental health. Their research inter…
Caleigh McElwee Lepler
Associate Director, Career Education & Coaching · Wake Forest University
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cassandra Tran
Assistant Professor (2022) · Wake Forest University
Latin literature, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity—particularly the intersections between Asian America/Canada and Classics
Catherine Harnois
Professor · Wake Forest College
research methodology, social psychology, social inequality, speech and censorship
Cesar Grisales
Assistant Director; First Generation Success Programming · Office of Personal & Career Development
Cesar Grisales is the Assistant Director of First Generation Success Programming at Wake Forest University, affiliated with the university's Office of Personal and Career Development. His professional focus centers on student support and first-generation initiatives, building on …
Charles Iacovou
Dean of the School of Professional Studies & Vice Provost of Charlotte Programs; Professor of Management · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Charles Wilkins
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Social history of the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Period (1500-1800); long-term social and cultural integration of the Arab lands into the Ottoman Empire.
Charlesa Redmond
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chelsea Hilding
Assistant Professor of Dance · Wake Forest University
ballet pedagogy in relation to archival practices, physical culture, and the entanglements of eugenics and dance education in the early twentieth-century United States
Cheryl Rotyliano
Director of Market Readiness & Employment · Wake Forest University
Cheryl Rotyliano is the Director of Market Readiness & Employment at Wake Forest University School of Business. Her professional profile is affiliated with Wake Forest University, and she is based in Winston-Salem.
Chris Nichols
Instructional Assistant
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Christian Waugh
Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
Resilience and the temporal dynamics of emotion
Research examining individual differences in resilience has typically focused on the identification of people who have experienced stress and trauma, but who afterwards exhibit positive functioning. Much of the research in the area…
Christina Soriano
Professor of Dance; Co-Director of Neuroarts Lab; Co-Director of Wake the Arts Center · Wake Forest University
Christina Soriano is a Professor of Dance at Wake Forest University, where she also serves as Co-Director of the Neuroarts Lab and Co-Director of the Wake the Arts Center. Her research explores the intersections of dance and health, including how dance can improve cognitive and b…
Christopher Brown
Department Chair and Associate Professor, English · Wake Forest University
African American Literature
19th and 20th Century American Literature
Law and Literature
Critical Theory
Christopher Jernigan
Assistant Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
Dr. Chris Jernigan is a neuroethologist whose research explores how animals perceive and process complex social stimuli, with a particular focus on the neural mechanisms underlying social recognition. His work centers on the Northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus), a species in w…
Christopher Krieg
Assistant Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
Anatomy and microscopy, gas-exchange and carbon-relations, hydraulics and water-relations, species niche and distribution modelling, adaptation and phylogenetic comparative methods.
Christopher Martin
Associate Professor, Ballet; Co-Director of Dance · Wake Forest University
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christy Buchanan
Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Psychology Department · Wake Forest University
My research is aimed at understanding how characteristics of the family and of the individual are related to adjustment during adolescence and emerging adulthood. Specific interests include stereotypes of adolescents, and evaluating the perspective that adolescence is a time of “…
Claudia Falcón
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
I am an applied mathematician with focus on fluid dynamics problems. I am part of the WFU Fluid Dynamics Lab where we run experiments to validate our mathematical models.
Corey D. B. Walker
Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities · School of Divinity
Africana Philosophy, Critical Theory, Ethics, Religion and American Public Life, Social and Political Philosophy
Courtney Di Vittorio
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
The Di Vittorio lab develops products and tools that support data-driven decision-making in water resources management, using large remotely-sensed and in-situ datasets, statistical analysis and modeling, and physics-based hydrologic/hydraulic models.
Courtney Nance
Operations and Projects Assistant · Wake Forest University
Courtney Nance is an Operations and Projects Assistant at Wake Forest University, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In this role, she supports operational and project-related activities within the university. Prior to joining Wake Forest, she served as an Alumni Operations …
Cynthia Gendrich
Professor, Acting/Directing · Wake Forest University
comic theory, acting and directing history, theory, and practice, global forms of experimental theatre
Dale Dagenbach
Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research focuses on characterizing attention, memory, and brain organization. Currently, my primary focus is on network science analyses of functional MRI data to see whether this approach can enhance our understanding of 1) how memory and attention are instantiated in the bra…
Dana Hutchens
Director · Wake Forest University
Dana Hutchens is the Director of Employer Relations at Wake Forest University School of Business, where she also serves as a University Senate Staff Representative. Her work focuses on employer relations and career development, including initiatives to help students transition fr…
Dani Parker Moore
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Her research focuses on the foundational aspects of education, qualitative research methods, and the participation of parents and caregivers in schools and communities.
Daniel Cañas
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Software for computer science education, processes and thread in Linux
David Lubin
Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art · Wake Forest University
Art History: American Visual Art, Film History
David Robertson
Assistant Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Taylor
Assistant Dean for Global Study Away Programs; Center for Global Programs and Studies · Wake Forest College
David Taylor is the Assistant Dean for Global Study Away Programs at Wake Forest University's Center for Global Programs and Studies. His work focuses on the administration and development of study-away opportunities for students.
David Yamane
Professor · Wake Forest College
sociology of religion, guns in America, gun culture
Dean Franco
Winifred W. Palmer Professor of English · Wake Forest University
Comparative Race Studies
Jewish Cultural Studies
Chicana/o and Latinx Literature
Debbie French
Associate Professor, Science Education & Bitove Family Faculty Fellow
Physics and astronomy education research, climate change education, preservice and in-service science teacher preparation and professional development, and exploring best practices for incorporating authentic scientific inquiry in secondary science classrooms.
Derek P. Lee
Assistant Professor, Literature · Wake Forest University
Asian American literature, ethnic speculative fiction, science studies, and the graphic novel
Derek S. Hicks
Professor · School of Divinity
African American religion, religion in North America, race, the body, religion and foodways, theory and method in the study of religion, Black and Womanist theologies, and cultural studies
Devon Jefferson
Assistant Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Donell Moore
Associate Director, Career Education and Coaching; Professional Opportunities and Readiness · Wake Forest University
Donell Moore is the Associate Director of Career Education and Coaching for Professional Opportunities and Readiness at Wake Forest University's Office of Personal & Career Development. In this role, Moore supports students' college-to-career transitions through career coaching, …
Doug Beets
Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dr. Adam Friedman
Professor, Social Studies Education · Wake Forest University
His research agenda focuses on how technology resources, particularly digitized primary sources, and more recently XR technologies, can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of social studies, the factors that encourage and barriers that impede their use, and their impact …
Dónal Mulcahy
Associate Professor, Foundations of Education
education policy and its impact on both school and society, particularly in the urban context; international and comparative education; and the social, economic and political forces influencing school goals and outcomes.
E. J. Masicampo
Associate Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research examines the effortful mental processes that seem to separate humans from other animals: resisting temptations and impulses, reasoning and decision making, thinking about and simulating non-present events, and making plans for the future. I examine the reliance of the…
Ebony Flowers
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Comics/Graphic Narratives, Creativity, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Earley Associate Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies · School of Divinity
Constructive theology rooted in the Catholic tradition; Christian theology in conversation with human responses to vulnerability, suffering, violence, and oppression, especially in contexts of social injustice and ecological degradation; feminist theology; decolonial studies; lib…
Elizabeth Ricks
Associate Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ellen Kirkman
Loubat Professor of American Archaeology · Wake Forest University
Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Homological Algebra
Emily B. Simpson
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
medieval and early modern Japan, creation and structure of Japanese deities, intersection of religion and gender, role of narratives in promoting and spreading religious discourses
Eric Park
Assistant Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Eric Stone
Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research is in the field of judgment and decision making, which spans a wide range of areas, from cognitive psychology to social psychology to other disciplines. Broadly, practitioners in the field of decision making study both how people should make decisions and how they act…
Eric Wilson
Professor of English · Wake Forest University
American Culture and Mental Health
Transatlantic Romanticism
The Gothic
Literature and Psychology
Film and Religion
Western Esoteric Traditions
Humanism and Technology
Ericka Spradley
Associate Director, Career Education & Coaching · Wake Forest University
Ericka Spradley is the Associate Director of Market Readiness and Employment at Wake Forest University School of Business, where she also serves as Associate Director of Career Education & Coaching. A nationally recognized career coach with over a decade of experience, her work f…
Erik Nesson
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Health Economics, Law and Economics, and Sports Economics.
Erin Henslee
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
The electrophysiologic properties of cells, measured through lab-on-a-chip assays can be used to delineate how these properties relate to disease, drug resistance, circadian biology and cell patterning. I strive to find ways for engineering applications to complement, improve upo…
Errin Fulp
Professor · Wake Forest University
Intelligence-driven security leverages Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to enhance situational awareness and inform proactive defense strategies. By analyzing diverse intelligence sources, such as Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), attack patterns, and adversary Tactics, Techniques,…
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Trustworthy AI, Interpretable Learning, Model Explainability, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Misinformation Detection, Recommender System, Health Informatics, Financial Forecasting, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction
Fan Yang
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Smooth ergodic theory for flows with singularities.
Statistical properties of partially hyperbolic systems: existence and uniqueness of equilibrium measures, large deviation properties, decay of correlations.
Limit theorems in deterministic and random dynamical systems: escape ra…
Frank Moore
Professor · Wake Forest University
I am primarily interested in homological questions arising from commutative algebra, as well as questions in non-commutative algebra inspired by the commutative theory. I also enjoy developing software to help in experimenting with questions in algebra.
Gale Sigal
Professor of English · Wake Forest University
Medieval Poetry, The Legend of Arthur, British Victorian Literature, Medievalism, Chaucer, Middle English Poetry, Translation Studies, The History of Emotions
Gary Gunderson
Professor of Faith and Health of the Public · School of Divinity
Gary Gunderson is a Professor of Faith and Health of the Public at Wake Forest University, holding appointments in both the School of Divinity and the School of Medicine. He also serves as Vice President of FaithHealth for Atrium Wake Forest Health, where his work focuses on inte…
Giorgi Nikolaishvili
Faculty · Wake Forest University
Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Computational Economics
Greg Stewart
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research; Department Chair for Management; Thomas K. Hearn, Jr. Professor; Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Grey Ballard
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
High Performance Tensor Computations, Constrained Low-Rank Approximation for Scalable Data Analytics, Communication-Avoiding Algorithms, Practical Fast Matrix Multiplication, Visualizing Parallel Algorithms
Guy Emerson Mount
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
African Diaspora, slavery, emancipation, Jim Crow, colonialism, American empire, the Atlantic World, racial capitalism, critical mixed race studies, Afro-Asian solidarities, peace studies, and radical Black politics
Hana Brown
Professor · Wake Forest College
Dr. Brown’s research examines the political origins and political consequences of social inequalities. She uses an array of qualitative and historical methods to understand the effects of political actors and institutions on racial inequality, the effects of immigration and raci…
Heidi Robinson
Associate Professor of the Practice · Wake Forest University
Heidi Robinson is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. She holds an MA in Counseling from Wake Forest University and has co-presented on enhancing professional identity through service learning at a counselor education c…
Herman Rapaport
Reynolds Professor of English · Wake Forest University
Early Modern Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Hussein Abdeltawab
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
My research focuses on power system modernization, with a specific emphasis on smart grid technologies, energy management, renewable energy integration, energy storage, and distributed energy resources. I leverage cutting-edge techniques such as artificial intelligence, deep lear…
Ian Taplin
Professor · Wake Forest College
Work relations in the US coal industry; evolution of post-World War II industrial relations; managerial behavior in the workplace; US clothing industry; work organization practices; organizational change; North Carolina wine industry; entrepreneurial activity; Napa Valley wine in…
J'Nese Williams
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
J’Nese Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Wake Forest University. Her research focuses on the history of science from the 18th through 20th centuries, particularly the role of botanic gardens and plant specimens in the British Empire. Her current p…
J. Moisés García-Rentería
Assistant Professor, Writing
Latin American Indigenous Studies
Latino Decolonial Thought
Cultural Rhetorics
Rhetorical Theory
Critical Pedagogy
J.K. Curry
Professor, Theatre History · Wake Forest University
J.K. Curry is a Professor of Theatre History at Wake Forest University, where she also directs productions for the university theatre program. Her work includes directing musical theater, such as the university's production of Hairspray, and she has participated in professional c…
Jackie Krasas
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences · Wake Forest University
Social inequalities; contingent and temporary work; sexual harassment; women in STEM; work and family; motherhood
Jackie Sheridan
Director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program · Wake Forest College
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jackson Brown
Dean's Office Fellow · Wake Forest College
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jaelynn Oh
Assistant Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jake Ruddiman
Associate Professor
Jake Ruddiman is an Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on early American history, particularly the American Revolution, with interests including youth and military service, as well as the experiences of soldiers and slavery during the R…
Jane Caldwell
Professor of Ancient Studies · Wake Forest College
Jane Caldwell is a Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Services and Assistant to the Dean of the College at Wake Forest University, where she has worked since 1999. Her role focuses on student-athlete services and academic support within the university's athlet…
Janet Bennett
Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Intercultural Communication Institute and the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication · Intercultural Communication Institute
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Janine Jennings
Associate Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research encompasses several areas. First, I am interested in the cognitive changes that occur as we grow older. In particular, my work explores declines in memory and attention in cognitively healthy older adults and in older individuals who have been classified as having Mil…
Jarrod Atchison
John Kevin Medica Director of Debate and Professor of Communication
argumentation, rhetorical theory & criticism, and American public address
Jarrod Whitaker
Professor, Chair of the Department · Wake Forest University
Asian Religions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism, theory and method courses on religion, ritual, and gender
Jason Wilkinson
Assistant Director
Jason Wilkinson is the Assistant Director of Employer Experience at the Wake Forest University School of Business. His role focuses on employer relations and engagement within the business school.
Jeff Bills-Solomon
Associate Professor, Literature · Wake Forest University
American Literature 1865-present
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Visual Narratives
Creative Writing
Jefferson Holdridge
Professor of English | Director of Wake Forest University Press · Wake Forest University
Irish literature from Swift to contemporary period, with particular emphasis on W.B.Yeats, 20th-Century and Contemporary Irish Poetry; Late Victorian and Modernist poetry; Aesthetics
Jeffery D. Lerner
Professor
Jeffery D. Lerner is a Professor in the Department of History at Wake Forest University. His research interests are in history, and he has authored books published in September 2020.
Jenelle Conaway
Assistant Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jenn Johnston
Career Coach · Wake Forest University
Jenn Johnston is a Career Coach at Wake Forest University’s Office of Personal & Career Development. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in Counseling from Wake Forest University.
Jennifer Claggett
AT&T Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jennifer Erway
Professor of Mathematics · Wake Forest University
Computational Mathematics, Numerical Optimization, Computational PDEs (finite element methods), Numerical Linear Algebra
Jennifer Greiman
Professor, English · Wake Forest University
18th & 19th-century U.S. literature
Political and democratic theory
Herman Melville
Jessica Richard
Associate Professor of English · Wake Forest University
I specialize in eighteenth-century British fiction. I have published on gambling in eighteenth-century British culture, Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, and polar exploration. My current book project is on forms of knowledge in Jane Austen's works. I am a co-editor of the Maria Ed…
Jia Li
Robinson-Lightcap Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jill Y. Crainshaw
Assistant Professor of Black Studies · School of Divinity
poetic theology, liturgical scholarship, silence, justice, embodiment, theological formation, faculty mentoring, strategic teaching and research initiatives, self-awareness, spiritual intentionality, justice-rooted religious leadership, liturgical writing, feminist leadership, cr…
Jim Willis
Dr. Dale Martin Faculty Fellow; Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jinyoung Seo
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics and Macro-finance
Jo Lowe
Instructional Technologist
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Joanna Ruocco
Professor of English in Creative Writing | Co-Director, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series | Chair of the Editorial Board, Fiction Collective Two · Wake Forest University
20th and 21st century innovative fiction and cross-genre texts
Popular romance
Narrative theory
Joaquin Urrego
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Urban Economics, Economics of Crime, Policing & Crime Patterns, Urban Development & Public Policy
John A. Gemmer
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Butler
Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John J. Curley
Professor, Department Chair · Wake Forest University
Modern and Contemporary Art
John Karabelas
Assistant Professor of the Practice · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John Llewellyn
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
John Llewellyn is an Associate Professor of Communications at Wake Forest University, where he has been a faculty member since 1990. His teaching focuses on rhetoric and organizational communication, and he has also served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Spee…
John M. Oksanish
Associate Professor (2011) · Wake Forest University
Ancient notions of expertise and authority in civic life; prose literature of the late Republic and early Empire; Vergil's pastoral poems; universal historiography; Vitruvius's De architectura and its ethos of commemorative expertise within the context of Augustan literature and …
John Petrocelli
Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
I am a social psychologist and my research involves experimental social cognition and judgment and decision making. My specific research interests include attitude strength and persuasion, bullshitting, counterfactual thinking and metacognition.
Attitude Strength and Persuasion…
John Sumanth
James Farr Faculty Fellow in Leadership and Organizational Development; Associate Professor of Management; Associate, ACLC · School of Business
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
John T. Dalton
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
International Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, and Economic History
Jonathan Herbert
Assistant Professor of Theatre
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jonathan Pinder
Associate Professor of Management · School of Business
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Joseph Soares
Professor · Wake Forest College
Joseph A. Soares is a Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University. His academic background includes graduate study at Harvard University, where he was a Krupp Fellow of the Center for European Studies and a US Congress Jacob Javits Fellow, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Nuf…
Judith Madera
Associate Professor of Literature · Wake Forest University
African American and Caribbean literatures from the eighteenth century to present; race; critical place studies; Pan-American intellectual history; contemporary environmental movements
Justin Catanoso
Professor of the Practice · Wake Forest University
Reporting, writing and editing
Regional economic development and commentary
Travel writing
Justin Green
Professor of the Practice/Head Debate Coach
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Kaitlin Moore
Assistant Professor, Literature · Wake Forest University
Indigenous Literatures, Ecopoetics, Environmental Humanities, Literatures of the Pacific and Oceania, New Media and Game Studies, Science and Literature
Karsen Green
Assistant Professor, Design & Production · Wake Forest University
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Katherine A. Shaner
Associate Professor of New Testament · School of Divinity
In classrooms, in faith communities, in the public square, Shaner challenges leaders to listen for the voices of people who are usually left out of the stories in our biblical texts and in our histories of justice. She works with archaeological materials from modern-day Turkey, G…
Katherine Albanese
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
Katherine Albanese is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. She holds a BA in Chemistry with minors in Art History and Psychology from Wake Forest University (2016). Her professional activities include serving as a s…
Kaylin Gess
Postgraduate Teacher-Scholar Fellow, Design and Interim Director of Theatre · Wake Forest University
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Kelly Nichols
Instructional Assistant
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Ken Bechtel
Associate Professor · Wake Forest College
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Kenneth Kishida
Professor of Biology · Wake Forest University
Neurobiology of human decision-making, learning, and consciousness; Neuromodulatory signaling in humans (e.g., dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine); Neurocomputational representations of human experience.
Kenny Ford
Assistant Professor · School of Business
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Kevin Frazier
Associate Professor, Design & Production · Wake Forest University
His research interests include new work and exploring under-represented perspectives on classic stories.
Kevin Jung
Associate Professor of the Practice of Social Science · School of Divinity
His primary research interests encompass a broad range of metaethical and normative issues, including moral epistemology, value theory, moral psychology, action theory, and the philosophy of religion.
Kevin MacDonnell
Assistant Professor, Literature
Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Empire and Colonialism
Environmental Humanities
Science and Technology Studies
Kimberly Wortmann
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Islamic and African Religious Studies, transregional networks of knowledge exchange, transmission, and production between East Africa and the Arabian Gulf
Kline Harrison
Associate Provost for Global Affairs; Kemper Professor of Business · School of Business
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Kyana Young
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Water quality, water treatment efficacy, and public health.
Kyla Hollingsworth
AVP & Executive Director, Pre-College Programs · Office of Personal & Career Development
Kyla Hollingsworth is the Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Pre-College Programs at Wake Forest University, where she also serves within the Office of Personal & Career Development. Her work focuses on preparing middle and high school students for college and car…
Kyla Hollingsworth
AVP & Executive Director, Pre-College Programs · Office of Personal & Career Development
Kyla Hollingsworth is the Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Pre-College Programs at Wake Forest University. In this role, she leads initiatives designed to prepare middle and high school students for college and career success, with a focus on social justice, lea…
Kyle Luthy
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest University
The Luthy Lab investigates field-deployable unmanned distributed sensor systems and robotics. These systems are currently focused on the long-term monitoring of maritime environments as well as distributed sensing of fires throughout the atmospheric boundary layer.
Lara Kammrath
Associate Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research interests are in the area of close relationships, with specific interests on the topics of social self-regulation, social perceptions and beliefs, and social support seeking. Typically each student that works with me carves out some unique topic within the area of clo…
Lauren Beam
Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal and Career Development · Wake Forest University
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Lauren E. L. Lowman
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
The Lowman lab studies how spatial and temporal changes in water availability impact overall ecosystem health, productivity and sustainability.
Laurie Schaefer
Instructional Assistant
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Leah K. Lakdawala
Associate Professor and Clark Family Faculty Fellow · Wake Forest University
Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Leah K. Lakdawala
Associate Professor and Clark Family Faculty Fellow · Wake Forest University
Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Leah McCoy
Professor, Mathematics Education
Technology tools for teaching mathematics and equity issues in mathematics education
Linda Nielsen
Professor, Adolescent & Educational Psychology · Wake Forest University
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Lisa Blee
Professor · Wake Forest University
American Indian and settler politics, historical narratives, and commemorations in the U.S. West
Lisa Bryant
Associate Director · Office of Personal & Career Development
Lisa Bryant is the Associate Director at the Office of Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University, where she supports the university's mission of empowering students to flourish in work and life.
Lisa Dragoni
Caron-Lightcap Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of Management · School of Business
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Lisa Kiang
Professor of Psychology · Wake Forest University
My research reflects the intersection of self and identity, family and social relationships, and race and ethnicity. Within this broad framework, the bulk of my work has focused on ethnic-racial identity among adolescents from minoritized backgrounds, and how its development is s…
Lisa Simmons
Associate Director - Marketing & Communications · Office of Personal & Career Development
Lisa Simmons is the Associate Director of Marketing & Communications at Wake Forest University’s Office of Personal & Career Development. In this role, she supports the office’s mission of empowering students to flourish in work and life.
Lucas Johnston
Professor of Religion and Environment · Wake Forest University
The four main foci of my research program related to religions are: 1) the politics of environmental social movements and their normative elements; 2) the relationship between Western and non-Western scientific methodologies; 3) the religious dimensions of secular social movement…
Lucy Alford
Associate Professor, Literature · Wake Forest University
20th & 21st Century American Poetry, Comparative Poetics, Literature & The Mind, Race, Class, & Gender, Ecological Poetics
Lynn Neal
Easley Professor of Religious Studies · Wake Forest University
American religious history, religion and popular culture, religion and fashion
Marina Krcmar
Professor · Wake Forest University
how children and adolescents use and are affected by media; social media; relationship between media and moral reasoning, especially in children
Mark Curtis
Department Chair, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Environmental, Labor, Energy, and Public Economics
Mark Vail
Judicial Liaison · Wake Forest College
Mark Vail is the Worrell Chair of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, where he also serves as Judicial Liaison. His research focuses on comparative political economy, particularly economic governance, solidarity, and contentious politics in advanced demo…
Marty Malloy
Faculty Director of the Wall Street Prep Track Program; Professor of the Practice · School of Business
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Mary Dalton
Professor of Communication
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Mary Foskett
Wake Forest Kahle Professor of Religious Studies · Wake Forest University
New Testament Studies
Meg Zulick
Associate Professor
Religion in American Public Discourse, Classical Theory, Narrative Theory and Interactionism, especially the theories of Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin
Melanie L. Harris
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
Race, religion, gender and environmental ethics
Melissa Rogers
Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Faith, Law, and Public Policy · School of Divinity
Melissa Rogers is the Distinguished Scholar in Residence in Faith, Law, and Public Policy at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, where she also serves as director of the school's Center for Religion and Public Affairs. She is additionally a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the…
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