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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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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
Adrienne Shank
· North Carolina State University
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Ajay Patel
Department Chair for Finance & Economics; Thomas S. Goho Chair in Finance; Professor · School of Business
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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
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Alyse Bertenthal
Associate Professor of Law · School of Law
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anthony Marsh
Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences · Wake Forest College
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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…
Aoshu Zhong
PhD Student · Wake Forest University
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Araceli (Sally) Perez-Ramos
Associate Director, Market Readiness & Employment · Wake Forest University
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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
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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
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Ben Coates
Associate Professor · Wake Forest University
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Ben King
Director of Interdisciplinary Programs; Professor of the Practice · School of Business
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Betsy Schneider
Director, Pre-College Programs · Office of Personal & Career Development
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Bill Marcum
Wall Street Partners Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor · School of Business
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Bingxuan Guo
Assistant Professor · School of Business
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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
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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
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Brian Mendenhall
Senior Associate Director of STEM Career Education · Office of Personal & Career Development
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Brittany P. Battle
Associate Professor · Wake Forest College
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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
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Cal Garrett
Assistant Professor · Wake Forest College
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Caleigh McElwee Lepler
Associate Director, Career Education & Coaching · Wake Forest University
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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
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Charles Iacovou
Dean of the School of Professional Studies & Vice Provost of Charlotte Programs; Professor of Management · School of Business
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 “…
Chu (Alex) Yu
PhD Student · Wake Forest University
Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
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
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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
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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
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David Taylor
Assistant Dean for Global Study Away Programs; Center for Global Programs and Studies · Wake Forest College
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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
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Donell Moore
Associate Director, Career Education and Coaching; Professional Opportunities and Readiness · Wake Forest University
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Doug Beets
Professor · School of Business
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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. Ashley Hairston
Ewing Lamont Research Professor · Wake Forest College
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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
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Ellen Kirkman
Loubat Professor of American Archaeology · Wake Forest University
Noncommutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Homological Algebra
Elsie H. Shogren
PhD Student · Wake Forest University
My research centers around understanding how environmental, behavioral, and genetic variation influences evolution and speciation in birds. I am especially interested in drivers of divergence and consequences of hybridization in closely related taxa. Using field observations and …
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 King Watts
PhD Student
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Eric Park
Assistant Professor · School of Business
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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
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