Search Committee formed to identify Dean of the College
A search committee has been formed to identify the next Dean of the College, succeeding Michele Gillespie, whose term as Provost begins on July 1, 2022. Tony Marsh, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Health and Exercise Science, will serve as interim Dean of the College while the search is underway.
The search committee will be co-chaired by Gillespie and Dean Franco, Winifred W. Palmer Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute. The full Search Committee membership includes faculty, staff, and students, as well as Wake Forest alumni and parents with Hannah Kehaya from the College Board of Visitors and Curt Farmer from the Board of Trustees.
Pilar Agudelo (’23), Politics and International Affairs Major
Landon Bradshaw (’23), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major
Elizabeth Clendinning, Associate Professor of Music
Nicole Dalzell, Assistant Teaching Professor of Statistics
Curt Farmer (’84, MBA ’91, P ’16), Board of Trustees
Errin Fulp, Professor of Computer Science
Stavroula Glezakos, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Hannah Kehaya (‘91, P’20), College Board of Visitors
Shea Kidd Brown, Vice President for Campus Life
Miles Silman, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Professor of Conservation Biology
Michelle Steward, Associate Professor of Marketing, School of Business
Timo Thonhauser, Wright Family Professor of Physics
José Luis Venegas, Professor of Spanish, Director of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Jonathan Walton, Dean of the School of Divinity
Betina Wilkinson, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Anna Willis, Academic Coordinator
Susan R. Wente, President (ex officio)
Sam Perrotta (’12), chief of staff in the Provost’s Office, will staff the committee. A search firm will be selected through an RFP process in the coming weeks. Updates will be shared with the community on search firm selection and engagement opportunities, including forums and an informational website to collect campus feedback.
To share input with the committee directly before those opportunities, please email comments to wfucollegedean@wfu.edu.
