College faculty retirees: Roniger, Ross, Simon, Thompson, Wiethaus
A guest post from the College
This is the fourth in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in 2021 and 2020. Enjoy the linked profiles, written by faculty colleagues within their departments, honoring these incredible teacher-scholars and their lasting legacies.
- Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies and Politics and International Affairs
- James “Jim” H. Ross, Associate Professor of the Practice of Health and Exercise Science
- Robin W. Simon, Professor of Sociology
- Clark Thompson, Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy
- Ulrike Wiethaus, Professor of Religious Studies and American Ethnic Studies
Categories: Faculty News, Guest Post, Inside WFU
Wake Forest Fellows announced for 2018-19
Wake Forest Fellows, 2018-19, left to right: Sarah York, Alisha Hartley, Dominique Tucker, Clay Hamilton, Jayson Pugh, Joseph Ford, Matthew Connor, Sarah Ottenjohn.
Eight seniors will remain at Wake Forest after graduation in May as Wake Forest Fellows. They will work throughout the campus community, including in the offices of the President, the Provost and the Dean of the College.
Since 2008, the Wake Forest Fellows program has provided exceptional Wake Forest college graduates with the opportunity to work in higher education administration for a year. Each fellow will serve as a full-time Wake Forest staff member, starting this summer. In addition to working with top administrators, the fellows will participate in leadership activities and interact with faculty, staff and students to learn about the inner workings of higher education.
The Wake Forest Fellows for 2018-19 are:
- Campus Life: Alisha Hartley, Monroe; major, Psychology; minors, Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise and African studies
- Dean of the College: Matthew Connor, High Point; major, Religious Studies with a double major in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Information Systems: Sarah Ottenjohn, Cincinnati, Ohio; major, Mathematical Statistics with a double major in Spanish
- Office of Personal & Career Development: Sarah York, Charlotte; major, Communication (Health-Science Concentration); minors: Journalism and Creative Writing
- President’s Office: Joseph Ford, Winston-Salem; major, History
- Provost’s Office: Jayson Pugh, Bronx, N.Y.; major, Sociology; minors, American Ethnic Studies and Theatre
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center: Dominique Tucker, Yorktown, Va.; major, Biology (Microbiology concentration); minors: Chemistry and Anthropology
- Wake Downtown: Clayton Hamilton, Spartanburg, S.C.; major, Music; minors: Biology and Chemistry
Alumni of the Wake Forest Fellows program have pursued careers in many fields, including law, medicine, public policy and more. Fellows have since received prestigious academic honors such as Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.
Categories: Inside WFU
Wake Forest to host N.C. Sociological Association
This is a guest post from the Department of Sociology:
Steve Gunkel
The annual meeting of the North Carolina Sociological Association (NCSA) will be hosted by the University’s Sociology Department on Feb. 12 at Wake Forest Biotech Place in Innovation Quarter. NCSA President-Elect Steve Gunkel, associate teaching professor of sociology at Wake Forest, has organized the statewide conference on behalf of the NCSA with this year’s theme “Doing Justice: Community, Social, or Criminal?”
Several panels address issues related to justice such as mass incarceration and prisoner re-entry, politics, policing, health disparities, and wrongful conviction and the plight of exonerees. Several Wake Forest University students are serving as goodwill “ambassadors” to facilitate the conference.
Many Wake students are presenting their research in sociology including: the impact of residential segregation; internet depictions of pro-/anti-vaccine sentiments; cross-national approaches to intimate partner violence; post-graduation aspirations of first-generation college students; service-based learning experiences; state-corporate crime and human trafficking; and deviant activities within religious cults.
Support for the conference has been provided by the Office of the Provost, the Dean of the College and the American Ethnic Studies Program.
Categories: University Announcement
July 2014 faculty milestones
See a list of faculty milestones in July 2014:
Categories: Faculty News
Parent, Wiethaus publish book with multiple WFU authors
Anthony Parent and Ulrike Wiethaus of Wake Forest have published a book which includes their own work as well as that of many other Wake Forest authors: “Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History.” It was published by Peter Lang Publishing in April.
Parent is a professor of history and American ethnic studies, and Wiethaus is a professor of religion and American ethnic studies, as well as being a 2013 Community Solutions Fellow with the Institute for Public Engagement.
Parent and Wiethaus wrote the introduction (“Un-doing Southern Silences”), and Parent wrote two chapters: “‘Home’ and ‘House’ in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and “Slave Songs as a Public Poetics of Resistance.”
Other Wake Forest authors and their chapter titles:
- Beth Hopkins, director of outreach for the School of Law, “The Making of an African American Family”
- Margaret Bender, associate professor of anthropology, “Language Loss and Resilience in Cherokee Medicinal Texts”
- Margaret Zulick, associate professor of communication, “The Suppression of Native American Presence in the Protestant Myth of America”
- Nina Maria Lucas; associate professor, director of dance, artistic director of the Dance Company; “Dancing as Protest: Three African American Choreographers, 1940–1960”
- Christy Buchanan, professor of psychology; Joseph Grzywacz, associate director for research, Center for Worker Health, associate professor, department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine; “African-American Mothers of Adolescents: Resilience and Strengths”
- Stephen Boyd, John Allen Easley Professor of Religion, “The Visceral Roots of Racism”
- Ronald Neal, visiting assistant professor of religion, “Race, Class, and the Traumatic Legacy of Southern Masculinity”
- Ana-Maria Wahl, associate professor of sociology; and Steven Gunkel, lecturer in sociology; “‘Living High on the Hog’? Race, Class and Union Organizing in Rural North Carolina”
More publications
In addition to his work on this book, Gunkel has recently published three entries in the Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime (Sage; 2nd Edition; July 2013): “Bernard Madoff,” Insider Trading Sanctions Act,” and “Times Beach Contamination.”
Categories: Faculty News
