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Faculty promotions announced 2021

Congratulations to Wake Forest faculty who have received promotions, effective July 1.

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

Mollie Rose Canzona, Communication
Sherri Lawson Clark, Anthropology
Andrea Echeverria, Spanish and Italian
Andrius Gališanka, Politics and International Affairs
Elizabeth Gandolfo, School of Divinity
Staci A. White Hepler, Mathematics and Statistics

Promotion to Associate Professor of Accounting with Tenure

Lauren Reid, Accountancy School of Business

Promotion to Full Professor

Luis H. González, Spanish and Italian
José Luis Venegas, Spanish and Italian

Promotion to Associate Professor of Law

Meghan Boone, School of Law
Marie-Amelie George, School of Law

Promotion to Associate Librarian

Meghan Webb, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Librarian

Jeff Eller, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Carrie Johnston, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Teaching Professor

Elizabeth Anthony, French Studies
Jennifer Gentry, Art
Adam Kadlac, Philosophy

Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor

Melissa Maffeo, Psychology

Promotion to Professor of the Practice

Veronique McNelly, French Studies
Rebekah Morris, Spanish and Italian
Sharon Woodard, Health and Exercise Science

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Faculty Drive neighborhood remains an integral part of the Wake Forest community

This is a guest post from Alex Abrams, communications coordinator in the Office of the Dean of the College:

A large historical marker stands at the corner of Faculty Drive and Timberlake Lane, just across the street from where Wake Forest University’s Department of Biology is housed inside Winston Hall.

The words “Welcome To Historic Wake Forest Neighborhood – Est. 1956” are etched into the metal historical marker, which has been painted old gold and black like other signs posted around campus.

Just past the marker, one- and two-story houses line the five quiet streets that make up the neighborhood. The houses range in style, with some exteriors made of brick and others covered with wood. Large trees in each yard provide both shade on a hot afternoon and a limb for the occasional tree swing.

Martha Allman, WFU’s Dean of Admissions, got a sense of the neighborhood during her four years living on campus as an undergraduate student. Her freshman advisor had a house on Royall Drive and hosted a dinner for students during Orientation.

“I had this very idealized feeling about that neighborhood and how wonderful it would be to live there,” Allman said.

In 2001, Allman and her husband moved their two young daughters into a yellow house on Faculty Drive. Their neighbors include a “Who’s Who” list of WFU administrators, professors, and staff members who also enjoy living on campus, walking to work, and hosting students in their homes.

The Historic Wake Forest Neighborhood was started the same year WFU moved its campus to Winston-Salem as a place for faculty who had relocated to live. It has since grown into a tight-knit community where dozens of university employees have raised their children just down the street from Wait Chapel for more than 50 years.

“Over here faculty members are our next-door neighbors, and the fact that one faculty member was a historian, another one was a psychologist, another one was a physicist, that’s tremendously important,” said Ed Wilson, the longtime English professor and Provost who is affectionately known as Mr. Wake Forest.

“And of course it made our children grow up with the idea that it was important to go to college, and if they could, it was important to do well.”

Wilson still lives in the same four-bedroom house that he and his wife, Emily, built on Timberlake Lane in 1964. He raised his three children there. He can still remember the different routes he used to walk every day to reach his favorite spots on campus, including his office in Tribble Hall.

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July 2016 faculty milestones

See a list of faculty milestones in July 2016: Read more

July 2015 comings and goings

See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in July 2015:

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