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College faculty retirees, 2020

This is the final post in a five-part series honoring College faculty who have retired in
2021 and 2020. Wake Forest University and the Undergraduate College honor these incredible teacher-scholars who retired in 2020 and their lasting legacies: John Friedenberg, Brian Gorelick, Judy Kem, G.E. “Rick” Matthews, Tom Phillips, Catherine “Cathy” Seta, Kathy Smith and Alan Williams.


Plageman awarded 2018 NEH fellowship

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced, recently, that it has awarded a fellowship to Nate Plageman, associate professor of history, to support his completion of a book currently titled “State Planning and City Life in Western Ghana, 1900-1970.”  His was one of 74 fellowships for 2018 announced by the NEH.


Conference on Muslim identity in South Asia to be held Sept. 15-16

A two-day workshop/conference to focus on the issue of Muslim identity in South Asia will be held Sept. 15-16 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art.  The workshop is entitled “Locality, Genre, and Muslim Belonging in South Asia. ” It is organized by M. Raisur Rahman, associate professor of history at Wake Forest, and Razak Khan, research fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies in Gottingen, Germany.


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