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Mazumder appointed Dean of Baylor's Hankamer School of Business

Sandeep Mazumder, former professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest, has been selected as The William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of Baylor’s nationally ranked Hankamer School of Business. His appointment is effective July 1.

Mazumder joined Wake Forest in 2009 and became chair in 2017. He served a one-year appointment as Chair of Chairs for Wake Forest College, representing all department chairs with the Dean, and he was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2020.

Read the release from Baylor »

Faculty promotions announced

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

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

Kristen Beavers, Health and Exercise Science

Erin Binkley, Counseling

Elizabeth Clendinning, Music

Mark Curtis, Economics

Lisa Dragoni, School of Business

Amanda Gengler, Sociology

Kristina Gupta, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Seth Hayden, Counseling

Stephanie Koscak, History

Tin Cheuk Leung, Economics

Sarah McDonald, Biology

Jennifer Rogers, Counseling

Promotion to Full Professor

J.K. Curry, Theatre and Dance

Brook Davis, Theatre and Dance

Patricia Dos Santos, Chemistry

Jennifer Erway, Mathematics and Statistics

Kevin Jung, School of Divinity

Oana Jurchescu, Physics

Sandeep Mazumder, Economics

Soledad Miguel-Prendes, Spanish and Italian

Shannon Mihalko, Health and Exercise Science

Jarrod Whitaker, Study of Religions

Promotion to Full Professor of Law

Chris Coughlin, School of Law

Promotion to Associate Dean

Mary Beth Lock, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Associate Librarian

Stephanie Bennett, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Librarian

Craig Fansler, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Assistant Librarian

Ashelee Gerald Hill, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor

Diana Arnett, Biology

Tammy Cashwell, Counseling

Allison Forti, Counseling

Laura Giovanelli, English

Molly Knight, German and Russian

Promotion to Teaching Professor

Tom Brister, Politics and International Affairs

Steve Gunkel, Sociology

Macroeconomics conference to be held here in August

Sandeep Mazumder

The 14th Annual Conference of Macroeconomists from Liberal Arts Colleges will be held at Wake Forest on Aug. 7 and 8.

At the conference, macroeconomists from liberal arts schools nationwide will gather to present their research to one another in an effort to promote high-quality research and collaboration, according to Sandeep Mazumder, associate professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics.  Mazumder is the conference’s lead organizer.

He added that the conference is also aimed at helping junior faculty members and faculty members from under-represented groups.

Some of the colleges and universities represented will include Pomona College, Sewanee: The University of the South, Davidson College, Vassar College and the University of Richmond.

Last year’s conference was held at Davidson College.

For more information, visit the conference’s website.

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Provost Office awards grants

The Provost’s Office awarded the following grants for fall 2015:

Provost’s Fund for a Vibrant Campus

Tom Phillips, Words Awake2! A Literary Festival and Celebration of Wake Forest Writers and Writing, $5,000

Kevin Bowen, Wind Ensemble Commission and Guest Artist Residency for WFU Emerging Wind Band Composer Series, $ 4,000.

Melissa Harris-Perry and Marianne Magjuka, Ari Berman Address to Campus Student Leaders on Voting -Rights Issues, $3,868

Jeff Holdridge and Ryan Shirey, Campus Visit and Public Reading by Ciaran Carson, $2,992

Elizabeth Clendinning and Brandon Robinson, Perspectives on Integration: Music at Little Rock Central High and Beyond, $2,000

Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence

Christina Soriano, Dani Kim-Shapiro, Stephen Krichevsky, Kate Mewhinney, Aging Re-imagined: Art Science and Policy, $10,000

Mary Dalton, Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies Conference, $10,000

Sandeep Mazunder, Liberal Arts Macroeconomic Workshop, $5,574.34

Jessie Laurita-Spanglet, Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Project with Performance Outcomes, $4,750

Provost’s Fund for Academic Innovation

Sunggu Yang and Veronice Miles, Festival Week of Prophetic Ministry, $5,000

Hu Womack, Writers Camp @ZSR, $1,496

Faculty Fellowships and promotions

Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty who have been awarded fellowships and recieved promotions.

Wake Forest Faculty Fellowships______________________________

The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship is a program of financial support designed to honor our best teacher-scholars. Recipients are:
Rebecca Alexander (CHM), The F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellowship<
Laura Aull (ENG), The Dunn-Riley Faculty Fund Fellowship
Christa Colyer (CHM), The Robert & Debra Lee Faculty Fellowship
Mary Dalton (COM), The Reinsch/Pierce Family Fellowship
Katy Harriger (POL), The Tatum Family Fund Faculty Fellowship
Omaar Hena (ENG), The Young Family Faculty Fellowship
Peter Kairoff (MUS), The Denton Family Faculty Fellowship
John Pickel (ART), The Hoak Family Faculty Fellowship
Albert Rives (CHM), The Gale Family Faculty Fellowship
Michael Sloan (CLA), The Kenyon Family Faculty Fellowship
Eric Stottlemyer (ENG), The Bitove Family Fund Faculty Fellowship
Robert Whaples (ECN), The Hough Family Faculty Fellowship
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