Wake Forest names Corey D.B. Walker Dean of the Divinity School
This message is sent on behalf of President Susan R. Wente and Provost Michele Gillespie.
Dear students, faculty and staff,
Following the completion of a national search, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Corey D.B. Walker has been named Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, effective immediately.
Dr. Walker is a distinguished scholar of religion and Wake Forest Professor of Humanities and has served as interim dean for the school since January. He is an ordained American Baptist clergyperson who preaches and teaches in congregations and universities across the nation and has published broadly on African American religion and philosophy, African American history and culture, and religion and American public life. He was appointed a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 2023-2024 academic year. He has also been instrumental in the University’s Strategic Framework process, serving as Vice-Chair for the Core Planning Team.
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Faculty and staff books: September and October 2021
Congratulations to Wake Forest University faculty and staff from the Reynolda Campus who reported publishing books in September and October 2021:
- Crainshaw, Jill Y. (Divinity). Writing Work of the People: Liturgical Writing as Spiritual, Theological, and Prophetic Work. Church Publishing. 2021.
- Hellyer, Robert. (History). Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups. Columbia University Press. 2021.
- Lather, Amy. (Classics). Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms series). Edinburgh University Press. 2021.
- Mitra, Ananda. (Communication). Modern Day Surveillance Ecosystem and Impacts on Privacy. Information Science Reference. 2021.
- Palmiter, Alan R. (Law). Examples & Explanations for Securities Regulation, 8th ed. Wolters Kluwer. 2021.
- Tribble, Mary. (Advancement). Pious Ambitions: Sally Merriam Wait’s Mission South, 1813-1831. University of Tennessee Press. 2021.
- Virgil, Steven M. (Law), & Sherri Lawson Clark (Anthropology). Poverty Law and Advocacy in America: Readings and Materials. Carolina Academic Press. 2021.
- Whitley, M. Stanley, & Luis González. (Spanish). Gramática para la composición with website, 3rd ed. Georgetown University Press. 2021.
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Faculty books: October 2020
Alderson, Kevin G., & Samuel T. Gladding. (Counseling). A Concise Guide to Opioid Addiction for Counselors. American Counseling Association. 2020.
Clendinning, Elizabeth A. (Music). American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination. University of Illinois Press. 2020.
Roberts, Keith A., & David Yamane. (Sociology). Religion in Sociological Perspective, 7th ed. SAGE. 2020.
Senior, John, & Matthew Floding, Eds. (Divinity). Empower: A Guide for Supervisor-Mentors in Theological Field Education. Rowman & Littlefield. 2020.
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Faculty books: August 2020
Clendinning, Elizabeth A. (Music). American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination. University of Illinois Press. 2020.
Jones, Shonda R., & Pamela R. Lightsey, Eds. (Divinity). Transforming Service: Reflections of Student Service Professionals in Theological Education. Pickwick Publications. 2020.
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Faculty books: December 2019
Miguel-Prendes, Sol. (Spanish & Italian). Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain. The University of North Carolina Press. 2019.
Neal, Lynn S. (Study of Religions). Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America. New York University Press. 2019.
Rogers, Melissa. (Divinity). Faith in American Public Life. Forward by E.J. Dionne Jr. Baylor University Press. 2019.
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