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Faculty retirements 2020-21

The following Wake Forest University Reynolda Campus faculty members retired in 2020-21 (unless otherwise specified). This year’s retirees were honored during the 2021 Commencement ceremony.

College faculty profiles and citations will be shared in a five-part series in the coming days. Read more

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Thomas Frank appointed associate dean for continuing studies

Thomas Frank

This is a guest post from the Office of the Provost and the Graduate School:

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of University Professor Thomas Frank as Associate Dean for Continuing Studies, effective July 1, 2018.  Dean Frank also will act as director for the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) Program and the Lifelong Learning Program.  Dr. Frank most recently served in the Department of History, teaching courses on religious utopian communities, liberal arts colleges, and contemporary issues of conservation of the natural and built landscape.  He served as Chair of the Department of History from 2014-17.

A graduate of Harvard College (B.A.) and Emory University (M.Div. and Ph.D.), Dr. Frank completed a Masters in Heritage Preservation at Georgia State University in 2006. He was on the faculty of Emory University for 23 years before joining the Wake Forest faculty in 2010.

Please join us in congratulating Tom!

Department Chairs and administrative assistants for 2015-16

Please find below a list of academic department chairs and their administrative assistants for 2015-2016, as of July 1, 2015:

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Thursdays at Byrum Center

Thursdays at Byrum HallThe Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions invite faculty and staff to Thursdays at the Porter B. Byrum Welcome and Admissions Center on Oct. 11.

A wine and cheese reception will run from 4-4:30 p.m., followed by a program from 4:30-5:15 p.m. that will feature Thomas Frank, Dean Franco and Michele Gillespie.

Frank, professor of history and the winner of the 2012 Nathan and Julie Hatch Prize for Academic Excellence, will discuss will discuss how early Americans learned how to “do” democracy and how his experience at Oxford helped his research. This presentation explores the role of religious voluntarism in building the institutions of a free society.

Franco, associate professor of English, will discuss his book, Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969, and how Jewish American literature represents the recent history of domestic civil rights and opportunity and offers surprising responses to current dilemmas of international human rights and responsibility.

Gilespie, the Kahle Family Professor of History, will discuss her latest book, Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South, and what she learned about early 20th century society and politics in Winston-Salem and the North Carolina Piedmont.

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