Dates following names indicate period of service.
Umit Akinc (1982-2016)
Thomas H. Davis and Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Middle East Tech. (Ankara); MBA, Florida State; PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
John P. Anderson (1984-2010)
Professor Emeritus of Counseling
BS, MS, PhD, Georgia Tech; MBA, Alabama (Birmingham); MAEd, Wake Forest University
John L. Andronica (1969-2008)
Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
BA, Holy Cross; MA, Boston College; PhD, Johns Hopkins
Terry A. Baker (1998-2022)
Professor Emeritus of School of Business
BA, Miami; MS, Illinois; MBA, Chicago; PhD, Kentucky
Rajaram B. Baliga (1989-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BE, University of Madras; PGDBA, Indian Institute of Management; DBA, Kent State
Sarah E. Barbour (1985-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages
BA, Maryville; Diplôme de Langue et de Civilsation Françaises, Paris; MA, PhD, Cornell
James P. Barefield (1963-2004)
Wake Forest Professor Emeritus of History
BA, MA, Rice; PhD, Johns Hopkins
Richard C. Barnett (1961-1994)
Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Wake Forest University; MEd, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
John V. Baxley (1968-2004)
Wake Forest Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
BS, MS, Georgia Tech; PhD, University of Wisconsin
Michael Berry (1995-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Health & Exercise Science
BS, Jacksonville State University; MA, Southeastern Louisiana University; PhD, Texas A&M University
Debbie Best (1974-2023)
William L. Poteat Chaired Professor Emeritus of Psychology
BA, MA, Wake Forest University; PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Robert R. Bliss (2004-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Purdue; MBA, PhD, University of Chicago
Susan Harden Borwick (1982-2019)
Professor Emerita of Music
BM, BME, Baylor University; PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Stephen B. Boyd (1985-2022)
John Allen Easley Professor Emeritus of Study of Religions
BA, University of Tennessee; MDiv, Th.D., Harvard Divinity School
Holly Brower (2005-2021)
Professor Emerita of School of Business
BS, Wake Forest University; MS, Iowa State University; PhD, Purdue University
David G. Brown (1990-2003)
Provost Emeritus
AB, Denison; PhD, Princeton
Robert A. Browne (1980-2022)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BS, MS, Dayton University; PhD, Syracuse University
Jennifer Burg (1993-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
BA, Elizabethtown College; MA (English), MA (French), University of Florida; PhD, University of Central Florida
Richard D. Carmichael (1971-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics
BS, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, Duke
Christa G. Carollo (1985-2005)
Senior Lecturer Emerita of German
BA, UNC-Greensboro; MA, Duke
Jonathan H. Christman (1983-2016)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Theatre and Dance
AB, Franklin and Marshall; MFA, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
John E. Collins (1970-2007)
Professor Emeritus of Religion
BS, MS, Tennessee; MDiv, Southeastern Baptist Theo. Seminary; MA, PhD, Princeton
William E. Conner (1988-2022)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BA, University of Notre Dame; MS, PhD, Cornell University
Leon H. Corbett Jr. (1968-2002)
Vice President and Counsel Emeritus
BA, JD, Wake Forest University
Nancy J. Cotton (1977-2002)
Professor Emerita of English
BA, Texas; MA, Wisconsin; PhD, Columbia
Allin Cottrell (1989-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Economics
BA, Oxford (Merton College); PhD, Edinburgh
William L. Davis (1996-2022)
Professor Emeritus of School of Business
BA, Carson-Newman College; MA, Wake Forest University; PhD, Ohio State
Mary K. DeShazer (1982, 1987-2014)
Professor Emerita of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
BA, Western Kentucky; MA, Louisville; PhD, Oregon
Arun P. Dewasthali (1975-2012)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Bombay; MS, PhD, Delaware
Ronald V. Dimock Jr. (1970-2015)
Thurman D. Kitchin Professor Emeritus of Biology
BA, New Hampshire; MS, Florida State; PhD, California (Santa Barbara)
Patricia Dixon (1986-2018)
Senior Lecturer Emerita of Music
BM, NC School of the Arts; MM, UNC-Greensboro
Robert H. Dufort (1961-1999)
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
BA, PhD, Duke
John S. Dunkelberg (1983-2001)
Kemper Professor Emeritus of Business (School of Business)
BS, Clemson; MBA, PhD, South Carolina
Yomi Durotoye (1994-2016)
Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs
BS, University of Ibadan; MA, Georgia State; PhD, Duke
John R. Earle (1963-2001)
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
BA, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Paul D. Escott (1988-2018)
Reynolds Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Harvard; MA, PhD, Duke
Andrew V. Ettin (1977-2013)
Professor Emeritus of English
BA, Rutgers; MA, PhD, Washington (St. Louis)
Herman E. Eure (1974-2013)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BS, Maryland State; PhD, Wake Forest University
David K. Evans (1966-1998)
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
BS, Tulane; PhD, California (Berkeley)
Stephen Ewing (1971-2009)
Professor Emeritus of Business (School of Business)
BS, Howard Payne; MBA, Baylor; PhD, Texas Tech
David Finn (1995-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Sculpture
BS, Cornell University; MFA, Massachusetts College of Art
Jay Ford (1998-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
MTS, Vanderbilt University; MA, PhD, Princeton University
Donald E. Frey (1972-2011)
Professor Emeritus of Economics
BA, Wesleyan; MDiv, Yale; PhD, Princeton
Mary Friedman (1987-2021)
Professor Emerita of Spanish and Italian
BA, Wellesley; MA, PhD, Columbia Univesrity
Caroline Sandlin Fullerton (1969-1990)
Lecturer Emerita of SCTA (Theatre Arts)
BA, Rollins; MFA, Texas Christian
Candelas S. Gala (1978-2018)
Charles E. Taylor Professor Emerita of Romance Languages
BA, Salamanca (Spain); MA, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Carole Gibson (1980-2021)
Professor Emerita of Biology
BS, University of Hartford; PhD, Syracuse University
Kathleen M. Glenn (1974-1998)
Wake Forest Professor Emerita of Romance Languages
BA, MA, PhD, Stanford
Thomas S. Goho (1977-2007)
Thomas S. Goho Chair Emeritus of Finance (School of Business)
BS, MBA, Penn State; PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Louis Goldstein (1979-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Music
BM, Oberlin College; MFA, California Institute of the Arts; DMA, Eastman School of Musics
William C. Gordon (2002-2012)
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
BA, MA, Wake Forest University; PhD, Rutgers
David Hagy (1995-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Music
BM, Indiana University; MM, MMA, DMA, Yale University
Claire Holton Hammond (1978-2013)
Professor Emerita of Economics
BA, Mary Washington; PhD, Virginia
J. Daniel Hammond (1978-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Economics
BA, Wake Forest University; PhD, University of Virginia
Phillip J. Hamrick Jr. (1956-1995)
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
BS, Morris Harvey; PhD, Duke
Catherine T. Harris (1980-2019)
Professor Emerita of Sociology
BA, Lenoir-Rhyne University; MA, Duke University; PhD, University of Georgia
Elmer K. Hayashi (1973-2004)
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
BA, California (Davis); MS, San Diego State; PhD, Illinois
Roger A. Hegstrom (1969-2001)
Wake Forest Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
BA, St. Olaf; AM, PhD, Harvard
Donna A. Henderson (1996-2019)
Professor Emerita of Sociology
BA, Meredith University; MAT, James Madison University; PhD, University of Tennessee
Marcus B. Hester (1963-2006)
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
BA, Wake Forest University; PhD, Vanderbilt
E. Clayton Hipp Jr. (1991-2016)
Senior Lecturer Emeritus of Business
BA, Wofford; MBA, JD, South Carolina
Alix Hitchcock (1989-2013)
Instructor Emerita of Art
BFA, UNC-Greensboro; MA, New York
George M. Holzwarth (1983-2004)
Professor Emeritus of Physics
BA, Wesleyan; MS, PhD, Harvard
Fred L. Horton Jr. (1970-2011)
Albritton Professor Emeritus of the Bible (Department of Religion)
BA, UNC-Chapel Hill; BD, Union Theological Seminary; PhD, Duke
Fredric T. Howard (1966-2009)
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
BA, MA, Vanderbilt; PhD, Duke
Michael L. Hughes (1984-2022)
Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Claremont McKenna College; MA, PhD, University of California (Berkeley)
Patricia Adams Johansson (1969-1998)
Associate Dean of the College Emerita and Lecturer Emerita of English
BA, Winston-Salem State; MA, Wake Forest University
David J. John (1982-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
BS, Emory and Henry College; MS, PhD, Emory University
Claudia Kairoff (1986-2022)
Professor Emerita of English
BA, Notre Dame of Maryland; MA, University of Virginia; PhD, Brandeis
Judy Kem (1987-2020)
Professor Emerita of French Studies
BA, Western Kentucky University; MA, University of Louisville; PhD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Charles H. Kennedy (1985-2017)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Business
BA, Eckerd; AM, MPP, PhD, Duke
Ralph C. Kennedy III (1976-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
BA, PhD, University of California (Berkeley)
William C. Kerr (1970-2008)
Professor Emeritus of Physics
BS, Wooster; PhD, Cornell
Lee G. Knight (1979-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Western Kentucky; MA, PhD, University of Alabama
Dilip K. Kondepudi (1987-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
BS, Madras (India); MS, Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay); PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen A. Kron (1991-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BS, MS, Michigan State University; PhD, University of Florida
Raymond E. Kuhn (1968-2018)
William L. Poteat Professor Emeritus of Biology
BS, Carson-Newman; PhD, University of Tennessee
James Kuzmanovich (1972-2014)
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
BS, Rose Polytechnic; PhD, Wisconsin
Hugo C. Lane (1973-2013)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Licenciate of the Biological Sciences, Doctorate of the Biological Sciences, Geneva
Page H. Laughlin (1987-2022)
Professor Emerita of Art
BA, University of Virginia; MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Michael S. Lawlor (1986-2014)
Professor Emeritus of Economics
BA, Texas (Austin); PhD, Iowa State
Candyce C. Leonard (1996-2014)
Professor Emerita of Communication
BA, Texas Wesleyan; MA, MEd, Louisville; PhD, Indiana (Bloomington)
David B. Levy (1976-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Music
BM, MA, Eastman School of Music; PhD, University of Rochester
Charles M. Lewis (1968-2016)
A.C. Reid Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
BA, Wake Forest University; ThM, Harvard; PhD, Vanderbilt
Stanley W. Mandel (1998-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Tulane; MBA, Kellogg GSM; PhD, Texas Tech
Milorad R. Margitic´ (1978-2005)
Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages
MA, Leiden (Netherlands); PhD, Wayne State
Dale R. Martin (1982-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, MS, Illinois State; DBA, Kentucky
George "Rick" Matthews (1979-2020)
Professor Emeritus of Physics
BS, PhD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Darlene May (2005-2021)
Professor Emerita of Arabic
Jill Jordan McMillan (1983-2006)
Professor Emerita of Communication
BA, Baylor; MA, Arkansas; PhD, Texas
Gordon A. Melson (1991-2006)
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Emeritus
BS, PhD, Sheffield (England) and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
Jack R. Meredith (1995-2017)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, Oregon State; MBA, PhD, California (Berkeley)
J. Kendall Middaugh II (1987)
Associate Professor of Management
BBA, MBA George Washington; PhD, Ohio State
Joseph O. Milner (1969-2014)
Professor Emeritus of Education
BA, Davidson; MA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
John C. Moorhouse (1969-2006)
Archie Carroll Professor Emeritus of Ethical Leadership
BA, Wabash; PhD, Northwestern (Department of Economics)
Patrick E. Moran (1989-2010)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
BA, MA, Stanford; MA, National Taiwan University; PhD, Pennsylvania
Thomas E. Mullen (1957-2000)
Dean of the College Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Rollins; MA, PhD, Emory University
Jim Narus (1988-2021)
Professor Emeritus of School of Business
MA, MBA, Connecticut University; PhD, Syracuse University
Joel Newman (1976-2017)
Professor Emeritus of Law
Debbie W. Newsome (1999-2021)
Professor Emerita of Counseling
BA, Oklahoma Baptist University; MEd, Wake Forest University; PhD, University North Carolina - Greensboro
Ronald E. Noftle (1967-2014)
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
BS, New Hampshire; PhD, Washington
James L. Norris (1989-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics
BS, MS (Science), MS (Statistics), North Carolina State University; PhD, Florida State University
Gillian Rose Overing (1979-2019)
Professor Emerita of English
BA, Lancaster (England); MA, PhD, State University of New York (Buffalo)
Perry L. Patterson (1986-2013)
Professor Emeritus of Economics and Lecturer Emeritus of Russian
BA, Indiana University; MA, PhD, Northwestern
Mary L.B. Pendergraft (1988-2022)
Professor Emerita of Classics
BA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill
Philip J. Perricone (1967-2003)
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
BS, MA, Florida; PhD, Kentucky
Robert J. Plemmons (1990-2013)
Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science
BS, Wake Forest University; PhD, Auburn
James T. Powell (1988-2015)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
BA, Emory; MPhil, MA, PhD, Yale
Jenny Puckett (1995-2013)
Lecturer Emerita in Romance Languages
BA, Wake Forest University; MA, Middlebury
Teresa Radomski (1977-2021)
Professor Emerita of Music
BM, Eastman School of Music; MM, University of Colorado
Mary Lynn B. Redmond (1989-2018)
Professor Emerita of Education
BA, EdD, UNC-Greensboro; MEd, UNC-Chapel Hill
Bruce G. Resnick (1995-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Finance
BBA, Wisconsin (Oshkosh); MBA, Colorado; DBA, Indiana
Suzanne Reynolds (1981-2020)
Professor Emerita of School of Law
Paul M. Ribisl (1973-2013)
Charles E. Taylor Professor Emeritus of Health and Exercise Science
BS, Pittsburgh; MA, Kent State; PhD, Illinois
Charles L. Richman (1968-2006)
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
BA, Virginia; MA, Yeshiva; PhD, Cincinnati
Leonard P. Roberge (1974-2002)
Professor Emeritus of Education
BA, New Hampshire; MA, Atlanta; EdD, Maine
Donald P. Robin (1997-2009)
J. Tylee Wilson Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics (School of Business)
BS, MBA, PhD, Louisiana State
Luis Roniger (2004-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs
Licenciado, Universidad National de Buenos Aires; MA, PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brooke Saladin (1983-2018)
Professor Emeritus of Business
BS, PhD, Ohio State; MBA, Bowling Green State
Wilmer D. Sanders (1954-1957, 1964-1992)
Professor Emeritus of German
BA, Muhlenberg; MA, PhD, Indiana
Timothy F. Sellner (1970-2003)
Professor Emeritus of German
BA, PhD, Michigan; MA, Wayne State
Cathy Seta (1987-2020)
Professor Emerita of Psychology
BA, MA, PhD, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Kurt C. Shaw (1987-2018)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Russian
BA, Missouri; MA, PhD, University of Kansas
Howard W. Shields (1958-2001)
Professor Emeritus of Physics
BS, UNC-Chapel Hill; MS, Pennsylvania State; PhD, Duke
Wayne Silver (1985-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Florida State University
Robin Simon (2009-2021)
Professor Emerita of Sociology
Jeanne M. Simonelli (1999-2013)
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
BA, MA, PhD, Oklahoma; MPH, Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center
Michael L. Sinclair (1968-2006)
Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Wake Forest University; AM, PhD, Stanford
Earl Smith (1996-2012)
Rubin Professor Emeritus of American Ethnic Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology
BA, SUNY (Stony Brook); MA, PhD, Connecticut
Margaret Supplee Smith (1979-2011)
Harold W. Tribble Professor Emerita of Art
BS, Missouri; MA, Case Western Reserve; PhD, Brown
Cecilia H. Solano (1977-2017)
Associate Professor Emerita of Psychology
BA, Harvard; MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins
David H. Stroupe (1990-2016)
Associate Professor Emeritus of the Practice in English
BS, Wake Forest University; MA, UNC-Chapel Hill
Thomas C. Taylor (1971-2003)
Professor Emeritus of Accountancy (School of Business)
BS, MA, UNC-Chapel Hill; PhD, Louisiana State
Stan Thomas (1983-2023)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
BS, Davidson College; PhD, Vanderbilt University
Clark Thompson (2001-2021)
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
BA, JD, PhD, University of Virginia
Ronald Thompson (2000-2021)
Professor Emeritus of School of Business
BMath, University of Waterloo; MBA, McMaster; PhD, University of Western Ontario
Harry B. Titus Jr. (1981-2013)
Professor Emeritus of Art
BA, Wisconsin (Milwaukee); MFA, PhD, Princeton
Ralph B. Tower (1980-2014)
Wayne Calloway Professor Emeritus of Taxation
BA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill; MBA, Cornell
George W. Trautwein (1983-1996)
Director of Instrumental Ensembles Emeritus (Department of Music)
BMus, Oberlin; MMus, Cleveland Institute; MusD, Indiana
Robert W. Ulery Jr. (1971-2011)
Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages
BA, MA, PhD, Yale
Robert L. Utley Jr. (1978-2013)
Associate Professor Emeritus of Humanities
BA, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, Duke
Sarah L. Watts (1987-2011)
Professor Emerita of History
BA, Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts; MA, PhD, Oklahoma
David S. Weaver (1977-2002)
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
BA, MA, Arizona; PhD, New Mexico
Peter D. Weigl (1968-2009)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BA, Williams; PhD, Duke
David P. Weinstein (1989-2015)
Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs
BA, Colorado College; MA, Connecticut; PhD, Johns Hopkins
Ulrike Weithaus (1991-2021)
Professor Emerita of Study of Religions
Colloquium at Kirchliche Hochschule (Berlin, Germany); MA, PhD, Temple University
Byron R. Wells (1981-2016)
Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages
BA, MA, Georgia; PhD, Columbia
Helga Welsh (1993-2023)
Professor Emeritus of Politics & International Affairs
MA, PhD, University of Munich
George Page West (1995-2020)
Professor Emeritus of School of Business
Larry E. West (1969-2010)
Professor Emeritus of German
BA, Berea; PhD, Vanderbilt
M. Stanley Whitley (1990-2013)
Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages
BA, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, Cornell
Jack Wilkerson (1989-2023)
D. Wayne Calloway Professor Emeritus of Accountancy
BS, Bob Jones University; PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Alan Williams (1974-2020)
Professor Emeritus of History
BA, Stanford University; PhD, Yale University
John G. Williard (1958-1994)
Vice President and Treasurer Emeritus
BS, UNC-Chapel Hill
David C. Wilson (1984-85, 1987-2015)
Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Mathematics
BS, Wake Forest University; MAT, Emory
Edwin G. Wilson (1951-2002)
Provost Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of English
BA, Wake Forest University, AM, PhD, Harvard
Donald H. Wolfe (1968-2000)
Professor Emeritus of Theatre
BS, MS, Southern Illinois; PhD, Cornell
John H. Wood (1985-2022)
Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Economics
BS, Ohio; MA, Michigan State University; PhD, Purdue University
J. Ned Woodall (1969-2003)
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
BA, MA, Texas; PhD, Southern Methodist
Raymond L. Wyatt (1956-1992)
Professor Emeritus of Biology
BS, Wake Forest University; MA, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill