Amanda Griffith
Chair of Department and Associate Professor
Ollen R. Nalley Faculty Fellow
(336) 758-4523 | Kirby Hall 207 | griffial@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics
B.A. – Colgate University
M.A. – Cornell University
Ph.D. – Cornell University
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Fred Chen
Professor
(336) 758-5231 | Kirby Hall 204A | chenfh@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Economic Epidemiology, Bioeconomics
B.S. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. – University of Chicago
Allin F. Cottrell
Professor
(336) 758-5762 | Kirby Hall 214 | cottrell@wfu.edu
Research Interests: History of economic thought (Marx and Keynes in particular), Issues in Macroeconomics, and Theory of Economic Planning
B.A. – Oxford University
Ph.D. – University of Edinburgh
Mark Curtis
Associate Professor
(336) 758-4413 | Kirby Hall 216 | curtisem@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Environmental, Labor, Energy, Public
B.A. – Furman University
M.A. – Duke University
Ph.D. – Georgia State University
Christina Marsh Dalton
Associate Professor
(336) 758-4495 | Kirby Hall 204B | daltonc@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
B.A. – Cornell University
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
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John T. Dalton
Associate Professor F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellow
(336) 758-4084 | Kirby Hall 204 | daltonjt@wfu.edu
Research Interests: International Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Economic History
B.A. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. – University of Minnesota
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
Fran Flanagan
Associate Chair of Department and Associate Professor
(336) 758-2311 | Kirby Hall 208 | flanagfx@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, Law and Economics
B.A. – Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jac C. Heckelman
Professor
(336) 758-5923 | Kirby Hall 205 | heckeljc@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Constitutional Convention, Interest Groups, Lottery Voting Mechanisms, Institutions, Spatial Models
B.A. – University of Texas
Ph.D. – University of Maryland
Aeimit K. Lakdawala
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4527 | lakdawa@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Macro-Finance.
B.S./B.A. – University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Leah K. Lakdawala
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4537 | lakdawl@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics.
B.Sc. – Georgetown University
M.Sc. – University College London
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Tin Cheuk (Tommy) Leung
Associate Professor
(336) 758-3497 | Kirby Hall 206 | leungtc@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Applied Micro, Copyright, African Slave Trade
B.A. – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
M.A. – University of Minnesota
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
John A. MacDonald
Associate Teaching Professor
(336) 758-4457 | Kirby Hall 211 | macdonja@wfu.edu
B.A. – Wake Forest University
Ph.D. – University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Todd McFall
Assistant Teaching Professor
(336) 758-4055 | Kirby Hall 223 | mcfallta@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Sports and Economics, Industrial Organization, Personnel Economics
B.S. – Miami University
Ph.D. – North Carolina State University
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Jane Ryngaert
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-6503 | Kirby Hall 210 | ryngaejm@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Macroeconomics and monetary policy, with a particular emphasis on how economic agents form their expectations
B.A. – College of William and Mary
Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin
Koleman Strumpf 
Professor and Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy
(336) 758-5410 | Kirby Hall 201 | strumpks@wfu.edu
Research Interests: File Sharing, Prediction Markets, Industrial Organization.
B.S. – Stanford University
A.B – Stanford University
Ph.D. – MIT
Robert M. Whaples
Hough Family Faculty Fellow and Professor
(336) 758-4916 | Kirby Hall 209 | whaples@wfu.edu
Research Interests: American Economic History, Consensus Among Economists, Political Economy.
B.A. – University of Maryland
Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania
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John H. Wood
Reynolds Professor of Economics
(336) 758-5250 | Kirby Hall 213 | jw@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Monetary Theory and Policy
B.S. – Ohio University
M.A. – Michigan State University
Ph.D. – Purdue University
Chu (Alex) Yu
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-2312 | Kirby Hall 224 | yua@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics
B.A. – Northwestern University
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Visiting Faculty
Megan Regan
Visiting Associate Professor
(336) 758-5335 | Kirby Hall 215 | reganme@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Poverty and risk, structural determinants of poverty, regional economics.
BSBA, MEd, Ph.D. – University of Florida
Stephen Calabrese
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4519 | Kirby Hall 217 | calabrs@wfu.edu
Nicholas Cooper
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4494 | Kirby Hall 212 | coopern@wfu.edu
Joshua Gorsuch
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-3671 | Kirby Hall 252B | gorsucj@wfu.edu
Abdul Mughal
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-3666 | Kirby Hall 252A | mughalag@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Economics of International Labor Migration, Economics of Education, Economic History of Muslim Countries.
B.A. – University of Karachi, Pakistan
M.A. – Simon Fraser University, Canada and University of Southern California Ph. D. – University of Southern California
Emeriti
Donald E. Frey
Michael S. Lawlor
Claire H. Hammond
J. Daniel Hammond
John C. Moorhouse
Perry L. Patterson
Staff Contacts
Joanna Hamilton Academic Coordinator
Kirby Hall 225 (Calloway Center) (336) 758-5334 hamiltjk@wfu.edu
Don Shegog Instructional Technologist
Kirby Hall 105 (336) 758-4818 shegogdr
Member of Wake Forest University’s Instructional Technology Group.
Summer Krstevska ZSR Economics Department Library Liaison krstevs@wfu.edu
Cheryl Hicks Economics Department Career Coach Office of Personal and Career Development (336) 758-3327 hickscj@wfu.edu