Faculty and Staff Directory
Sandeep Mazumder
Chair of Department and Associate Professor
(336) 758-4519 | Kirby Hall 216 | mazumds@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics
B.A. – Cambridge University
M.A. – Cambridge University/Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. – Johns Hopkins 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
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4413 | Kirby Hall 215 | 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 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
Amanda Griffith
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Department
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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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
Tin Cheuk (Tommy) Leung
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-3497 | Kirby Hall 224 | 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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James R. Otteson
Professor and Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics
|232 Farrell Hall. ottesojr@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Adam Smith, Political economy, History of economic thought.
B.A. – University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. – University of Chicago
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
Margaret Triyana
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-5335 | Kirby Hall 206 | triyanm@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Development Economics and Human Capital with a focus on Health.
B.A. – University of Chicago
M.A. – University of Chicago
Ph.D. – University of Chicago
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
Visiting Faculty
Megan Regan
Visiting Associate Professor
(336) 758-2312 | Kirby Hall 224 | reganme@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Poverty and risk, structural determinants of poverty, regional economics.
BSBA, MEd, Ph.D. – University of Florida
Bilal Celik 
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4527 | Kirby Hall 252B | celikb@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Public Economics in general and economics of natural disasters
B.A. – Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
M.S. – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. – University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Andrew Graczyk 
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4527 | Kirby Hall 212 | graczyac@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Asset Bubbles and Income Inequality
B.A. – University of South Carolina
Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Emeriti
Donald E. Frey
Michael S. Lawlor
Claire H. Hammond
J. Daniel Hammond
John C. Moorhouse
Perry L. Patterson
Staff Contacts
Joanna Hamilton
Administrative Coordinator
Kirby Hall 225 (Calloway Center)
(336) 758-5334
hamiltjk@wfu.edu
Jo has enjoyed being in the Department since October 2013, having previously moved from England to Winston-Salem. If you have any questions about the Economics Department or perhaps about the UK before you go there to study, stop by and see her, or email. She will be happy to help.
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