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Faculty and Staff

 


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

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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

Professor Mark Curtis, Economics

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 DaltonTina 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

 

 


leungTin 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 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

20140408economics1849Joanna 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@wfu.edu

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

 

About Us

Wake Forest Economics Department

225 Kirby Hall (Calloway Center)

Wake Forest University

Box 7505

Winston-Salem, NC 27109 USA

336 758 5334

 

Academic Coordinator

Joanna Hamilton

hamiltjk@wfu.edu

 

Department Chair

Amanda Griffith

griffial@wfu.edu

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