Amanda Griffith
Chair of Department and Professor
(336) 758-4523 | Kirby Hall 213 | 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
Hough Family Fellow
(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
Tina 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 Chair of Department and Associate Professor
(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
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
Research Professor
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 | Kirby Hall 217 | 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 | Kirby Hall 202B | 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
Associate 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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Andre Mouton
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-2311 | Kirby Hall 202A | moutona@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization.
B.A. – Baruch College
Ph.D. – Carnegie Mellon University
Megan Regan
Assistant Teaching 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
Andreea Rotarescu
Assistant Professor
(336) 758 6503 | Kirby Hall 210 | rotarea@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, International Finance.
B.A. – University of Vienna
M.Sc. – Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University (expected)
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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Chu (Alex) Yu
Assistant Professor
(336) 758-2312 | Kirby Hall 207 | yua@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics
B.A. – Northwestern University
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Visiting Faculty
Stephen Calabrese
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-4519 | Kirby Hall 208 | calabrs@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Public Economics/Public Finance, Political Economy, Public Policy, and Formal Political Theory.
B.S. – Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
M.S. – Carnegie Mellon
Ph. D. – Carnegie Mellon
Yinlin Dai
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758 3666| Kirby Hall 252A | daiy@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Gender Economics, Family Economics and Labor Economics.
B.A. – Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas
Ph. D. – Clemson University
Joshua Gorsuch
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758-3671 | Kirby Hall 252B | gorsucj@wfu.edu
Tabitha Knott
Visiting Assistant Professor
(336) 758 5250| Kirby Hall 224 | knottt@wfu.edu
Research Interests: Public Economics, Regional Economics, Economics of Crime
B.A.- University of North Carolina, Wilmington
M.A.- Clemson University
Ph.D. – Clemson University
Website: https://sites.google.com/g.clemson.edu/trknott/home
Emeriti
Donald E. Frey
Michael S. Lawlor
Claire H. Hammond
J. Daniel Hammond
John C. Moorhouse
Perry L. Patterson
John H. Wood
Staff Contacts
Lesley Whitener Academic Coordinator
Kirby Hall 225 (Calloway Center) (336) 758-5334 whitenlr@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
Sharon Ralston Economics Department Career Coach Office of Personal and Career Development
ralssn17@wfu.edu