Find an Expert
Mike Summers
Director, Employer Relations
Summers helps students build relationships and seek internships as they explore and secure career paths from their first year to their last.
Expert Areas: Employer Relations | Job Hunting | Networking | Career Development | Personal Development | Employer | Higher Education | Talent Recruitment | Employment/Hiring Trends
Timo Thonhauser
Associate Professor of Physics
Thonhauser sees much potential for using hydrogen to power vehicles.
Expert Areas: Condensed Matter Physics | Carbon Capture | Physics | Quantum Physics | Hydrogen Storage | Metal Organic Frameworks
Barry Trachtenberg
Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History and Director of Jewish Studies Program
Trachtenberg can comment on the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as a range of issues facing Jews around the world.
Expert Areas: American Jewish history | Race, immigration policy and Judaism | The Holocaust | Nazism | Antisemitism | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Jewish identity and culture | Yiddish culture and language | Zionism
Andrew Verstein, J.D.
Professor of Law
Verstein’s vast knowledge of business law is heavily sought-after by media covering finance laws, insider trading, and corporate governance.
Expert Areas: Financial Benchmarks | Securities and Commodities | Market Manipulation | Lending | International Business Law | Crowdfunding | Insider Trading | Investing | Litigation | Mixed Motives | Securities Litigation | Finance Law | Corporate Law | Corporate Governance | Corporate Finance | Contract Law | Contracts | China | Business Law | Business Entities
Robert Whaples
Professor of Economics
Whaples is a strong advocate of eliminating the penny.
Expert Areas: Economic History of the U.S. | Employment and Unemployment | History of Labor Markets | Minimum Wage | Walmart and Big Box Retailers | Economics of Climate Change | Economics of Natural Resources | Elimination of the Penny
Eric G. Wilson
Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English
Wilson is a leading expert in the relationships between literature and psychology.
Expert Areas: American Culture and Mental Health | Literature and Psychology | Film and Religion | Western Esoteric Traditions | Humanism and Technology | Transatlantic Romanticism | The Gothic
Ron Wright, J.D.
Professor of Law
Wright is a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice who empirically researches prosecutors and criminal procedure.
Expert Areas: Criminal Procedure | Criminal Justice | Sentencing | Criminal Prosecutors | Racial Justice | Police Oversight | Antitrust | White-Collar Criminal Cases | Jury Selection | Criminal Law | Evidence | Trial Lawyer | Presecution | Empirical Research
Broadcast Studio
Wake Forest University’s Office of Communications and External Relations operates a fully equipped, professional television and radio studio to connect faculty members and campus newsmakers with global news media.
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National Geographic
Weird animal question of the week: This animal has the biggest ears on Earth (relative to size)
Good Morning America
Mentally tiring work linked to type 2 diabetes in women: Study