Staff

Dean J. Franco
Director and Professor of English
336.758.3073
francodj@wfu.edu
Dean Franco is Director of the WFU Humanities Institute and Professor of English. Franco joined Wake Forest 2001. He directs the Jewish Studies minor, has recently served as associate chair of the English department, and was the Scott Family Faculty Fellow from 2012-2014. He researches and publishes on race and literature. Franco along with Mary Foskett, Wake Forest Kahle Professor of Religious Studies; Sally Barbour, professor of Romance Languages; and David Phillips, associate professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities — laid the groundwork and secured the funding that made the Institute possible.

Aimee Mepham
Associate Director
336.758.4028
mephamam@wfu.edu
Aimee joined the Humanities Institute in July 2013 as Program Coordinator. She was promoted to Assistant Director in July 2016 and to Associate Director in July 2021. She oversees the Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, and Healing initiative, which provides programming in Narrative Medicine to the Wake Forest and Winston-Salem communities. Originally from Dearborn, Michigan, she is a graduate of Albion College and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She has taught creative writing workshops at Indiana University, Washington University in St. Louis, Salem College, and Wake Forest University. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Meridian, River Styx, among others, and has also been performed twice by Liars’ League NYC, a live literary journal featuring professionally trained actors reading original short stories by writers.
Kimberly Thornton Scholl
Administrative Assistant
336.758.3074
schollkt@wfu.edu
Kimberly Thornton Scholl became the Administrative Assistant for the Humanities Institute in September 2015. She serves as the primary contact person for the institute and performs a variety of duties for the institute including budget participation as well as organizing all administrative functions that support the Humanities Institute. After many years as a musical theatre performer, with roles ranging from classics to modern jazz opera, Kimberly transitioned into parenthood and into Montessori education and is an American Montessori Society-certified Early Childhood Educator. Before coming to HI, she was LGBTQ Center Project Assistant, charged with coordinating the inaugural Rising Voices: A Wake Forest LGBTQIA Alumni conference.
Affiliated Staff
Carrie Johnston
Digital Humanities Research Designer
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Carrie Johnston joined the ZSR faculty in September 2016. Carrie received her PhD in English and American Literature from Southern Methodist University in 2014, an MA in English and American Literature from Florida Atlantic University in 2009, and a BA in Communications from Tulane in 2002. She is currently a CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) postdoctoral fellow in digital scholarship, library and instructional technology at Bucknell University.
Faculty Executive Committee
Stephanie Koscak
Associate Professor of History
336.758.5627
koscakse@wfu.edu
Morna O'Neill
Associate Professor of Art History
336.758.3925
oneillme@wfu.edu
Nate Plageman
Associate Professor of History
336.758.4318
plagemna@wfu.edu
Faculty Advisory Board
Jonathan Cardi
Professor of Law; Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, WFU School of Law
336.758.6039
cardiwj@wfu.edu
Benjamin Coates
Associate Professor of History
336.758.4517
coatesba@wfu.edu
John J. Curley
Associate Professor of Art History
336.758.5080
curleyjj@wfu.edu
Chanchal Dadlani
Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, ZSR Foundation Faculty Fellow
dadlani@wfu.edu
Jennifer Greiman
Associate Professor of English
336.758.4491
greimaj@wfu.edu
Derek Hicks
Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, Divinity School
336.758.5440
hicksds@wfu.edu
Lucas Johnston
Associate Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies
336.758.3341
johnstlf@wfu.edu
Stephanie Koscak
Associate Professor of History
336.758.5627
koscakse@wfu.edu
Morna O'Neill
Associate Professor of Art History
336.758.5310
oneillme@wfu.edu
Nate Plageman
Associate Professor of History
336.758.4318
plagemna@wfu.edu
Jessica Richard
Associate Professor and Chair of English
336.758.3548
richarja@wfu.edu
Eric Stottlemyer
Associate Dean for the Engaged Liberal Arts; Associate Teaching Professor
336.758.4169
stottlem@wfu.edu
Program Steering Committees
DH Creative Team
- Lisa Blee, Associate Professor (History)
- Dean Franco, HI Director and Professor (English)
- Jerid Francom, Associate Professor (Romance Languages and Linguistics)
- Carrie Johnston, Digital Humanities Research Designer (ZSR Library)
- David Phillips, Associate Professor (Interdisciplinary Humanities)
- Phoebe Zerwick, Associate Professor of the Practice and Director, Journalism Program (English)
Narrative Medicine: The Story, Health, and Healing Initiative
Aimee Mepham, MFA (Co-Chair)
Assistant Director, Humanities Institute
Wake Forest University
Tanya Gregory, PhD (Co-Chair)
Assistant Professor
Director of Student Services
Director of the Writing Center
Department of Physician Assistant Studies
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Mollie Rose Canzona, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
Wake Forest University
Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Member
Cancer Prevention & Control Program
Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sean E. Ervin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Wake Forest School of Medicine
K. Patrick Ober, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine – Endocrinology & Metabolism
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Marcia Wofford, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
Wake Forest School of Medicine