25 faculty and 40 courses in Economics at Wake Forest University.
- Fred Chen, Professor h-index 31
Economic Epidemiology, Bioeconomics
Notable: “Genetic and Clinical Features of Hemoglobin H Disease in Chinese Patients” (2000) · 217 citations
- Koleman Strumpf, Professor and Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy h-index 19
File Sharing, Predication Markets, and Industrial Organization Personal Webpage Please also see – WFU Teacher Scholar portraits
Notable: “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis” (2007) · 878 citations
- Robert Whaples, Professor h-index 18
American Economic History, Consensus Among Economists, and Political Economy See also WFU Expert File Listing If you have received an
Notable: “ARE DISAGREEMENTS AMONG MALE AND FEMALE ECONOMISTS MARGINAL AT BEST?: A SURVEY OF AEA MEMBERS AND THEIR VIEWS ON ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY” (2013) · 95 citations
- Erik Nesson, Associate Professor h-index 17
Health Economics, Law and Economics, and Sports Economics. Erik Nesson Webpage
Notable: “The effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: Evidence from retail panel data” (2022) · 133 citations
- Amanda Griffith, Professor h-index 13
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics See also WFU Expert File Listing
Notable: “Persistence of women and minorities in STEM field majors: Is it the school that matters?” (2010) · 646 citations
- Aeimit Lakdawala, Associate Professor h-index 11
Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, and Macro-Finance
Notable: “Market-Based Monetary Policy Uncertainty” (2021) · 116 citations
- Tin Cheuk (Tommy) Leung, Associate Professor h-index 10
Economics of digitization Economic history of the African slave trade and its effects Economics of housing
Notable: “Why Is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western Africa? An African Slave Trade Perspective” (2014) · 87 citations
- Leah Lakdawala, Associate Professor and Clark Family Faculty Fellow h-index 8
Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Notable: “Discrimination Begins in the Womb: Evidence of Sex-Selective Prenatal Investments” (2013) · 122 citations
- John Dalton, Associate Professor h-index 8
International Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, and Economic History
Notable: “Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries” (2013) · 106 citations
- Todd McFall, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 5
Sports and Economics, Industrial Organization, and Personnel Economics See also WFU Expert File Listing Personal Webpage
Notable: “Contests, Grand Prizes, and the Hot Hand” (2009) · 34 citations
- Brian Marein, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Es on economic history and development, especially on Latin America and the United States in the early 20th century.
Notable: “Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality” (2022) · 14 citations
- Jinyoung Seo, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics and Macro-finance
Notable: “Did capital replace labor? New evidence from offshoring” (2018) · 2 citations
- Andre Mouton, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization
- Andreea Rotarescu, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, and International Finance
- Caroline Tompson, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Chu (Alex) Yu, Assistant Professor
Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics Chu (Alex) Yu Webpage
- Fabiola Alba-Vivar, Assistant Professor
Development Economics, Education and Labor Economics, Gender and Health Economics
- Giorgi Nikolaishvili, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Computational Economics Personal Web Page
Notable: “Monetary Transmission Through Community and Noncommunity Bank Lending” (2025)
- Jijeebisha Bhattarai, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Joaquin Urrego, Assistant Professor
Urban Economics, Economics of Crime, Development, and Real Estate
- John MacDonald, Teaching Professor
Geared toward Industrial Organization with a specific emphasis on the airline industry. John and his wife Laurie (’95) have five children: Audrey, Sadie, Nora, Lucy, and Duncan. Teaching Research A Private Liberal Arts University in Win
- Mark Curtis, Department Chair, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor
Environmental, Labor, Energy, and Public Economics
Notable: “cbp_st_table2.tab” (2017)
- Megan Manassah, Associate Teaching Professor
Poverty, inequality, and the economics of gender. She has an amazing wife and two young kids. Megan is from South Florida and regularly tries to recreate its glorious humidity at Aware hot yoga studio. Teaching Courses ECN 15
- Tina Dalton, Associate Professor
Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics See also WFU Expert File Listing
- Zachary Luther, Visiting Assistant Professor
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.