25 faculty and 40 courses in Economics at Wake Forest University.
- Fred Chen, Professor h-index 31
Economic Epidemiology, Bioeconomics Personal Website
- Erik Nesson, Associate Professor h-index 17
Health Economics, Law and Economics, and Sports Economics. Erik Nesson Webpage
- Amanda Griffith, Professor h-index 13
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics See also WFU Expert File Listing Personal Website
- 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
- Leah Lakdawala, Associate Professor and Clark Family Faculty Fellow h-index 8
Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics Personal Website
- Todd McFall, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 5
Sports and Economics, Industrial Organization, and Personnel Economics See also WFU Expert File Listing Personal Webpage
- 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.
- Chu (Alex) Yu, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics Chu (Alex) Yu Webpage Personal Website
- Jinyoung Seo, Assistant Professor h-index 1
Macroeconomics, Monetary economics and Macro-finance Personal Website
- Aeimit Lakdawala, Associate Professor
Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, and Macro-Finance Personal Website
- Andre Mouton, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization Personal Website
- Andreea Rotarescu, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, and International Finance Personal Website
- Caroline Tompson, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Fabiola Alba-Vivar, Assistant Professor
Development Economics, Education and Labor Economics, Gender and Health Economics Personal Website
- Giorgi Nikolaishvili, Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Computational Economics Personal Web Page
- Jijeebisha Bhattarai, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Joaquin Urrego, Assistant Professor
Urban Economics, Economics of Crime, Development, and Real Estate Personal Website
- John Dalton, Associate Professor
International Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, and Economic History Personal Website
- 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
- Koleman Strumpf, Professor and Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy
File Sharing, Predication Markets, and Industrial Organization Personal Webpage Please also see – WFU Teacher Scholar portraits
- Mark Curtis, Department Chair, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor
Environmental, Labor, Energy, and Public Economics Personal Website
- 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
- Robert Whaples, Professor
American Economic History, Consensus Among Economists, and Political Economy See also WFU Expert File Listing If you have received an
- Tina Dalton, Associate Professor
Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics See also WFU Expert File Listing Personal Website
- 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 2026-07-01.