About Us
Jill Tiefenthaler
Provost and Professor of Economics
Jill Tiefenthaler has served as the Provost of Wake Forest University since 2007. During this time she has led strategic planning at the university, and implemented key initiatives, including diversity in admissions and enrollment, and new faculty development, recruitment and retention efforts. Prior to Wake Forest University, she was at Colgate University where she had been Chair of the Economics Department, Director of the Upstate Institute, Associate Dean of the Faculty, and Consultant to the President. An economist by training, she holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University, and a B.A. in Economics from Saint Mary's College. Her research interests include labor economics, economics of the family and development economics.
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Telephone: 336-758-4900
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E-mail: jmt@wfu.edu
Michele Gillespie
Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives and Kahle Family Associate Professor of History
Michele Gillespie is Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives and Kahle Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University. She has written extensively on the history of the American South, and is interested in constructions of gender, race, class, memory and region. She is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She received her B.A. in History and English from Rice University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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Telephone: 336-758-4270
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E-mail: gillesmk@wfu.edu
Kline Harrison
Associate Provost for International Affairs and Kemper Professor of Business
Kline Harrison is the Associate Provost for International Affairs at Wake Forest University. Prior to assuming his current role, he was an Associate Dean in the Calloway School of Business and Accountancy at the University. He received his undergraduate degree in Organizational Management from the University of Virginia and his doctorate from the University in Maryland in Organizational Behavior. His dissertation examined the comparative effects of training methods in preparing managers for cross-cultural assignments. His research has focused on various aspects of international human resource management with a recent emphasis on the impact of personality variables on students’ study abroad experiences.
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Telephone: 336-758-4907
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E-mail: harrisjk@wfu.edu
Rick Matthews
Associate Provost for Information Systems and Professor of Physics
Rick Matthews has served as Associate Provost of Wake Forest University since August 2007. Prior to becoming Associate Provost, he served as the chair of the Department of Physics for nine years. Matthews is committed to the use and discovery of improved teaching methods in the sciences, and has a particular interest in exploiting technology to enhance student learning. His research engages in computational modeling of material properties and focuses on defects in crystalline materials that either enhance or degrade the ability of the material to detect or resist radiation or to act as a laser material. He received a B.S. with Honors in Physics from the University of North Carolina and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the same institution.
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Telephone: 336-758-5340
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E-mail: matthews@wfu.edu
Mark Welker
Associate Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs and William L. Poteat Professor of Chemistry
Mark Welker has served as an Associate Provost since 2003. He also holds joint academic appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, and the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has been the principal investigator (PI) on several million dollars worth of externally funded proposals on research and education topics and has been a co-PI on many additional equipment and training/center grants on both the Arts and Sciences and Medical School campuses. He received a B.S. with highest Honors in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Florida State University. He then served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Telephone: 336-758-5758
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E-mail: welker@wfu.edu
Barbee Oakes
Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
Barbee Myers Oakes is the Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion. Prior to her current position, she served as the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University for 14 years. Under her leadership, the OMA implemented key retention strategies that positioned Wake Forest among the most successful institutions in the nation with respect to graduating students of color. An Exercise Physiologist by training, Oakes received a B.S. with Honors and an M.A. in Exercise Science from Wake Forest. As a Hylton Smith Fellow, she received a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology & Nutrition from the University of Tennessee and was the first African American female with a doctorate in the American College of Sports Medicine. Oakes has held academic appointments as an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest, Arizona State, and Penn State University. Her current research interests include the identification of the tools students of color need to successfully navigate the journey of higher education.
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Telephone: 336-758-3106
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Email: oakes@wfu.edu
Deb Alty
Special Projects Manager
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Telephone: 336-758-3224
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E-mail: altyd@wfu.edu
Anita Hughes
Assistant to the Provost
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Telephone: 336-758-4900
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E-mail: awh@wfu.edu
Debbie Hallstead
Assistant to the Associate Provosts
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Telephone: 336-758-4816
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E-mail: hallsted@wfu.edu
Beth Hoagland
Business Manager
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Telephone: 336-758-5146
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E-mail: hoaglamb@wfu.edu
Velvet Bryant
Wake Forest Fellow
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Telephone: 336-758-4866
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E-mail: bryantve@wfu.edu
Matt Triplett
Wake Forest Fellow
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Telephone: 336-758-4866
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E-mail: triplemr@wfu.edu