Author: Michael Ferrari Archive

Gary Miller’s research considers both healthy behavioral lifestyle changes of nutrition and physical activity as well as bariatric surgery interventions in obesity and weight loss. Most of his work focuses on older adults with impaired physical function. He also has an active line of research in studying the impact that consuming beetroot juice.

Alisha J. Hines is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Wake Forest University. She researches and teaches in the fields of American Slavery, the US Civil War & Reconstruction, and also Atlantic World History. Currently, she is at work on her book, tentatively titled Geographies of Freedom: Black Women’s Mobility and the Making of the Western River World.

Romance novels, fictional television, and fashion designs. These are just a few of the topics investigated by Lynn S. Neal. An award-winning teacher of Religious Studies, Neal’s innovative research examines how various forms of popular culture shape our understanding and experience of American religion in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

David Phillips (phillips@wfu.edu) is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and is co-founder of the Digital Humanities Initiative, as well as a strong supporter of the Humanities Institute.

Ulrike Wiethaus, Ph.D., holds a joint appointment as full professor in the Department of Religion and in the American Ethnic Studies Program. Her research interests focus on the history of Christian spirituality with an emphasis on gender justice and political history, and most recently, historic trauma, religion, and the long-term impact of US colonialism.