
Michele Gillespie
Dean of the College
104 Reynolda Hall
336-758-3418
gillesmk@wfu.edu
Dean Gillespie, Presidential Endowed Chair of Southern History, was appointed Dean of the College with academic oversight for the Undergraduate School of Arts and Sciences on July 1, 2015. She was named Kahle Family Professor of History in 2003, and she was the first Wake Forest faculty member to be honored with an endowed Presidential chair in 2013. Her most recent book, “Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South,” presents 10 years of in-depth research on industry titan R.J. Reynolds and his progressive wife Katharine Reynolds, on whose 300 acres of property Wake Forest now stands.