Faculty Fellowships

updated 1.21.25

Internal Fellowships

The Wake Forest College Faculty Fellowships are fellowships that honor our best teacher-scholars. Chairs and senior faculty are encouraged to submit nominations for faculty within their departments. All nominations must be endorsed by the chair via a brief email or addendum indicating knowledge and support. Before nominating: please be sure to look at the Helpful Tips below.

Eligibility and Qualifications:

Tenure Track Faculty and Tenured Faculty: Nominees should have distinguished themselves as excellent university citizens. They should be particularly dedicated and successful teachers and mentors in their disciplines as well as demonstrate a strong record of scholarly or creative activity. Typically, qualified tenure track faculty will also have demonstrated involvement in and recognition by external organizations in their disciplines.

Full-time Career Teaching Professionals: Nominees should have distinguished themselves as excellent university citizens. They should be particularly dedicated and successful teachers and mentors in their disciplines. Typically, qualified teaching professionals will also have demonstrated involvement in and recognition by external organizations committed to the teaching of their disciplines.

Helpful Tips

The letter from the chair/senior faculty member is a fundamental source of what evaluators have to base their decision. Please ensure that the letter is detailed and descriptive when discussing the extent that the applicant:

• has a dynamic research agenda with strong evidence of producing scholarship and/or creative work (appropriate to their rank and discipline)
• is carrying out research and/or creative work that is impactful (appropriate to rank)
• demonstrates excellence in the classroom (please describe, in 1-2 sentences, your department/program’s process for evaluating teaching) and provide a summary of relevant evidence for the candidate such as numerical teaching evaluations or open-ended responses, peer observations, active engagement with the CAT, teaching awards, or significant engagement with pedagogical best practices for the discipline). These teaching materials should be limited to no more than one page in length.
• actively mentors and/or engages with students. Please provide a description, specific instances, etc. At the senior level, the applicant may actively mentor junior colleagues.
• includes service to a department and to the broader Wake Forest community. For tenure-stream faculty, this may also include service to the profession such as holding positions in editorial boards and external organizations, curating exhibits, organizing national or international conferences, etc. For teaching professionals, this may include involvement in, and recognition by, external organizations committed to the teaching of their disciplines.

Current Faculty Fellowship Recipients