Faculty Work

Smithsonian Displays WFU Research Addressing Global Challenges

Posted on October 10, 2017

Wake Forest University has participated in a yearlong process with the Atlantic Coast Conference, partner ACC universities, and the Smithsonian Institution to create the first “ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival.” Presented by Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the ACCelerate Festival is three-day celebration of creative exploration and research at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design. Visitors to the festival will interact with leading innovators from ACC universities and engage with new interdisciplinary technologies that drawRead More→

Jordan Green Addresses Political Extremism, Culture Wars and Race Relations

Posted on June 4, 2017

Jordan Green is the senior editor of Triad City Beat and has also had his work appear in The Nation, The Guardian and Scalawag. His interests include political extremism, rural America, race relations, poverty, voting rights and culture wars.  He addressed the protests in Charlottesville in his piece “In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again” for The Nation.  Green wrote about a conservative activists’ gathering in Kernersville for Triad City Beat in “Local Conservative Activists PrepareRead More→

Phoebe Zerwick Writes About Abortion, Darryl Hunt and Refugees

Posted on February 15, 2017

Phoebe Zerwick, Program Director and Associate Professor of journalism, has written for a range of magazine publications and produces web-based documentary. Her piece “The Rise of the DIY Abortion” for Glamour magazine features the voices of women who had taken matters into their own hands to end an unwanted pregnancy.  She explores Darryl Hunt’s life after exoneration in “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt.” Zerwick gets close with a refugee family in National Geographic‘s “Fleeing War, a Syrian Family Makes aRead More→

Maria Henson Addresses Domestic Violence in Kentucky

Posted on September 10, 2016

Maria Henson is a part-time lecturer in journalism and oversees Wake Forest Magazine. She also serves on Advancement’s senior leadership team. Henson joined Wake Forest as Associate Vice President and Editor-at-Large in June 2010.   In 1991, Henson wrote a series of investigative editorials entitled “To Have and To Harm” that addressed the trials faced by battered women in Kentucky. For this, Henson was awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.   Read about her motivation for this seriesRead More→

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