Dean of the College. Michele Gillespie Records
Michele Gillespie is a history professor, Dean of the College (2015-2022) and Provost (2022-) at Wake Forest University. She was the Dean of the College from 2015-2022. This collection contains election memorandums, faculty updates, email newsletters, remarks, event planning, committee recommendations, and faculty guidelines.
Biographical and Historical Note
Michele Gillespie joined the Wake Forest faculty in 1999 as a history professor. She received her B.A in English and History from Rice University in 1983 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990. Since arriving, Gillespie has been named the Kahle Associate Professor in 2004, Associate Provost in 2007, and Presidential Endowed Chair of Southern History in 2013. She became Dean of the College in 2015 and served in that role until 2022, when she moved up to Provost. As Dean of the College, Gillespie launched a five-year college-wide Diversity Action Plan, co-chaired the President's First Year Experience Commission, and implemented significant new academic programming, including the Wake Washington Program and Wake Downtown, and the Environment and Sustainability, African American Studies, Engineering, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology majors. She has since published two books, Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 (2000) and Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (2012).
Collection Overview
This collection relates to Gillespie's role as Dean of the College. Materials include election memorandums, faculty updates, email newsletters, remarks, event planning, committee recomendations, and faculty guidelines.
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by Helen Player, 2024
- Access Restrictions
- This collection is open for use.
- Copyright Notices
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- Preferred Citation
- Dean of the College. Michele Gillespie Records (RG 4.1.13), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.