Corey D. B. Walker

• Dean and Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University

A scholar committed to a broad and inclusive vision of human flourishing, Corey D. B. Walker is Dean of the School of Divinity, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and Inaugural Director of the Program in African American Studies at Wake Forest University. As one of the nation's distinguished scholars, the Phi Beta Kappa Society selected Dean Walker as the 2023-2024 Phi Beta Kappa Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar. His research, teaching, and public scholarship span the areas of American and African American thought and culture, critical theory, ethics, and religion and American public life. An accomplished scholar and academic leader, he has held faculty and academic leadership appointments at Brown University, University of Virginia, Virginia Union University, and Winston-Salem State University and visiting professorships at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Union Presbyterian Seminary, University of Richmond and Williams College. He is author and editor of several books and has published over seventy articles, essays, and book chapters in a wide variety of scholarly journals and publications. A much sought after speaker, Dr. Walker engages congregations and communities across the nation and has appeared on a variety of media programs in the United States and abroad.

• –present Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

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