Bio
Elizabeth Whiting is Director for Leadership and Character Formation in the School of Medicine. She earned a Ph.D. in Ethics and Society from Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion, concentrating in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Before coming to Wake Forest University, Dr. Whiting taught ethics and served as the director of the Center for Ethics at Mars Hill University, and managed the CREATE (Culture, Religion, Ethics, and the Environment) Project at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. Questions regarding emotion’s place in the goals and methods of character education animate her current academic writing projects. A primary aim of her teaching is to equip leaders to generously and constructively engage conflicts arising in their professional settings and in society at large.