Teacher-Scholar Legacies: Rebecca Thomas

Professor of German Dr. Rebecca Thomas’ career has been quite the adventure. A native Californian, Rebecca completed her undergraduate and bachelor’s degrees at UCLA before moving eastward to pursue her doctoral degree at Ohio State. After working abroad and perfecting her Bavarian dialect in Bad Feilnbach in 1979, she received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1992. She then nurtured her zeal and love of teaching German through positions at Georgia Tech and at Georgia Southern before Professors Larry West and Tim Sellner convinced her to join the Wake Forest faculty in 1993. Over the next 32 years, she would become a model of the teacher-scholar ideal in the Department of German and Russian, a generous and compassionate guide to generations of students, a dedicated scholar, and one of the most respected and beloved members of the Wake Forest community. We have all come to know her warmth, sharp wit, understanding, and her unyielding dedication to the profession. 

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