Graduate Faculty

Anne P. Massey, Dean and Thomas O'Brien Endowed Chair Operations & Information Management, BS, Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, May 1982, MS, Industrial Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, December 1984, PhD, Decision Sciences & Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, May 1991.

Brett H. Albert, Lecturer, Sport Management, B.S., Penn State, 2012; M.B.A./M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2017

Agha Iqbal Ali, Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.Sc., University of Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1970; M.A., M.S., Ball State, 1976; M.S., Southern Methodist, 1978; Ph.D., 1980.

Christopher Agoglia, Richard H. Simpson Endowed Professor, B.S., Florida Atlantic, 1989; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1999.

Priyank Arora, Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, Bachelor of Engineering, University of Delhi, 2007, Post-Graduate Program in Management (equivalent to MBA), Indian School of Business, 2012, PhD in Operations Management, Scheller College of Business , Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018.

Orhan Akisik, Senior Lecturer, B.A., Bosphorus University, Turkey, 1982; M.A., 1984; Ph.D., Stuttgart University, Germany, 1989

Abdallah (Albert) G. Assaf, Professor, Hadelman Family Faculty Fellow & PhD Coordinator Hospitality & Tourism Management, B.S., American University of Science and Technology, 2002; M.S., University of Western Sydney, Australia, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

Melissa Baker, Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management, B.A., Cornell, 2002; M.S., Virginia Tech, 2010; Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2013.

Carey Baldwin, Lecturer of Operations and Information Management, BA in Physics, Mount Holyoke College, 2002, M.A.S. Applied Statistics, Colorado State, 2016

Rudolph Bedeley, Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.Sc., Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Tech (KNUST), 2007; M.C.E., Delaware, 2010; M.S., 2013; Ph.D., North Carolina, 2017.

Bradley Bennett, Associate Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Millsaps College, 2001; M.Acc., 2001; Ph.D., Alabama, 2012.

Jeremiah W. Bentley, Assistant Professor of Accounting, B.S., Brigham Young, 2010. M.A., 2010. M.S., Cornell, 2015. Ph.D., 2016.

Michael Blomfield, Assistant Professor of Management, B.A., Oxford, 2007; M.P.P., Harvard, 2011; Ph.D., London Business School, 2020.

Kerri Bohonowicz,Lecturer, B.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006; M.S.A., 2007.

Thomas Brashear-Alejandro, Associate Professor of Marketing, B.A., Kentucky, 1989; B.A., Centre College, 1992; M.B.A., Eastern Kentucky, 1992; M.S., Georgia State, 1996; Ph.D., 1998.

William D. Brown, Jr., Associate Dean for Finance, Operations, & Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1997; Ph.D., 2002.

Michele Burch, Senior Lecturer of Operations & Information Management, B.S.M.E., Notre Dame, 1992; M.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996; Ph.D., 2008.

Fousseni Chabi-Yo, Associate Professor of Finance; PhD Coordinator for Finance, B.Sc., Universite Nationale du Benin, 1995; B.Sc., Universite Cheick Anta Diop, 1997, M.Sc., 1998; M.Sc., Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de I’Analyse Economique, 1998; Ph.D., Montreal, 2005.

Marta B. Calás,Professor of Management, B.B.A., Puerto Rico, 1966; M.B.A., California at Berkeley, 1970; Ph.D. Massachusetts, 1987.

Jeffrey Clark, Lecturer of Finance, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988; MBA, Georgia, 1997.

Elizabeth B. Delia, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, B.S., SUNY New Paltz, 2006; MBA, 2007; Ph.D., Florida State, 2015.

Linda K. Enghagen,Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, B.A., Wisconsin at Eau Claire; 1975; J.D., Suffolk University Law School, 1981.

Robert Feingold, Lecturer of Finance, B.S., Georgetown, 1990; M.B.A., J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern, 1995.

Janet S. Fink, Associate Dean of Isenberg School of Management Undergraduate Programs and Diana Berthiaume Endowed Professor, Sport Management, B.A., Ohio State, 1988; M.S., 1994; Ph.D., 1997

Graham Gal, Associate Professor of Accounting, B.A., Michigan, 1975; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1985.

Ahmed Ghoniem, Associate Professor of Operations & Information Management, M.S., Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, 2002; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

David Matthew Godfrey, Assistant Professor Marketing, B.A., Brigham Young, 2011; M.A., University of Calgary, 2014; Ph.D., Arizona, 2019.

Emily Heaphy, Associate Professor of Management, B.A., Wellesley College, 1997; Ph.D., Michigan, 2008.

Traci Hess,Associate Dean, Graduate and Professional Programs and Berthiaume Professor of Information Systems, Operations & Information Management, B.S., Virginia, 1988; M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1997; Ph.D., 1999.

Weizhao Simon Huang, Assistant Professor of Finance, B.A., California at Berkeley, 2003 M.A., 2004; Ph.D., Yale, 2015.

Easwar S. Iyer, Professor of Marketing, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1971; M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, 1973; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1984.

Charles J. Johnson, Clinical Associate Professor & Associate Director of the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship Management, B.A., Trinity College, 1978; JD, Virginia, 1982.

Nora Junaid,, Lecturer of Operations & Information Management, B.S., Lebanese American University, 2008; MBA, 2010; Ph.D., Bentley, 2017.

Yoon Ju Kang, Associate Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Ewha Womans University, South Korea, 2003; M.Acc., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006; Ph.D., 2012.

Nikunj Kapadia, Department Chair & Professor of Finance, B.E., Maharaja Sayajirao, India, 1984; M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1986; M.Phil., Stern School of Business, 1993; Ph.D., 1995.

Matthew Katz, Undergraduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Sport Management, B.A., Muhlenerg College, 2009; M.S., Louisiana State, 2011; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2014.

Hossein B. Kazemi, Michael and Cheryl Phillip Professor of Finance, B.A., National Iranian Oil Company College of Accounting and Finance, 1977; M.S., Eastern Michigan, 1979; Ph.D., Michigan, 1985; C.F.A., 1996.

Jennifer Kish-Gephart, Associate Professor of Management, B.S., Drexel, 2000; M.B.A., Drexel, 2002; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 2010.

Ahmed Ghoniem, Associate Professor of Operations & Information Management, M.S., Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, 2002; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2003; Ph.D., 2007.

Andrew Kitto, Assistant Professor, B.S., Boston College, 2008; M.S., 2009; Visiting Scholar-University of Melbourne, 2015; Ph.D., Florida, 2017.

Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Berthiaume Chair in Business Leadership and Professor of Management, A.B., Harvard, 1989; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1998.

Bing Liang, Charles P. McQuaid Endowed Professor in Finance and Program Director, M.Fin. in Alternative Investments, B.Sc., Ocean University of Qingdao, China, 1982; M.S., Chinese Academy of Science, 1988; M.S., Iowa, 1990; Ph.D., 1995.

Matthew P. Linn, Assistant Professor of Finance, B.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, England, 2004; Ph.D. Michigan, 2009; Ph.D, 2015.

Ying Liu,Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.E., School of Telecommunications, Beijing; Ph.D., Arizona State, 2018.

Catherine West Lowry, Senior Lecturer of Accounting, B.A. Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996. M.B.A., 2001.

Linda L. Lowry, Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, M.A., George Washington, Washington, D.C.; 1986; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1991

Jintao (Emily) Ma, Associate Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management, B.A., Zhejiang, 2005; M.S., HK Polytechnic, 2006; Ph.D., Oklahoma State, 2010; Grad. Cert. Higher Ed., Griffith, 2013.

Wenting Ma, Assistant Professor of Finance, B.A., Xiamen, China 2011; MS., North Carolina at Charlotte, 2013; MS., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017; Ph.D., 2019.

Mzamo P. Mangaliso, Associate Professor of Management, B.Sc., University of Fort Hare, South Africa, 1974; M.B.A., Cornell, 1984; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988.

Charles C. Manz, Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership, Management, B.A., Michigan State, 1974; M.B.A., 1975; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1981.

Lisa Pike Masteralexis, Senior Associate Dean, Sport Management, B.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987; J.D., Suffolk Law School, 1990.

Mark A. McDonald,Associate Professor, Sport Management, B.S., Warren Wilson College, 1985; M.B.A., Tulane University, 1988; M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1991; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996

Steve McKelvey, Department Chair and Professor of Sport Management, B.A., Amherst, 1981. M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986. J.D., Seton Hall School of Law, 1992.

E. Nicole Melton, Associate Department Chair and Associate Professor, B.B.A., Texas A&M, 2005; M.S., 2009; Ph.D., 2012.

Elizabeth G. Miller, Department Chair, Marketing PhD Coordinator and Professor of Marketing, B.A., Cornell, 1998; M.A., Pennsylvania, 2001; Ph.D., 2003.

George R. Milne, Associate Dean of Research, Carney Family Endowed Professor of Marketing and Director of Doctoral Programs, B.S., Utah, 1982; M.A., 1984; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990.

W. Timothy Mitchell, Associate Department Chair and Clinical Professor of Accounting, B.S.B.A., Auburn, 1987. Ph.D., Kentucky, 2008.

Thomas Moliterno, Professor of Management, B.A., William & Mary, 1989; M.A., Kentucky, 1991; M.B.A., Boston, 1999; Ph.D., California at Irvine, 2005.

Emily Must, Director of Internships and Lecturer of Sport Management, B.S., Barry University, 2006. M.S., 2015. Ph.D. (ABD), Northern Colorado, 2017.

Anna B. Nagurney, Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies and Professor of Operations & Information Management, Sc.B., Brown, 1977; A.B., 1977; Sc.M., 1980; Ph.D., 1983.

Robert A. Nakosteen, Professor, B.A., Colorado, 1970; M.A., Michigan, 1971; Ph.D., Tennessee, 1978.

Sanjay K. Nawalkha, Professor of Finance, B.Sc., University of Bombay, India, 1984; M.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987; Ph.D., 1990.

William A. Norton, Lecturer and Director of McCormack Center for Research, Sport Management, B.A., The College of Wooster, 2006; M.B.A./M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2012

M. David Piercey, John Kennedy Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting, B.S., Brigham Young, 1999; M.Acc., 1999; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

Feng Qiu, Assistant Professor of Management, B.B.A., Wenzhou University, China, 2012; M.B.A., Oregon State, 2015; Ph.D. Oregon, 2020.

Orlando Richard, Dean’s Research Professor of Management, B.S., Louisiana Tech, 1991; M.B.A., Grambling State, 1993; Ph.D., Kentucky, 1997; Post-Doc, MIT, 1997.

Alan G. Robinson, Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.A., M.A., Cambridge, 1980; M.S.E., Johns Hopkins, 1983; Ph.D., 1986.

Jennifer Roy, Lecturer, B.S. Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 1995; Juris Doctor, Western New England College School of Law, 2006.

Lynda Schwartz, Lecturer & Forensic Accounting and Analytics Program Director, C.P.A., Fellow, Life Management Institute, B.B.A. University of Massachusetts Isenberg School, Commonwealth Scholar.

Anurag Sharma, Associate Professor of Management, B.S., Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, 1983; M.B.A., Virginia, 1988; Ph.D., North Carolina, 1993.

Zachary Sheffler, Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, BA History, California at San Diego, 2008; MBA Finance, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 2012; PhD., Minnesota, 2018.

Atul Sheel, Associate Department Chair and>Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, B.S., University of Delhi, India; M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1986; Ph.D., 1995.

Mila Getmansky Sherman, Professor of Finance, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998; Ph.D., 2004.

Matthew Sherwood, Assistant Professor of Accounting, B.S., Michigan at Dearborn, 2001. Ph.D., Kansas, 2016.

Bruce Skaggs, Flavin Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Professor of Strategic Management and Chair of the Department of Management, B.B.A., Kentucky, 1990; M.B.A., Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1992; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1999.

Shirley Shmerling, Senior Lecturer II of Operations & Information Management, B.S., Israel Institute of Technology, 1985; M.S., 1987; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994.

Senay Solak, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, B.S., Electrical Engineering, United States Naval Academy, 1997; M.S., Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002; Ph.D., 2007.

Monideepa Tarafdar, The Charles Dockendorff Professor of Operations and Information Management, B.S., St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta, India, 1991; Bachelor of Technology (Graduate Degree), University of Calcutta, India, 1994; Ph.D, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India, 2002.

Jim Theroux, Professor of Management, B.A., Wisconsin, 1970, M.B.A., Harvard, 1982, Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1974.

Pamela Trafford, Senior Lecturer II, B.A., Montana, 1977; M.B.A., 1982.

David Tyler, Associate Professor, Sport Management, B.A., Notre Dame, 2001; M.B.A./M.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006; Ph.D., 2013.

Muzzo Uysal, Professor; Department Chair of Hospitality & Tourism Management, B.A., Ankara University Turkey, 1977; M.S., New Haven at Connecticut, 1980; Ph.D., Texas A&M

Cristina Vlas, Assistant Professor of Management, B.S., Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, 2001; M.B.A., Nebraska at Omaha, 2006; Ph.D., Texas at Dallas, 2018.

Radu Vlas, Lecturer, Operations and Information Management, B.S., Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, 2001; MS, Indiana, 2004; MBA, Nebraska at Omaha, 2006; Ph.D., Georgia State, 2012.

Nefertiti A. Walker, Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Associate Professor of Sport Management, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, B.A., Stetson, 2005. M.B.A., 2006. Ph.D., Florida, 2011.

Sean Wandrei, M.S.A. Program Director & Senior Lecturer, B.S., Bryant, 1996; M.S., Hartford, 2011.

Elaine (Ying) Wang, Dean's Research Professor and Associate Professor of Accounting, B.A., Renmin University of China, 2006; Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, China, 2011.

Rodney Warnick, Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, B.S., Frostburg State, 1975; M.S., Montana, 1976; M.R.P., Pennsylvania State, 1982; Ph.D., 1983.

Bruce Weinberg, Professor of Marketing, B.A., Boston, 1981; M.B.A., 1985; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

John D. Wells, Senior Vice Provost for Life Long Learning and Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.B.A., Oklahoma, 1988; M.S., Texas A&M, 1994; Ph.D., Texas A & M, 1999.

Yao Yu, Assistant Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Xiamen University, China, 2009; Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2015.

Kathleen Zilch, Lecturer of Operations & Information Management, B.S. Providence College, 2004; M.S. Bentley, 2008; Ph.D., Southern New Hampshire, 2014.

Yi Zou, Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, B.Sc., Shanghai for Science & Technology, China, 2005; M.E.C., Dalhousie, Canada, 2007; Ph.D., Queen's University, Canada, 2016.

Faculty Emeriti

Wynn Abranovic, Professor Emeritus of Finance and Operations Management (2002).

Richard J. Asebrook, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2011).

Alexander Barges, Professor Emeritus of Finance and Operations Management (1995).

Ben S. Branch, Professor of Finance (2018).

D. Anthony Butterfield, Professor Emeritus of Management (2018).

Sidney Claunch, Professor Emeritus (1986).

William D. Diamond, Associate Professor Emeritus of Marketing (2018).

Pieter T. Elgers, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2013).

Arthur Elkins, Professor Emeritus of Management (1989).

Steven Floyd, Professor Emeritus of Management (2018).

Richard H. Hartzler, Professor Emeritus of General Business and Finance (1981).

Ronald J. Karren, Professor Emeritus of Management.

Thomas Kida, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2014).

Anthony T. Krzystofik, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (1992).

Bertil Liander, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (1991).

Ronald C. Mannino, Associate Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2010).

Robert D. Marx, Professor Emeritus of Management (1971).

Thomas O’Brien, Dean Emeritus (2006).

Robert Plattner, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Joseph L. Sardinas, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2015).

Linda Shea, Professor Emeritus of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2018).

Charles D. Schewe, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (2015).

Thomas Schneeweis, Professor Emeritus of Finance (2013)

Richard H. Simpson, Professor Emeritus of Accounting (2009).

Linda Smircich, Professor Emeritus of Management (2020).

James F. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Accounting.

Donald E. Stone, Associate Professor Emeritus of Accounting (1996).

Marc Weinberger, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (2011).

Robert H. Wilson, Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management.

Jack Wolf, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (1988).

Glenn Wong, Professor Emeritus of Sport Management (2015).

William R. Wooldridge, Professor Emeritus of Management (2018).

Parker M. Worthing, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (1998).