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.

Farshid Abdi, Assistant Professor of Finance, B.Sc, Sharif University; M.Sc., Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL; Ph.D., University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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

Agha Iqbal Ali, Karen and Chuck Peters EndowedProfessor 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.

Orhan Akisik, Senior Lecturer II, Accounting, 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, Associate Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management & Department Chair, 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

Cynthia Barstow, Senior Lecturer of Marketing, AS, Massachusetts at Amherst; MS; BS, Syracuse.

Bradley Bennett, Ronald C. Mannino Faculty Fellow, Department Chair and Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Millsaps College, 2001; M.Acc., 2001; Ph.D., Alabama, 2012.

Jeremiah W. Bentley, Richard Dieter MS ‘66 & Susan C. Dieter Faculty Fellow and Associate 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, Senior Lecturer, B.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2006; M.S.A., 2007.

Susan Boyer, Director of Instructional Technologies; Lecturer of Operations and Information Management, B.S., Utah, 1985; M.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1999.

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., Senior Associate Dean for Finance, Operations, Strategic Initiatives, Clinical Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1997; Ph.D., 2002.

Michele Burch, Senior Lecturer of Operations & Information Management; Associate Department Chair, 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; Department Chair, 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.

Frank Caruso, Senior Lecturer, AS, Massachusetts at Amherst; BA, SUNY Oswego, 1977; JD, Western New England, 1981.

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

Elizabeth B. Delia, Associate Professor of Sport Management; Honors Program Director & PhD Coordinator, B.S., SUNY New Paltz, 2006; MBA, 2007; Ph.D., Florida State, 2015.

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.

Jessica Fydenkevez, Director of Organizational Analytics & Assessment & Adjunct Lecturer, BA, Rochester 2007; MA, Clark, 2010; MBA, Massachusetts at Amherst, 2023.

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

Ginnie Gardiner, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance, BSBA, Southern Mississippi, 1980; MBA, 1981; Ph.D., Georgia, 1988.

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

Matthew Glennon, Senior Lecturer of Marketing, BS, Connecticut, 1990; MBA, Massachusetts at Amherst, 2003.

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

Zahi Haddad, Adjunct Lecturer, AS, Springfield Technical Community College, 1980; BS, Western New England, 1982; MS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1984.

Lina Han, Assistant Professor of Finance, B.S., Chongqing University, 2012; M.S., Chicago, 2013; Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2021.

Emily Heaphy, Associate Professor of Management and John F. Kennedy Faculty Fellow, B.A., Wellesley College, 1997; Ph.D., Michigan, 2008.

Brian Hentz, Senior Lecturer and Business Communication Center Director, B.S., West Chester, 1992; M.A., Oklahoma, 1996; MBA, Iowa State, 2005; Ph.D., Connecticut, 2016.

Traci Hess, Senior Associate Dean, Douglas and Diana Berthiaume Professor of Information Systems, Operations & Information Management; Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs, 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.

Alicia Johnson, Assistant Professor of Marketing, BBA, SUNY Canton, 2011; MBA, Clarkson, 2015; Ph.D., Arkansas, 2022.

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, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, 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., Muhlenberg College, 2009; M.S., Louisiana State, 2011; Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 2014.

Hossein B. Kazemi, Michael and Cheryl Phillip Professor of Finance; Director of CISDM, 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.

Andrew Kitto, Assistant Professor of Accounting, 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, Professor of Management and PhD Coordinator for 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.

Oscar Lopez, Lecturer of Operations & Information Management, B.A.., Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2000; M.Ed., M.S., Grand Valley State, 2005; MBA, Florida Atlantic, 2011; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 2022.

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

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.

Charles Macaulay, Assistant Professor, Sport Management, B.A., British Columbia, 2014; M.A., Connecticut, 2017; Ph.D., 2021.

Marco Macchiavelli, Assistant Professor of Finance, BA., University of Balogna, 2008; M.A., 2010; Ph.D., Boston College, 2015.
Jennifer Merton, Associate Department Chair, Law Lecturer Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Management, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1987; J.D., Connecticut School of Law, 1990.

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.

Veronica Martin-Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Marketing, , B.A., Universidad de Granada, 2002; Ph.D, 2004; M.A., Middlebury Institute of International Studies, 2008; MBA, Iowa State, 2014; Ph.D., 2021.

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

Jennifer Merton, Associate Department Chair, Law Lecturer Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Management, B.A., Mount Holyoke, 1987; J.D., Connecticut School of Law, 1990.

Elizabeth G. Miller, Department Chair 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, Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, B.S.B.A., Auburn, 1987. Ph.D., Kentucky, 2008.

Anahit Mkrtchyan, Associate Professor of Finance, B.A. Yerevan State University, 1997; M.A.., American University of Armenia, 1999; MBA, Vanderbilt, 2006; Ph.D., Penn State, 2013.

Emily Must, Director of Internships and Senior 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, PhD Coordinator and Professor of Operations & Information Management, Sc.B., Brown, 1977; A.B., 1977; Sc.M., 1980; Ph.D., 1983.

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.

Irem Onder Neuhofer, Associate Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999; MSc, Ferris State, 2002; Ph.D., Clemson, 2008.

M. David Piercey, John F. Kennedy Endowed Professor, B.S., Brigham Young, 1999; M.Acc., 1999; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

Bogdan Prokopovych, Senior Lecturer of Management, Specialist (Bachelors+1 year), Poltava State Pedagogical University, Poltava, Ukraine, 1998; MPPM, Pittsburgh, 2004; Ph.D., Rhode Island, 2012.

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

Jeffrey Radighieri, Adjunct Lecturer, BBA, Texas A&M, 1997; MBA, Montana, 1999; Ph.D., Washington State 2010.

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.

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

Lynda Schwartz, Professor of Practice, Director of Forensic Accounting and Data Analytics Curriculum, 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 & Judith Wilkinson O'Connell Faculty Fellow of Finance; Associate Director of CISDM, 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.

Ali Shirzadeh, Lecturer of Operations & Information Management, B.Sc., Sharif University of Technology, 2002; MSc., 2008; Ph.D., 2014.

Sara Smiarowski, Lecturer of Finance, B.S., Truman State, 2003; MSA, Massachusetts at Amherst, 2017.

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

Katherine Sveinson, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, BS, University of Regina, Canada, 2012; MS, 2014; Ph.D., 2019.

Monideepa Tarafdar, The Charles Dockendorff Professor of Operations and Information Management; PhD Coordinator, 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.

Matthew Thomson, Professor of Marketing & PhD Coordinator, BA, McGill University, Canada, 1995; MBA, Indiana, 1998; Ph.D., Southern California, 2004.

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

Rachel Trafford, Adjunct Lecturer, BBA, Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005; MBA/MPPA, 2011.

Silvia Triani, Lecturer Accounting, B.S., University of Parma, 2009; M.B.A., University of Parma, 2011; Ph.D. University of Parma, 2018

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 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.

Susan Wahab, Adjunct Lecturer, BS, Rider, 1986; MBA, Hartford, 1991; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996.

Nefertiti A. Walker, Vice Chancellor for Quity and 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, Senior Lecturer Accounting, B.S., Bryant, 1996; M.S., Hartford, 2011.

Elaine (Ying) Wang, James P. O'Connell Endowed 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.

Yanfen (Cindy) You, Assistant Professor of Marketing, B.S., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, 2009; M.S., 2012; Ph.D., Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2018.

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

Wei Zhang, Assistant Professor of Accounting, B.B.A., Nanchang University, 2005; MAcc., City University of New York, 2013; Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2019.

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 (2013).

Sidney Claunch, Professor Emeritus (1986).

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

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

Linda K. Enghagen, Professor Emeritus of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2023).

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

Easwar Iyer, Professor Emeritus of Marketing (2022).

Ronald J. Karren, Professor Emeritus of Management (2018).

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 (2014).

Robert A. Nakosteen, Professor Emeritus of Operations and Information Management (2021).

Thomas O’Brien, Dean Emeritus (2006).

Robert Plattner, Professor Emeritus (1990).

Alan Robinson, Professor Emeritus of Operations Management (2023).

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).

Larry Zacharias, Professor Emeritus of Management (2016).