Curricula Vitae in Moore Sch - Dean's Office

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Sanjay L. Ahire Professor	Empirical evaluation of operations improvement strategies, Practical application of operations improvement techniques, Application of operations strategy and supply chain management principles to OM academics	Dr. Ahire's research interests include conceptual and empirical analysis for operations and business process improvement strategies, including Lean, Six Sigma, business process reengineering, and supply chain optimization. He has conducted descriptive and prescriptive research and has also undertaken research to identify linkages among various strategies and approaches to improving operations and processes.
Giuliano Almeida Marodin Clinical Professor	Lean and Operational Excellence in Supply Chain Management	Dr. Giuliano Almeida Marodin's research interests are in Lean and Operational Excellence in Supply Chain Management. His research has being published in operational management journals, such as International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management and International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, and also in proceedings of POMS and INFORMS annual meetings.
Priyank Arora Associate Professor	empowering domestic violence survivors and homeless individuals, those administering organ transplantation and child care subsidy programs, farm equipment sharing platforms in emerging economies	Priyank Arora is an assistant professor of management science at the Moore School. Priyank is interested in advancing the understanding of operational decision-making within and across organizations that are motivated by social and environmental considerations (such as, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Currently, Priyank’s research on socially responsible operations is defined around two streams: nonprofit operations and sustainability.
Chelsea R Austin Associate Professor	Taxation, Determinants and consequences of tax avoidance decisions, Financial reporting tax benefits from stock options	Dr. Chelsea Rae Austin teaches undergraduate taxation. Dr. Austin’s primary research interest is taxation, especially the determinants and consequences of tax avoidance decisions. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. Austin spent three years as a tax accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ross Bagley Lecturer		Ross Bagley serves as the managing director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program. In this role, he helps to recruit students for the program and works with the students on practicum engagements with companies in addition to assisting with placement for these students. He also teaches classes in business analytics and management sciences.
Allen N. Berger Professor	Financial Institutions, Finance, Econometrics	Allen N. Berger is the H. Montague Osteen, Jr., Professor of Banking and Finance, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina; Senior Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center; Extramural Fellow, CentER, Tilburg University; and Secretary/Treasurer, Financial Intermediation Research Society. Mr. Berger also currently serves on the editorial boards of five professional economics and finance journals.
Sjoerd Beugelsdijk Professor		Sjoerd Beugelsdijk holds the J. Willis Cantey Chair and is professor in international business and economics at the Darla Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina. He is an expert on economic (de-)globalization and cultural and institutional differences. Beugelsdijk has held visiting positions at several universities including Copenhagen Business School, Bocconi University, and KU-Leuven, and holds an honorary chair in international business at the University of Groningen.
Paul D Bliese Department Chair/Professor	Stress, Leadership, Performance	Dr. Paul D. Bliese is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Management Department of the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He is also an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and has previously served as an invited Editor for Organizational Research Methods.
Barbara L. Bolt Clinical Associate Professor		Barbara L. Bolt is an adjunct instructor at the Darla Moore School of Business. Barbara's professional background includes over a decade managing public use programs for both the National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She received an M.A. in literature from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 2003. Currently teaching Professional Communication in the Moore School, Barbara is also pursuing a doctoral degree in the USC Department of English.
Dr. Katrice Malcom Branner Clinical Assistant Professor	Small Business	Katrice Branner is a clinical assistant professor at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to joining academia, Katrice spent over 20 years in industry as the president of a small business consulting firm, a Senior Vice President at Bank of America, and as a chemical engineer at The Dow Chemical Company. Her research focus areas are small business and entrepreneurship. She earned her doctorate from UNC Charlotte, her MBA from Vanderbilt, and her BS in ChE from the University of Tennessee.
Susan Blake Brinson Lecturer		Susan Brinson joined the Moore School as an accounting lecturer in fall 2018. She received her bachelor's in business administration and Master of Accountancy degrees from the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the School of Accounting, she served as an adjunct instructor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte. She has also worked in public accounting and for a major financial institution.
Jessica Hedrich Brown Assistant Professor	economics of the child care market	Jessica H. Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests are labor economics and public economics. Her current research projects focus primarily on the economics of the child care market. She currently teaches econometrics.
Timothy J. Brown Associate Professor	investor decision making, audit judgment and decision-making, the effects of advice from internal auditors and how contextual factors change juror perceptions	Tim Brown is an associate professor in the School of Accounting at the Darla Moore School of Business. He joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2020, coming from the University of Illinois. His teaching interests and experience include both financial accounting and financial statement analysis, and his classes were included in a university-wide list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at the University of Illinois for 8 consecutive years.
Dr. Nancy R. Buchan Associate Professor	The development and maintenance of trust and cooperation across cultures	Nancy Buchan is an Associate Professor in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business. Dr. Buchan's key research interest is the building and maintenance of fairness, trust and cooperation in cross-cultural relationships.
Allison Byxbe Lecturer		Allison Byxbe teaches Professional Communication for the Darla Moore School of Business. Previously she taught for the University of South Carolina's First Year English program, and she also taught business and technical writing courses for the English department. Her recent research, funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, examines the relationship between learning technical writing skills and learning content material in the area of nanotechnology.
Anjelita Cadena Clinical Assistant Professor		Anjelita Cadena is a clinical assistant professor of real estate at the Darla Moore School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Texas San Antonio, an MBA in finance from the University of Denver, and a B.S. in mathematics from Texas A&M University Kingsville.
Geoffrey Carr Clinical Assistant Professor	Modeling macroeconomic labor dynamics over business cycles	Geoffrey B. Carr holds B.S. degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Wyoming. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia in 2022 and joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in the same year.
Kealy B Carter Clinical Associate Professor	Sustainability, Marketing strategy	Kealy Carter is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Darla Moore School of Business. Her research interests are in the area of sustainability and marketing strategy. Kealy has six years of work experience in logistics and supply chain industries, including logistics, planning and sales positions at CHEP, a global equipment pooling company, and marketing product management for FedEx.
Mark S. Cecchini Associate Dean	Accounting/Information Systems, Financial Events Prediction, Automatic Text Analysis and its application to financial accounting issues	Mark Cecchini is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. While his primary teaching and research interest is accounting information systems, Dr. Cecchini is also interested in machine learning theory and applications (SVM), data management and information retrieval, IS strategy, and database/systems analysis and design/telecommunications.
Yogesh Chavda Lecturer		Yogesh Chavda is a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing, Darla Moore School of Business.
Bentley Coffey Clinical Assistant Professor		Bentley Coffey is a Department of Economics Clinical Assistant Professor for the Darla Moore School of Business.
Wendi DU Assistant Professor
Julian Dalzell Senior Lecturer	Human Resources	Mr. Dalzell began his career in line assignments in the UK in 1968 and moved into Labor Relations on a full time basis in 1975. Mr. Dalzell was appointed to his final role in January 2010 when he held and accountability for HR Operations for all Shell's businesses in the US. He retired at the end of 2010 and joined the Faculty of the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina in January 2011, where he teaches HR in the Global Firm at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Brent Steven Daulton Lecturer	Accounting, Fraud and forensics, Ethical decision-making	Brent Daulton earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from Newberry College and his master's degree in accounting from Florida Atlantic University. He is also a certified fraud examiner. He joined the Darla Moore School of Business in the fall of 2016 to teach managerial and cost accounting. Daulton's primary area of interest is in behavioral accounting, including fraud and forensics as well as issues surrounding ethical decision-making.
Patrick Demouy Senior Lecturer		Work primarily in the areas if strategic planning, market development, revenue generation, management development, and personnel management. The company provides consulting services to more than 250 municipalities in South Carolina along with several national companies. Developed and consults with the Municipal Association of South Carolina on statewide collection programs for municipalities.
William (Will) Diebel Assistant Professor
Yan Dong Professor	Supply chain management, Supply chain governance, Supply chain relationship	Dr. Yan Dong’s primary research interest is in supply chain management, with a focus on supply chain governance and relationship. His recent work studies product and service failure and recovery in supply chains, supply chain collaboration, global supply chains and outsourcing, and other topics in the marketing-operations interface.
Alireza Farnoush Clinical Assistant Professor		Alireza Farnoush is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Deparment of Management Science, Darla Moore School of Business. He earned a Ph.D. Industrial and System Engineering, Auburn University, M.S. Product and Process Development, Mälardalen University, and a B.S. Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology.
Blair Allyn Flicker Assistant Professor		Blair Flicker is an assistant professor of management science at the Moore School. He holds a doctoral degree in management science and an MBA from the University of Texas, Dallas. Flicker’s research is focused on understanding how to best integrate human and algorithmic decision making. Specific interests include behavioral operations management, judgmental forecasting, human-computer interaction and machine learning.
Timothy D. Fry Professor	Production Scheduling, Inventory Management, Opitmization Production Technology	Dr. Timothy Fry is Professor of Management Science at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. His research interests lie in the areas of production scheduling, inventory management, and optimization production technology.
Pearse C Gaffney Senior Lecturer	Lean implementations, Business transformations, New product introductions	Mr. Gaffney has worked in several different manufacturing sectors including automotive, industrial equipment and machinery, and most recently nuclear fuel. He has led global teams to implement strategic business change initiatives, with responsibilities in the US, Australia, Thailand, China, Italy and others. Mr. Gaffney’s research interests include lean implementations, six sigma deployments, business transformations and new product introductions.
Manpreet Singh Gill Assistant Professor	teaching marketing research, assessing and improving returns on firms’ strategic marketing actions	Manpreet Gill is an assistant professor of marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business He received his Ph.D. in marketing from the Pennsylvania State University.
John M. Gordanier Clinical Professor	Labor Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Economics	John Gordanier joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2007 after spending one year as a visiting assistant professor at Amherst College. His research interests are in personnel economics, labor economics and industrial organization. He is currently a member of the advisory panel for the Law Firm's Working Group, a cross-disciplinary group of researchers studying empirical aspects of law firms.
Geoffrey Graybeal Clinical Associate Professor		Geoffrey Graybeal is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Darla Moore School of Business.
Ryan Guggenmos Associate Professor
Abhijit Guha Associate Professor	Marketing	Abhijit Guha is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Abhijit has Ph.D. from Duke University and an MBA from INSEAD. He has published (or, has articles forthcoming) at the Journal of marketing, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Harvard Business Review etc.
Patrick D. Hanly Senior Instructor		Pat Hanly joined the Darla Moore School of Business in August 1999, after retiring from the US Army after 24 years. He brings the Moore School extensive leadership and management experience on an international scale and face-to-face contacts with foreign governments, corporations and individuals from around the world. His leadership experience is extensive and covers all areas of human interaction from routine to "in extremis" leadership.
Alexx Henley Lecturer		Alexx Henley is the Director and Master of Accountancy Lecturer in the Department of School of Accounting, Darla Moore School of Business.
Dr. Joshua Hadley Hess Clinical Associate Professor		Joshua H. Hess holds a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Arkansas and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University, specializing in Public Policy and Environmental and Resource Economics. He joined the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business in 2017.
Edwyna Hill Assistant Professor	mood and emotions, justice, and leadership in organizations	Edwyna Hill is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on mood and emotions, justice, and leadership in organizations. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she worked in healthcare administration.
Dr. David G. Hudgens Clinical Associate Professor	a formative study on international careers, mental health and resilience, language competence, international management and global contexts	David Hudgens is a clinical associate professor of international business in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Darla Moore School of Business. He has more than thirty years of experience as an international educator, researcher, clinician and counselor. His teaching and research projects are oriented to organizations and institutions of higher education worldwide, and address the fields of human development, economic development, cross-cultural communications.
Thomas Mazyck Hughes Senior Lecturer	Commercial law, Accounting	Tom Hughes has been a lecturer with the School of Accounting for the past 25 years. During this time, he has primarily taught the commercial law courses in the Darla Moore School of Business. He also teaches five courses a year with the Honors College. He has led student trips to England, Turkey and Greece. He has won seven Mortar Board awards, the Alfred G. Smith award and was named by the Princeton Review as one of "The Best 300 Professors in the United States" in 2012.
Juliana Iarossi Clinical Assistant Professor	New venture emergence, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Finance & Entrepreneurial Finance	Dr. Iarossi teaches entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, and finance. She began her career as an engineer, but spent over 20 years in financial services with some of the largest commercial and investment banks and is currently an active angel investor, mentor and board member for early stage companies and startup accelerator programs. Dr. Iarossi uses her experience and networks to further the research and practice of entrepreneurship to build viable and durable organizations
Elise C Ince Associate Professor	Linguistics	Elise Chandon's research examines how consumers process marketing material and marketing claims in the area of linguistics (language structure, meaning, phonetics and fluency). Her research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing Research.
Ozgur Ince Clinical Associate Professor	Corporate finance, Investments, Venture capital	Ozgur Ince is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Darla Moore School of Business. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and the Quarterly Journal of Finance. He has taught Introduction to Finance and Venture Capital at the undergraduate level, Derivatives at the MBA level, and Advanced Corporate Finance at the PhD level.
Carl Jenkinson Clinical Associate Professor		Carl Jenkinson is an instructor for the Department of Management, Center for Business Communication at the Darla Moore School of Business.
Joseph Johnson Assistant Professor		Joseph Johnson joined the University of South Carolina faculty in 2023. He previously taught at the University of Central Florida. His teaching interests include financial accounting and sustainability accounting. His research focuses on the judgment and decision-making of investors and managers, particularly as it relates to sustainability accounting and business ethics. He has published his research in journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Financial Reporting.
Jared W Jones Lecturer	Accounting	Jared Jones is the Director of the Master of Accountancy program and a Lecturer of Accounting. After receiving his B.S. in accounting & marketing from Coastal Carolina University in 2004, Jared held auditor positions (Staff Auditor, Audit Manager) at several accounting firms, before entering the University of South Carolina for his MACC degree. He is the faculty advisor for the MACC Student Association, and sits on the School of Accounting FAD Putnam Scholarship Committee.
Dr. Marki Michelle Jones Clinical Assistant Professor		Marki Jones is the Director, Center for International Business Education and Research and Clinical Assistant Professor, International Business in the Department of International Business, Darla Moore School of Business.
April Knill Professor		Dr. April Knill is the BPF Moore Fellow and Professor of International Finance at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Before joining the University of South Carolina, she was the Truist Professor of Finance at Florida State University. Prior to her time at Florida State, she was a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park.
Dr. Tatiana Kostova Professor	institutional and cultural embeddedness of multinational corporations, cross-border transfer of management practices within MNCs, social capital as a source of competitive advantage in MNCs	Tatiana Kostova is the Buck Mickel Chair and Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. Her areas of specialization include international management, macro-organizational behavior, and organization theory.
Daniel (Dan) Kwasnitschka Assistant Professor
Kristine Laca Lecturer		Kristine Laca is a Lecturer in the Department of International Business, Darla Moore School of Business.
Sang Min Lee Assistant Professor		Sang Min Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2023.
Dongmei Li Professor	Finance	Dongmei Li earned her Ph.D. in finance from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Dr. Li’s area of expertise is investment-based asset pricing, behavioral finance, financial constraints, R&D, innovation, and real options. She has published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Finance.
Oliver (Tim) Lutz Clinical Assistant Professor		Tim Lutz is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science, Darla Moore School of Business.
Mark A Maltarich Associate Professor	Team processes, Development and value of human capital, Entrepreneurship	Dr. Mark Maltarich joined the Darla Moore School of Business in 2013 as Assistant Professor of Management. He earned his Ph.D. in Business from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He also holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from DePaul University and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Northwestern University. Dr. Maltarich’s research interests include teams and team processes, the development and value of human capital, and entrepreneurship.
Jennifer (Jenn) L. Martinsen Clinical Assistant Professor		Jenn Martinsen is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Center for Business Communication, Darla Moore School of Business.
Shannon D. McCutchen Lecturer	Accounting	Shannon McCutchen is Internship Director and Academic Advisor in the Department of Integrated Information Technology at the University of South Carolina. She has taught courses in Computer Applications, Business Communications, and Accounting.
Lynn A Mcfarland Associate Professor	Staffing, Social influence in organizations, Workplace diversity	Dr. McFarland’s research is in the areas of staffing, social influence in organizations, and workplace diversity. She has published in several leading management journals and has presented over 50 papers at national conferences. She also currently serves on the Conference Committee of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and is the Research Coordinator for the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation.
Brandon Mendez Clinical Assistant Professor	art market and its function, orporate finance and investments.	Brandon Mendez is a clinical assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He teaches courses in corporate finance and investments. His professional experience includes time in financial services, internal auditing, controllership, and management consulting. He has previously served in the U.S. Navy as a naval flight officer. Brandon earned his Ph.D in finance from Florida State University.
Chun-Hui Miao Associate Professor	Industrial Organization, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Economics	Chun-Hui Miao is an Assistant Professor in the Darla Moore School of Business. His teaching and research interests include industrial organization, corporate finance and behavioral economics.
Lois Miller Assistant Professor
Carlos Molina Guerra (Molina) Research Assistant Professor
Aaron de Jesus (Aaron) Mora Melendez (Mora) Assistant Professor
Mark J Newsome Senior Lecturer	Advertising, Marketing	Mark Newsome brings over 20 years of professional branding and strategic marketing fieldwork to the classroom. Leveraging his extensive experience with various brands and industries, Mark seeks out innovative and diverse learning opportunities that involve real-world clients for the students of the Darla Moore School of Business, preparing them for a professional career in marketing.
Dr. Greg Niehaus Professor	Corporate finance, risk management, economics of insurance markets	Greg Niehaus is a professor of insurance and finance at the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business. His current research interests include corporate finance, the economics of insurance, corporate pension plans, and corporate risk management.
Dr. Igor Osobov Visiting Assistant Professor	Payout policy, Capital structure, Debt structure	Igor Osobov is a visiting assistant professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. His research focuses on corporate finance, especially on payout policy, capital structure and debt structure. Osobov has published in the Journal of Financial Economics and in the Journal of Corporate Finance. He previously taught at the University of Iowa, University of Connecticut, Georgia State University and Indiana University.
Christopher (Chris) Pardi Lecturer		Christopher Pardi is a Lecturer in the Deparment of Marketing, Darla Moore School of Business.
Professor Sungsik Park Assistant Professor	Principles of Marketing Research, Marketing Management	Sungsik Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Darla Moore School of Business.
Dr. Olga Perdikaki Associate Professor	Retail operations, Supply chain management, The interface between marketing and operations	Olga Perdikaki is an assistant professor of management science at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the Darla Moore School of Business, she was on the faculty of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.
Maureen O. Petkewich Clinical Associate Professor		Maureen Petkewich is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Management Science at the Moore School. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Research and M.S. in Statistics both from the University of South Carolina. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame. During her time at South Carolina, Petkewich has been highly involved in the creation and assessment of Carolina Core courses in analytical reasoning and problem solving.
Dr. Carrie Queenan Clinical Professor	Healthcare operations	Dr. Queenan’s primary research interest is in the area of healthcare operations, with a focus on how technology can enable more efficient and effective care. She has examined how technology affects hospitals across the country and how technology affects individual’s care and is open to new collaboration efforts to further understand the complex relationship of technology on care.
Dr. Jason Tyler Rasso Assistant Professor	Accounting	Jason Rasso holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida as well as a Master in Accountancy and two bachelor's degrees from the University of West Florida. Rasso gained over 15 years of teaching experience from such institutions as the College of Charleston, the University of South Florida, Georgia State University and Texas A&M University prior to joining the faculty of the University of South Carolina in 2016.
Ms. Beth Lynn Renninger Lecturer	Marketing	Beth Renninger is the Director for the Center for Sales Success Lecturer in Marketing for the Department of Marketing at the Darla Moore School of Business.
Kevin Sample Assistant Professor
Deniz Sanin Assistant Professor	explore the impact of government policies and laws on female employment and domestic violence	Deniz Sanin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in May 2022. Between 2021 and 2022, she was also a research fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests are development and labor economics with a focus on gender.
Madeline Scanlon Assistant Professor
Natalia M Scott Senior Lecturer	Accounting	Natalia Scott joined the University of South Carolina, Darla Moore School of Business as a lecturer in the fall of 2011. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of SC. Prior to joining the faculty in the School of Accounting, she served as an adjunct instructor at Midlands Technical College in addition to working as a CPA for over five years.
Laura S Self Senior Instructor		Laura Self is a lecturer in the School of Accounting and also serves as faculty adviser for Beta Alpha Psi, the accounting fraternity. Self received her B.A. in accounting from Wofford College and her Masters in Accountancy from the University of South Carolina. She is a certified public accountant and worked in public accounting as an auditor prior to joining the faculty at the university.
Luv Sharma Associate Professor	Knowledge management, Organizational learning issues, Analytics in influencing organizational competitiveness	Luv Sharma is an assistant professor of management science at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. He holds a doctoral degree and an MBA from The Ohio State University. Prior to returning to academia, Sharma worked on a number of process improvement projects with reputable firms like Cleveland Clinic, Motorola and Nationwide Insurance. He also serves as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Prateek Sharma Clinical Assistant Professor		Prateek Sharma holds a Ph.D. in finance from Louisiana State University. He also holds an MS in finance and an MS in statistics from the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Prior to joining academia he has worked in investment banking, private equity research, equity analysis and business advisory roles. His research interests include banking and regulation, financial institutions, and financial accounting and reporting.
Brian Silverstein Clinical Assistant Professor
Keith C. Skowronski Associate Professor	Outsourcing, Reshoring	Keith Skowronski is an assistant professor of management science at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He holds doctoral and bachelor’s degrees from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the University of Akron. Prior to returning to academia, Skowronski worked for more than 10 years in manufacturing with recent roles in engineering and quality management. During his industry experience, he was also an inventor on two patents.
Stephen P. Slice Senior Lecturer	Essentials of Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics	Steve Slice is a Lecturer in the Economics Department at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He worked 32 years with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the Farmers Home Administration/Farm Service Agency applying economic principles in lending money to farmers all across South Carolina.
Ellison Smith Clinical Assistant Professor		Ellison Smith holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Finance from Jacksonville University, a postgraduate certificate in Financial Planning and a Master of Accountancy from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. Previous to joining the Darla Moore School of Business he was a Lecturer of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Coastal Carolina University from 2010 to 2022.
Matthew Souther Associate Professor	corporate governance, boards of directors, and shareholder voting	Matt Souther is an associate professor of finance at the Darla Moore School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2014. He previously was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Missouri.
Dr. Brooke Winnfred Stanley Clinical Assistant Professor		Brooke Stanley holds a Ph.D. in finance from Texas A&M University, an MBA in finance from the University of Cincinnati, and a BA in drama from Kenyon College. Her professional experience includes working for several large corporations such as the Limited, Inc. and Mercantile Stores Co., and as a financial analyst for a privately held publishing company. Stanley’s research interests include corporate governance, managerial compensation, agency problems and financial institutions.
Dr. Chad Matthew Stefaniak Associate Professor	Accounting, Auditing	Stefaniak joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2016. His teaching interests and experience include both auditing and accounting information systems. His research focuses on examining the judgments and decisions made by auditors, specifically improving audit quality, auditor ethics and auditor-client negotiations. He has published research manuscripts in various journals.
Bryan R Stikeleather Associate Professor	Accounting	Bryan Stikleather enjoys teaching because he likes people and he enjoys the opportunity to inspire others to learn. However, his main accounting love is research. He considers himself to be a managerial accounting researcher who uses experiments and behavioral economics to provide insights on how to motivate and control employees.
Karoline Summerville Assistant Professor		Karoline Summerville is an assistant professor in the management department at the Darla Moore School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, her master’s degree from Wake Forest University and her bachelor’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Her research leverages innovative technological methods to understand the variety of factors and experiences related to diversity across multiple identity dimensions at once (e.g., race & ethnicity).
Dr. Hildy J Teegen Professor	International Business, Development, Negotiation	Hildy Teegen is Dean of the Darla Moore School of Business. Dr. Teegen has written extensively about global business, most recently about interactions between firms, governments, and nongovernmental organizations.
Virginia (Britt) Terry Clinical Associate Professor		Virginia "Britt" Terry is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Center for Business Communication, Darla Moore School of Business.
Danna Kang Thomas Assistant Professor	explore the economics of drug legalization and regulation	Danna Kang Thomas is an assistant professor of economics at the Moore School. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 2018. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the fields of industrial organization and public economics. In particular, her current research projects explore the economics of drug legalization and regulation. She teaches industrial organization and public economics.
Bethany D Tisdale Clinical Associate Professor		Bethany Dailey Tisdale currently teaches Professional Communication and has previously taught courses in the departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Tisdale also has years of experience as a writing consultant and served as Assistant Director of the University Writing Center. In addition to her work at U of SC, Dr. Tisdale takes her communication skills into the community as a Speakers Bureau volunteer for Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands.
Sergey D. Tsyplakov Associate Professor	using both empirical and theoretical approaches in analyzing firm's capital structure decisions, efficiency of corporate risk management, optimal financing of large investment projects	Sergey Tsyplakov is Associate Professor in Finance at the Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina. His research expertise is in corporate finance, risk management, fixed income, valuation and real estate.
Sriram Venkataraman Associate Professor	Healthcare operations, Service operations, New product development	Sriram Venkataraman's research focuses on healthcare operations, service operations and new product development. His classroom experience includes courses in Service Operations, Intermediate Business Statistics, Operations Management and Decision Models for Management.
Rohit Verma Dean		Verma joins the Moore School from VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he serves as the founding provost of Vietnam’s first private, not-for-profit university based on international standards. Verma is also a professor of operations, technology and information management at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business. Prior to his role at VinUniversity, he served as dean of external affairs at Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business.
Beth Vermeer Assistant Professor		Beth Vermeer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of School of Accounting, Darla Moore School of Business.
Joseph WESTBROOK Lecturer