Curricula Vitae in AK School of Business

Name	Personal Focus	Summary
Marouen Ben Jebara Associate Professor		Dr. Marouen Ben Jebara has a Ph.D. in Manufacturing and Technology Management – University of Toledo, 2015.
Yu Cao Assistant Professor
Kate Channell Instructor
Mr. John Engel Senior Instructor	Business	John Engel, MBA is a Senior Instructor and Director of Career Readiness in the Department of School of Business Administration, University of SC Aiken.
Charles Harris Instructor
Paul Lincoln Hudson Assistant Professor		Link Hudson, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of School of Business Administration, University of SC Aiken.
Dr. Jose-Luis Castro Iglesias Assistant Professor	U.S. and Latin American CEOs and entrepreneurs	Dr. Iglesias has extensive academic and corporate experience. His academic background consists of a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, a second bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Kennesaw State University, an MBA degree from Mackenzie University, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and credits in the master’s degree program in Organizational Behavior at New York University before earning his doctoral degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida.
Nancy Jelagat Kangogo Assistant Professor		Nancy Kangogo, CPA is an Instructor in the Department of School of Business Administration, University of SC Aiken.
Alhashmi Lasyoud Associate Professor
Robert T. Leach Professor	corporate financial distress, corporate restructuring and control, valuation	Dr. Leach earned his B.S. in accounting at Shippensburg State College and M.B.A at Drexel University. He has professional experience in private accounting and has published in leading academic journals, and has made presentations at national conferences. His research interests are in corporate financial distress, corporate restructuring and control, and valuation.
Canchu Lin Assistant Professor
Dr. Ravi Narayanaswamy Professor	Management Information Systems	Dr. Narayanaswamy's research interests focus on issues pertaining to organization control, team leadership, managerial influence behavior, and governance in information systems development. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in leading academic outlets including the Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information System, among others, as well as national and international conference proceedings.
Paul D. Newsom Professor	Finance, Pharmacy	His current teaching and research interests include economics, business finance, capital budgeting financial markets, money and banking, corporate finance, agency theory, corporate , and finance education.
Sanela Porca Professor	State tax revenue competition, The portfolio approach to state taxation	Dr. Porca has a variety of research interests in economics and international business. Her main interest is regional growth and development and the effects the tax structure has on the local industrial structure.
Linda Rodriguez Professor	International Business	Dr. Linda C. Rodriguez earned her Ph.D. in Management and International Business from the University of Texas-Pan American. She teaches Management and Business and Society courses.
Julie Carleton Steen Assistant Professor		Dr. Julie Steen has over twenty years of experience teaching business, management, and marketing at the college level. She is the 2016 recipient of the Part Time Teaching Excellence Award at USC Aiken. Dr. Steen has an entrepreneurial spirit and has started several businesses including an eBay drop-off store, and Express Yourself, a pop-up shop boutique. She has also been self-employed as a real estate agent and involved in several direct selling companies.
Terry Whittington Assistant Professor		Terry Whittington is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business Administration, USC Aiken.
Frank Tian Xie Professor	statistics	Dr. Frank Xie earned his PhD in Marketing from Georgia State University. He teaches Marketing and Business Statistics courses.