Doctoral Faculty
Our doctoral faculty are experts and thought leaders in their fields. They publish in top-tier academic journals and hold various editorial and leadership positions in their professional associations. We pride ourselves in providing our doctoral students with a one-on-one mentorship throughout their studies that sharpens their research skills and helps them succeed as future business scholars.
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Giorgio Gotti, Ph.D.
- Professor, Interim Dean
- (956) 665-3311
- giorgio.gotti@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: International accounting
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Arno Forst, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 882-5783
- arno.forst@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Financial accounting, international accounting, corporate governance
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Jiajia Fu, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-3753
- jiajia.fu@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Mispricing of Accounting Information, Financial Reporting Quality, Voluntary Disclosure, and Employee Social Media Disclosure
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Haiyan Zhou, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-2829
- haiyan.zhou@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Accounting information in capital markets; Accounting information in emerging markets; Auditing
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Akinloye Akindayomi, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-7842
- akinloye.akindayomi@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Financial Reporting, International Accounting, Taxation, and Executive Compensation.
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Christian Sobngwi, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Interim Director
- (956) 665-7936
- christian.sobngwi@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Financial accounting, voluntary disclosure, and fair value measurements.
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Sedat Erdogan, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-5105
- sedat.erdogan@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests:Corporate Financial Disclosures, Earnings/Revenue Attributes, Ethics
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Salvador Contreras, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-2827
- salvador.contreras@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Economic Development, Education, Financial Intermediation, Migration, and Race
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Diego Escobari, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-3366
- diego.escobari@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Pricing, empirical industrial organization
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Gautam Hazarika, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 882-8953
- gautam.hazarika@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education
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Maroula Khraiche, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3391
- maroula.khraiche@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: International economics
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Levent Kutlu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3108
- levent.kutlu@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Applied econometrics
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Armando Lopez-Velasco , Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-3359
- armando.lopezvelasco@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Immigration, macroeconomics, dynamic political economy, social security
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Xi Mao, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 882-8863
- xi.mao@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: International Trade
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Andre Mollick, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-7136
- andre.mollick@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: International Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.
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Jean-Baptiste Tondji, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-3907
- jeanbaptiste.tondji@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Economics of Organizations
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Elisa Taveras, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Economics
- ECOBE 216
- elisa.taveraspena@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Labor economics, household economics, applied microeconomics
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Ahmed Elanhas, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-2830
- ahmed.elnahas@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Empirical corporate finance
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Siamak Javadi, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 882-8858
- siamak.javadi@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Fixed income; corporate finance; financial markets & institutions; empirical asset pricing; corporate governance
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Incheol Kim, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-2669
- incheol.kim@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Empirical corporate finance
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Suin Lee, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-5802
- suin.lee@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Investment, Migration flows, Investor behavior
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Yu Liu, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 882-5802
- yu.liu@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Corporate finance, country institutions, national culture
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Nam H. Nguyen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-5317
- namhoang.nguyen@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Corporate Finance
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Monika Rabarison, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3338
- monika.rabarison@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions, Health Finance
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Ahasan Harun
- Assistant Professor
(956) 665-3336
ahasan.harun@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Machine learning, text mining, multivariate analysis, Bayesian SEM, econometrics, simulation, quality management, sustainable operations, supply chain analytics, health care management
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Bin Wang
- RCVCOBE Professor of Business
(956) 665-5087
bin.wang@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Social Media and Social Commerce, Crowdfunding, Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce, Information Technology Adoption, Performance of IT-Focused Firms
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Geng Sun
- Assistant Professor
- EMAGC 3.316
- geng.sun@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Economics of IS
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Hong Qin
- Associate Professor
EMAGC 3.318 - (956) 665-2035
- hong.qin@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Business research methodology
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Francis Andoh-Baidoo
- Professor
(956) 665-3397
francis.andohbaidoo@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Business intelligence/analytics
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Sunyoung Cho, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3360
- sunyoung.cho@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Adoption and diffusion of innovative information systems, health information systems, online transactions and communications
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Qinyu Liao, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 882-5825
- qinyu.liao@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Internet use, social media, technology adoption, electronic commerce
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Murad Moqbel, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3314
- murad.moqbel@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Social media, emerging technologies and Health IT, information security and privacy, and international business.
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Jun Sun, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-2850
- jun.sun@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Health informatics, green it, information systems
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Punit Ahluwalia, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
EMAGC 3.314 - (956) 665-2843
- punit.ahluwalia@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: “Quality of Service” of mobile transactions, modeling mobile transactions, multicast communications, wireless networks
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Xuan Wang, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-2019
- xuan.wang@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Big data analytics, causal inference, advanced methodology
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Nan Xiao, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-3352
- nan.xiao@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Services marketing; consumer adoption and use of technology-based products and services; tourism marketing; travel research; eye tracking methodology
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Hale Kaynak, Ph.D.
- Professor of Operations Management
(956) 665-3351
hale.kaynak@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Sustainability, circular economy, health care operations, supply chain management, quality management, lean operations, innovation, performance measurement, empirical research, and replication research.
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Jennifer Welbourne, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Management
(956) 665-3382
jennifer.welbourne@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Roles of personality, culture, and gender in the workplace, Workplace stress and coping
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Jorge Gonzalez, Ph.D.
- Professor and Chair of Management
(956) 665-2831
jorge.gonzalez@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Organizational behavior, diverstiy, and cross-cultural management
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Michael Abebe, Ph.D.
- Professor of Management
- (956) 665-5225
- michael.abebe@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Strategic management, Corporate governance, Strategic change/Turnarounds, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Entrepreneurship
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Wanrong Hou, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Management
- (956) 665-3387
- wanrong.hou@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Corporate governance, executive compensation
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Pingshu Li, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Management
- (956) 665-2569
- pingshu.li@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Strategic HRM and Human Capital, Employee compensation, Prosocial Motivation, and multilevel modeling
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Steve Lovett, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Management
- (956) 882-7382
- steve.lovett@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Strategic leadership, strategic management
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Sibin Wu, Ph.D.
- Professor of Management
- (956) 665-3359
- sibin.wu@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Crowdfunding, strategic decision making, and international entrepreneurship.
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Arturo Vasquez, Ph.D.
- Professor
(956) 665-5204
arturo.vasquez@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Strategic Marketing, Loyalty versus Satisfaction in Services, Relationship Marketing in Practice
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Chiquan Guo, Ph.D.
- Professor
(956) 665-7339
chiquan.guo@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Cross-cultural marketing
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Dan King, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
(956) 882-8618
dennisdanny.uy@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Consumer psychology, affect, cognition
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Deniz Atik, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
(956) 665-5007
deniz.atik@utrgv.edu - Research Interests: Consumer research
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Peter Magnusson, Ph.D.
- Professor, Chair
- (956) 665-3889
- peter.magnusson@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Global Marketing Strategy
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Sunaina Chugani, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- (956) 665-3359
- sunaina.chugani@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Consumer well-being, wisdom, gratitude, materialism, hedonic adaptation, satiation, social forces.
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Reto Felix, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 665-2579
- reto.felix@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Consumer well-being.
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Fuat Firat, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-2092
- fuat.firat@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Marketing theory, postmodern culture, symbolic culture
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Xiaojing Sheng, Ph.D.
- Professor
- (956) 665-3317
- xiaojing.sheng@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Services marketing; consumer adoption and use of technology-based products and services; tourism marketing; travel research; eye tracking methodology
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Mark Kroll, Ph.D
- Professor
- WRCIC 2.212
- (956) 665-4045
- mark.kroll@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Entrepreneurship and corporate governance
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Leon Schjoedt, Ph.D
- Assistant Professor
- ECOBE 134F
- leon.schjoedt@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial teams, entrepreneurial self-efficacy
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Jaime Ortiz, Ph.D
- Professor
- (956)-882-6597
- jaime.ortiz@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Global economies and markets.
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Edith Galy, Ph. D.
- Associate Professor
- (956) 882-7301
- edith.galy@utrgv.edu
- Research Interests: Sustainability, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation management.
