John Burrow 

Senior Lecturer

Year Joined the College of Business
2017

Expertise
Project Management, Risk Management, Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Courses Taught
Principles of Management, Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Risk Management for Project Managers

Degree(s)
Doctorate of Management (DM) University of Maryland.

Honors/Awards
University of Mary Washington Graduate Faculty Award 2020

Wei Chen

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2009

Expertise
Strategy, International Business, Entrepreneurship

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Environment of International Business, Entrepreneurship Practicum, Entrepreneurial Venture Creation

Degree(s)
Ph.D. Texas Tech University

Select Recent Publications
Guo, X., Chen, W. & Iurchenko, D. (2022). Impact of College Education on Incorporated and Unincorporated Self-Employment: Variations among African Americans and Hispanics. New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 25(1), 70-90.

Chen, W. & Kinsley, K. (2019). Dominant and Latent Logics: Pattern of Joint Venture Adoption in the Automobile Industry in China. The International Journal of Management, 8(1), 9-22.

Honors/Awards
Highly Commended Paper Award, Journal of Management History
Best Paper Award,  Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Kanchan Deosthali

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Organizational behavior, Employee training and development activities, Citizenship behaviors, Employee attitudes and motivation

Courses Taught
Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development & Change Human Resources Management & Development

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Organizational Studies, University at Albany

Select Recent Publications
Deosthali, K. & Johnson, R. (2022). Empirical Examination of Voluntary Development Activities of Employees,” IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 11(1), 75-91.

Potnis, D., Gala, B., & Deosthali, K. (2020). Investigating “Message Forwarding Behavior” of Mobile Phone Users: Exploring the Link Between Message Content, User Sentiment, and User Intention to Forward Messages on Social Media-based Instant Messaging Behaviors, First Monday, 25(8).

Alexandra Dunn

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2017

Expertise
Perceived organizational support; Recruitment, onboarding, and socialization of newcomers; management pedagogy

Courses Taught
Principles of Management, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Management and Films, Life & Career After UMW

Degree(s)
Ph.D., UNC Charlotte

Select Recent Publications
Williams, C., Thomas, J., Bennett, A. A., Banks, G., Toth, A., Dunn, A.M., McBride, A., & Gooty, J. The role of discrete emotions in job satisfaction: A meta-analysis. Journal of Organizational Behavior. In press.

Dunn, A. M & Fallah, S. (2023). The Future Is Scary!: A Job Search Scenario Planning Exercise to Encourage Student Resilience Capacity and Reduce Stress. Journal of Management Education. In press.

Toth, A., Dunn, A.M., Shanock, L., Kavanagh, K., Sergent, A., & Leonard, S. (2022). You being new can be hard on me too: Considering the veteran employee’s perspective on newcomer socialization. Human Performance, 35(3-4), 261-277. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959285.2022.2111432

Honors/Awards
Society for HR Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP)

Samira Fallah

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2020

Expertise
CEO succession, Strategic leadership, Strategic decisions, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Courses Taught
Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership, Leadership Strategy & Policy

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Select Recent Publications
Dunn, A. M., & Fallah, S. (2023). The Future Is Scary!: A Job Search Scenario Planning Exercise to Encourage Student Resilience Capacity and Reduce Stress. Journal of Management Education (Part of the Forthcoming Special Issue “Teaching About Contemporary Careers.”)

Honors/Awards
VIVA Open Adopt Grant, Academic Library Consortium of Virginia, 2024-2025
▪Jepson Fellowship, University of Mary Washington, 2024-2025
▪Early Educator Institute Scholarship, Management and OB Teaching Society, 2022
▪Paul R. Lawrence Fellowship, Case Research Foundation, 2020

Christopher Garcia

Associate Dean and Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2011

Expertise
Machine Learning & AI, Operations Research, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and Transportation

Courses Taught
Analytics I: Predictive Models, Applied Machine Learning; Quantitative Business Modeling

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Old Dominion University

Select Recent Publications
Garcia, C., Rabadi, G., Abujaber, D., and Seck, M. (In Press), “Supporting humanitarian crisis decision making with reliable intelligence derived from social media using AI”, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

Garcia, C. (2023), “The synchronized multi-assignment orienteering problem”, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 1790-1812.

Honors/Awards
Sabbatical, Fall 2022

Lance Gentry

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Marketing, Market surveys, Ecotourism, Market strategy

Courses Taught
Principles of Marketing, Ecotourism, Market Strategy, Practicum in Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy & Applied Supply Chain Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Michigan State University

Rachel L. Graefe-Anderson

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2012

Expertise
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Literacy, Financial Management, Financial Analysis, CEO Compensation.

Courses Taught
Principles of Finance, Financial Management, Financial Modeling, Advanced Corporate Finance, Investments, Student-Managed Investment Fund Class, Financial Crises.

Degree(s)
Ph.D. Purdue University

David Lockhart Henderson III

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2012

Expertise
Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Analytics, Managerial Accounting

Courses Taught
Principles of Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting for Decision Making and Control, Business of UK Soccer

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Select Recent Publications
Henderson, D. and Marsh, J. (2022), Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Summer activities for Anna!.
Southeastern Case Research Journal, 19(1), 27-31.

Kimberley Kinsley

Senior Lecturer

Year Joined the College of Business
2007

Expertise
Law

Courses Taught
Business Law, Commercial Law, Cybersecurity Law

Degree(s)
J.D., University of Detroit College of Law, Detroit, MI

Select Recent Publications
Kinsley, Kimberley, 2023. Environmental, Social and Governance Investments: Regulating Greenwashing, Journal of Business Law and Ethics, ISSN 2372-4862 (Print) 2372-4870 (Online)) DOI: 10.15640/jble, Vol. 15, 1-25. (September 2023).  

Kinsley, Kimberley, June 2021. “Civil Law Access” In Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, edited by Kimberley Kinsley and Robert S. Rycroft. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pages 193 – 199. 

Kinsley, Kimberley and Robert Rycroft, June 2021. “Wealth Inequality”, In Inequality in America: Causes and Consequences, edited by Kimberley Kinsley and Robert S. Rycroft. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pages 57 – 66.

Ken Machande

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2000

Expertise
Accounting

Courses Taught
Principles of Accounting, Cost/Managerial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Governmental and Not-for-profit Accounting

Degree(s)
MBA, Albany State University

Honors/Awards
CPA, CMA, CFM

Kashef Majid

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Marketing

Courses Taught|
Marketing Research, Digital Marketing, Principles of Marketing, Marketing for Social Good, Marketing Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., George Washington University

Select Recent Publications
Dogru, T., Majid, K., Laroche, M., Mody, M., & Suess, C. (2021). Communicating quality while evoking loss–How consumers assess extra charges in the Airbnb marketplace. Tourism Management, 87, 104376.

Majid, K. A., Kolar, D. W., & Laroche, M. (2021). Support for small businesses during a health crisis. Journal of Services Marketing, 35(5),
671-683.

Majid, K. A. (2020). Effect of interactive marketing channels on service customer acquisition. Journal of Services Marketing, 35(3), 299-311.

Honors/Awards
Mary Pinschmidt Award, by the graduating class of 2021

John Marsh

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2013

Expertise
Finance, Strategy

Courses Taught
Personal Finance, Principles of Finance, Financial Management

Degree(s)
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Select Recent Publications
Henderson, D. & Marsh, J.  2022.  Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Summer Activities for Anna!  Southeast CASE Research Journal, 19(1), 27-31.

Lewis, B., Gower, K., & Marsh, J.  2022.  Lily Farms Nurseries: A Company Culture Change to Survive.  Southeast CASE Research Journal, forthcoming.

Richardson, W., Marsh, J., & Machande, K.  2021.  Retirement Planning: It’s All About the Assumptions.  Case Research Journal, 41(3).

Smitha Jain Oxford

Senior Lecturer

Year Joined the College of Business
2003

Expertise
Communication, Negotiation

Courses Taught
Business Communication, Negotiation

Degree(s)
MBA, Columbia University

Honors/Awards
Mary Pinschmidt Award

Sayan Sarkar

Associate Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2016

Expertise
Financial Accounting

Courses Taught
Principles of Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Foundations in Financial Markets

Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Texas, El Paso

Select Recent Publications
Wood, D. A., M. Achhpilia, M. T., Adams, [et al. including Sarkar, S.]. (2023). The ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot: How well does it answer accounting assessment questions? Issues in Accounting Education.

ANikbakht, E., Sarkar, S., Smith, G. C., & Spieler, A. C. (2021).

Pre-IPO earnings management: Evidence from India. Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.

Benedetti, H., Nikbakht, E., Sarkar, S., and Spieler, A. C. (2021).

Blockchain and CorporateFraud. Journal of Financial Crime

Mukesh Srivastava

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2004

Expertise
Innovation Diffusion of Information Technologies, Cybersecurity security and IT governance, AI and Community Development

Courses Taught
Managing and Leading Sustainable Business, Workforce      Enterprise Resource Planning, Knowledge Management of Information Systems, Business Information Systems

Degree(s)
Doctor of Business Administration, University of Surrey, England, United Kingdom; Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Select Recent Publications
Srivastava, M. Carter, H. and Tomiuk, D. (2022-23) Landscape of Innovation and Data Analytics in Sports Management: A Qualitative Study of The National Basketball Association (NBA), IBIMA Review Journal (Accepted)

Honors/Awards
Keynote Address (2021 and 2022) COVID-19 pandemic and its medical, social, and economic impacts at International Conference on Innovation Management, Education, and Technology (ICIMET 2022), Bangkok, Thailand, July 30, 2022.

Keynote addresses on Digital Transformation at the International Conference on Innovation, Management, Economics, and Innovation (ICIMESS 2021) Bangkok, Thailand, March 27-28.

Filiz Tabak

Dean and Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2023

Expertise
Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Employee work engagement, Entrepreneurial passion

Degree(s)
Ph.D. Oklahoma State University

Select Recent Publications
Tabak, F., Shkoler, O., Lebrón, M., and Rabenu, E.  2023. Team-Member and Leader-Member Exchange, Engagement, and Turnover Intentions: Implications for Human Resource Development.  Human Resource Development International, 1-26.

Sanford, D., & Tabak, F.  2023.  Personality and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Management Education. Organization Management Journal, 20, 3, 107-119.

Qian, S. Brannon, D., & Tabak, F.  2022. Exploring Mechanisms in Entrepreneurial Passion-Entrepreneurial Behavior Relationship: Mediating Role of Growth-Oriented Intentions. Journal of Career Development, 49, 4, 922-933.

Tsung-Hsuan “Joey” Yang

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2023

Expertise
Accounting

Courses Taught
Principles of Accounting, Federal Taxation of Individuals

Degree(s)
Ph. D., University of Texas at Arlington

Kelly Eunjung Yoon

Assistant Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2019

Expertise
Digital and Social Media Marketing

Courses Taught
Principles of Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Research, Digital Marketing, International Marketing

Degree(s)
Ph. D., University of California- Irvine

Select Recent Publications
Pechmann, C., Yoon, K. E., Trapido, D., & Prochaska, J. J. (2021). Perceived costs versus actual benefits of demographic self‐disclosure in online support groups. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 31(3), 450-477.

Honors/Awards
Waple Professorship, University of Mary Washington, 2021

Best Paper by an Early Career Contributor Award, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2021

Xiaofeng Zhao

Professor

Year Joined the College of Business
2007

Expertise
Queuing theory, Supply chain management

Courses Taught
Analytics—Optimization Models, Quantitative Business Modeling

Degree(s)
Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Select Recent Publications

Zhao, Xiaofeng, and Jianrong Hou. “Applying the theory of constraints principles to tourism supply
chain management.” Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 46.2 (2022): 400-411

Hou, Jianrong, and Xiaofeng Zhao. “Using a priority queuing approach to improve emergency
department performance.” Journal of Management Analytics 7.1 (2020): 28-43

Hou, Jianrong, and Xiaofeng Zhao. “Toward a supply chain risk identification and filtering framework
using systems theory.” Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 33.6 (2021): 1482-1497.