The W. A. Franke College of Business
Fall 2022 – New Faculty
First Name | Last Name | Title/Rank | Dept/Unit | |
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Brian | Fitzgerald | Assistant Professor | Accounting | |
Brian Fitzgerald joined the faculty at the W.A. Franke College of Business in the Fall of 2022. He previously taught for eight years at Northeastern University. Professor Fitzgerald teaches introductory and intermediate financial accounting. He studies auditor judgment & decision making, and how client relationship factors influence audit quality, and has published in top accounting journals including Contemporary Accounting Research and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. Brian has also served as an ad hoc reviewer for The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, and Accounting Horizons. He previously worked for seven years as an auditor for Ernst & Young LLP in Richmond, VA and St. Louis, MO. As a manager, he was the firm’s Sector Resident for the North American Mining & Metals practice. Brian has a Doctor of Philosophy from Texas A&M University, and Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees from the College of William and Mary. He grew up in St. Louis and is a Certified Public Accountant in Missouri (inactive). | ||||
Landi | Morris | Assistant Professor | Accounting | |
Landi Morris received her Ph.D. from Bentley University in May, 2022. She teaches taxation of individuals and business entities in the College of Business, with an emphasis on tax planning and equity in the Internal Revenue Code. Landi’s research focuses on equity in accounting and academia and the role of mental and physical health in accounting quality. | ||||
Jaesang | Sung | Assistant Professor | Economics | |
I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the W. A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University (NAU). I got my Economics PhD from Georgia State University. Prior to joining NAU, I worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellow. My primary areas of research are Health Economics and Applied Econometrics. My research has been published in journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Southern Economic Journal, and Health Economics. |
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Mohammad | Rahman | Assistant Teaching Professor | Economics | |
Ann | Werboff | Lecturer | Economics | |
Siyu | Pan | Assistant Professor | Economics | |
Steve | Syrmopoulos | Assistant Professor of Practice | Finance | |
Dr. Syrmopoulos has been working in the finance and financial planning arenas for over 40 years; corporate finance, international finance, and personal financial planning. He has been teaching money at the university level in both graduate and undergraduate programs for 30 years. One of the things he is fond of saying is that the more he teaches, the more he learns. His consultancy practice is ongoing and consists of a small number of advisees, individuals and small businesses, to whom he provides investment and retirement program suggestions and ideas primarily in the context of his position as an educator. The research which Dr. Syrmopoulos conducts is primarily in the area of Financial Literacy, studied through the prism of Behavioral Finance or as he prefers to put it, why people make the decisions they make about money. This ongoing research work has examined the efficacy of private Financial Literacy Programs, the lack of retirement plans in small businesses, and the commercial bank takeovers of the investment banking firms during the 2008 financial crisis. Syrmopoulos has been at Northern Arizona University since 2018, and very much enjoys working with both traditional and nontraditional students who are about to embark or reembark on lifelong and productive careers in Finance and Financial Planning, as these are the minds that will shape the world in which we live tomorrow. Dr. Syrmopoulos feels very strongly when he states that education is his passion and teaching is his privilege. |
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Brandon | Jones | Lecturer | Information Systems | |
Bo | Wen | Assistant Professor | Information Systems | |
Bo Wen is an assistant professor in the W.A. Franke College of Business (FCB) at Northern Arizona University. He joined FCB since Fall 2022. He received his PhD from David Eccles School of Business at University of Utah in Summer 2022. His current research interest is mainly focused on how gamification and peer gifting motivate user-generated contents in online communities. He is also interested in research topics related to current issues of technology uses, such as online learning, technology adoption, and cybersecurity. He is familiar with a variety of empirical research methods, including survey, experiment, econometrics, and machine learning. His work has appeared in the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems and Journal of Education for Business, among others. In his free time, he enjoys hiking and traveling to national parks. | ||||
Jonathan | Gilbert | Assistant Professor | Marketing | |