Faculty Directory
Here, world-ready students learn from world-renowned teacher-scholars.
They’ve earned national and international reputations as business leaders, experts and consultants. They’re authors and scholars. The professors in the classrooms at the Robins School could be in the corner offices of global corporations. But they believe the role of teacher is much more important.
Instructor of Finance
Specialties:
- Equity Analysis and Valuation
- Financial Modeling
(804) 287-6497
Lecturer of Economics
Specialties:
- Business Ethics
- Ethics and Economics
(804) 289-1761
Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Corporate Finance
- Derivative Securities
- Econometrics
- Finance Pedagogy
- Initial Public Offerings
- Practitioner Issues
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Small Business Management
(804) 287-6399
Associate Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Start-ups
- Technology Commercialization
- Environmental Sustainability
- Corporate Social Responsibility
(804) 289-8596
Associate Professor of Management
Director of Robins Sustainability Initiative
Specialties:
- Work Passion
- Person-Environment Fit
- Cross-Cultural Research
- Economic Inequality
(804) 662-3143
Associate Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Fraudulent Financial Reporting
- Auditor Judgement & Decision-Making
(804) 287-6645
Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Accounting Information Systems
- Budgets and Fiscal Responsibility
- Accounting and Business Education
- Cybersecurity
(804) 289-8551
Instructor in Marketing
Specialties:
- Advertising, Digital Marketing, Branding
- Publishing, Sales Management
(804) 662-3164
Assistant Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Supply Chain Management
- Network Economics of Supply Chains
- Perishable Food Supply Chain Management
(804) 289-1798
Associate Dean for International Business Programs
Professor of Management
The David Meade White Jr. Chair in Business
Specialties:
- Business & Corporate Strategy
- Stakeholder Strategy
- Innovation Management Strategy Consulting
- Value Creation in Interfirm Relationships
(804) 287-1922
Department Chair, Marketing
Associate Professor of Marketing
Specialties:
- Salesforce Management
- Advertising Effects
- Marketing Strategy
(804) 287-1852
Associate Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Supply Chain Management
- Revenue Management
- Algorithms
(804) 289-8955
Instructor of Business Communications
Specialties:
- Business Communication
- Professional Writing
- Presentation Skills
- Public Speaking
- Document Design
(804) 289-8259
Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- International Finance
- Investments
(804) 287-1921
Associate Professor of Management
Paul Clikeman Teaching Fellow
Specialties:
- Business Ethics
- Negotiations
- Managerial Decision Making
- Hotel Industry
- Management Education
(804) 289-8556
Associate Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL)
Specialties:
- Economic History of Weather Information
- Flipped Classroom
- Traffic Citations
(804) 287-6573
Department Chair, Economics
Rigsby Fellow in Economics
Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Monetary Policy
- Macroeconomics
- Real-Time Data Analysis
(804) 287-1961
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Economic Growth
- Macroeconomics
(804) 289-1765
Lecturer of Economics
Contact:
Associate Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Global Strategy
- International Business Environment
- Emerging Markets
- Family Business
- Latin America Businesses
- Applied Meta-Analysis
Professor of Finance
Patricia A. and George W. Wellde Jr. Distinguished Chair in Finance
Specialties:
- Climate Finance
- Disaster Risk
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Accounting
(804) 287-1269
Department Chair, Finance
Associate Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Alternative Assets
- Portfolio and Investment
- Corporate Finance
(804) 289-8589
Department Chair, Analytics & Operations
Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Supply Chain Management
- Design for Manufacturability
- Business Process Improvement
- Retail Operations
(804) 287-1867
Assistant Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Corporate Governance
- Financial Advisors
(804) 289-8565
Jordyn Farizo
She/Her
Visiting Instructor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Taxation
(804) 287-6068
Instructor of Entrepreneurship
Specialties:
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
(804) 335-7198
Visiting Lecturer
Specialties:
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- International Economics
- Poverty and Inequality
(804) 287-1237
The CSX Chair in Management and Accounting
Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Accounting
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities and Exchange Commission
(804) 287-1923
Neeraja Gupta
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Gender Economics
- Labor Economics
President and Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Labor Economics
- Compensation Design
- Executive Compensation
- Gender Pay Gap
- Labor Market Discrimination
- Disability in Labor Markets
(804) 289-8100
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Environmental Economics
- Non-Market Valuation
(804) 287-1815
Assistant Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Work-Nonwork Interface
- Leisure Crafting
- Stress & Well-being
- Psychological Resources
Associate Professor of Marketing
Director of Spider Business Hub
Specialties:
- Customer-to-Customer Interactions
- Innovations in Service Technology
- Retail Promotions
- Corporate Perceptions & Sustainability
(804) 289-1776
W. David Robbins Chair of Strategic Management
Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Strategic Management
- Stakeholder Theory
- Business Ethics
(804) 287-1920
Visiting Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Teaching: Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Economic History
- Research: Economic History, Economics of Institutions
(804) 287-6355
Department Chair, Management
The E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Business
Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Work Passion
- Employment and Interpersonal Relationships
- Social Networks
(804) 289-8567
Associate Professor of Accounting
Accounting Teaching Fellow
Specialties:
- Accounting
(804) 289-8594
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Urban Economics
- Public Finance
(804) 287-1801
Monika Kukar-Kinney
She/Her
The F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business
Professor of Marketing
Specialties:
- Retailing and Pricing
- Impact of Internet on Consumer Behavior
- Compulsive Consumer Behavior
- Market Research and Analysis
(804) 287-1880
Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Archival Capital Markets
- Institutional Investors Trading
- Corporate Disclosures
- Auditing
- Insider Trading
- Trading Volume
- Behavioral Finance
- International Taxation
- Investment
(804) 289-1762
Assistant Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Data Analytics
- Quantitative Methods
- Machine Learning
- Health Informatics
(804) 662-3166
Professor of Marketing
Specialties:
- Marketing Research
- International Marketing
(804) 289-8586
Associate Professor of Economics
Robins Teaching Fellow
Specialties:
- International Trade
- Applied Microeconomics
- Industrial Organization
(804) 287-6520
Assistant Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Corporate Finance
- Executive Compensation
- State Ownership
- Venture Capital
(804) 289-8623
Assistant Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Information Technology
- Data Analytics
(804) 287-6385
Professor of Economics
Joseph A. Jennings Chair in Business
Specialties:
- Industrial Organization
- Game Theory
- Experimental Economics
(804) 287-6631
Associate Professor of Marketing
Specialties:
- Branding
- Brand Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing Strategy
- Sports & Entertainment Marketing
(804) 289-8960
Associate Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Director Incentives
- Executive Compensation
(804) 287-1851
Associate Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Electronic Networks of Practice
- Feedback Systems
- Social Media
- Behavioral Information Security
- Quantitative Data Analysis
(804) 287-6895
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
Professor of Economics
The E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Business
Specialties:
- Economic Education
- Pedagogy
(804) 289-8575
Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Fiscal Policy
- Business Cycles
(804) 289-8574
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Macroeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Immigration
Lecturer of Marketing
Specialties:
- Customer Centricity
- Innovation
- Market Segmentation
- Marketing Strategy
- Sales Effectiveness
(804) 662-3043
Assistant Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Identity
- Stigma
- Disability
- Diversity
- Social Entrepreneurship
(804) 287-1821
Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Applied microeconomics
- Economics of Education
(804) 287-1959
Assistant Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Strategy
- International Business
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Cross-border collaboration
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- African Investment
(804) 289-8560
Associate Professor of Finance
Director: Center for Active Business Education (CABE)
Specialties:
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Investment
- Financial Management
- Financial Modeling
- Investments
- Management Turnover
- Mergers and Acquisitions
(804) 287-1938
Associate Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Managerial/Cost Accounting
- Financial Accounting
- International Accounting
- ESG Reporting
(804) 289-8573
Robert Pawlewicz
He/Him
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Audit Quality
- Auditor Fees
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
(804) 289-8707
Dean
Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Individual and Organizational Development
- Strategic Management of Human Capital
- Leadership and Organizational Change
(804) 289-8549
Professor of Marketing
Specialties:
- Branding
- Brand Equity Theory and Measurement
- Brand Authenticity
- Marketing Strategy
- Gratitude in Marketing
(804) 289-8593
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Environmental Economics
- Compliance and Enforcement
- Environmental Regulations
(804) 289-8673
Professor of Finance
The Patricia A. and George W. Wellde, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Finance
Contact: (804) 287-6589
Lecturer of Economics
Specialties:
- Data Science, Analytics, & Visualization
- Bayesian Statistical Analysis
- Legislative Redistricting Methods
- Forecasting
- Operations Management
(804) 338-7182
Melissa Spencer
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Gender Economics
- Health Economics
- Crime Economics
Associate Professor of Management
Specialties:
- Strategic Management
- Nonmarket Strategy
- Environmental Sustainability
(804) 287-6471
Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- International Finance
- Investments
- Momentum and Contrarian Strategies
- Calendar Anomalies
- Volatility Prediction
(804) 289-8251
Professor of Analytics & Operations
Director of Assessment and Accreditation
Specialties:
- Risk Management, Uncertainty Analysis
- Operations Research
(804) 289-1763
Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Information Technology
- Healthcare
- Data Analytics
(804) 287-6643
Assistant Professor of Finance
Specialties:
- Municipal Bond Market
- Climate Finance
- Behavioral Finance
(804) 289-8559
Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs
Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Financial Accounting
- International Accounting
- Corporate Social Responsibility
(804) 287-6811
Department Chair, Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting
Contact: (804) 287-1832
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Labor Economics
(804) 662-3165
Associate Professor of Accounting
Specialties:
- Accounting (accounting education, financial, tax, managerial, AIS, and cost)
(804) 289-8577
Professor of Analytics & Operations
Specialties:
- Information Technology
- Operations Management
(804) 287-6524
Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- Ethics and Economics
- Economic Development
(804) 289-8570
Visiting Lecturer
Specialties:
- Macroeconomics
- Behavioral Economics
- Health
Associate Professor of Economics
Specialties:
- International Trade
- International Economics
- Quantitative Methods