Faculty Expert Directory

URI College of Business faculty experts are available to speak with industry or the media regarding a variety of topics. Below, please find a list of our professors and their areas of expertise. If you are interested in interviewing a member of our faculty, please reach out to the URI media relations office to coordinate a time to speak.

Accounting

  • Judy Beckman - Professor, Accounting
    Areas of Expertise: Disclosures by publicly traded companies; Corporate financial reporting; International financial reporting issues; Securities and Exchange Commission requirements
  • Qi Liu Qi Liu - Assistant Professor, Accounting
    Areas of Expertise: Emerging Technologies in accounting, Data Analytics in auditing, Data Visualization, Accounting Education, Accounting Information Systems, Bibliometric Analysis
  • professor dave kale David Kale - Assistant Professor, Accounting
    Areas of Expertise: Corporate Governance, Capital markets, Financial Reporting, Business strategy
  • Anis Triki Anis Triki - Assistant Professor, Accounting
    Areas of Expertise: Behavioral Accounting Research

Finance
  • Bing-Xuan Lin Bingxuan Lin - Professor, Finance
    Areas of Expertise: Financial markets, Emerging Markets, Corporate Governance, Executive Compensation, Personal Finance

Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Nancy Forster-Holt Nancy-Forster Holt - Assistant Professor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
    Areas of Expertise: Startups (entrepreneurship) - funding, innovation, growth, hiring and talent development; Gender and small business; Growth and funding of existing small business (intra-preneurship); Crisis management in smaller companies; Retirement and exit, late or early stage

Management and Human Resources

  • Sean Rogers Sean Edmund Rogers - Dean and Alfred J. Verrecchia-Hasbro Inc. Leadership Chair
    Areas of Expertise: Human Resources and Managing People; Diversity/Inclusion; Employment Discrimination; Social Issues in Management
  • Jegoo Lee - Assistant Professor, Management
    Areas of Expertise: Corporate social responsibility (human & ecological sustainability), Business ethics, Social networks, Work-family (fatherhood), Corporate governance (employee ownership)
  • Seray Ergene - Assistant Professor, Management
    Area of Expertise: Sustainability Initiatives in Businesses
  • Emilija Djurdjevic Emilija Djurdjevic - Associate Professor, Management
    Areas of Expertise: Performance Management, Motivation, Social Status, Emotion Expression, Personality
  • Mallory Elise Flowers - Assistant Professor, Management
    Areas of Expertise: Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Sustainability, Policy & Business

Marketing
  • Lauren Labrecque Lauren I. Labrecque - Associate Professor, Marketing
    Areas of Expertise: Sensory Marketing and Design (focus on color), Aesthetics, Digital/Interactive Marketing, Social Media, Consumer Empowerment, Parasocial Relationships, Consumer Privacy, Data Breaches, and Branding
  • Christy Ashley - Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs & Professor
    Areas of Expertise: Social media, Retail Branding, Loyalty programs, Customer rage
  • kevin sample Kevin Sample - Assistant Professor, Marketing
    Areas of Expertise: Consumer Behavior, Design, Perception, Visual Design
  • Daniel Sheinin Dan Sheinin - Professor, Marketing
    Areas of Expertise: Brand strategy, such as brand meaning, brand naming, brand equity; Marketing communications strategy, such as advertising, digital, public relations; Social marketing strategy, such as companies taking political positions, establishing links with charities, building local associations with universities and area non-profits; Product strategy, such as new product management, product expansion, product diversification; Pricing strategy
  • Edward M. Mazze Edward M. Mazze - Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance
    Areas of Expertise: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Corporate Governance, Marketing, Management Consulting

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design

  • Ji Hye Kang - Associate Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
    Areas of Expertise: Fashion Business and Consumer, Digital Consumer Behavior, Global Markets, Sustainability
  • Susan L. Hannel Susan Hannel - Associate Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
    Areas of Expertise: Apparel Design, Apparel Manufacturing, 1920s and 1930s fashion, Garment Pattern Making, Home Sewing
  • Linda Welters Linda Welters - Professor, Fashion History
    Areas of Expertise: Fashion History, Greece, Sustainability in Textiles, Fashion, Textile history
  • Jessica Strubel Dr. Jessica Strübel - Assistant Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
    Areas of Expertise: Body image, psychological well-being, and social media (e.g., Tinder, Facebook); Body image psychological well-being, and appearance & performance enhancing drug usage in men; Subcultural identity and dress and appearance behaviors; Body image and psychological well-being in gender and sexual minority populations
  • Saheli Goswami Saheli Goswami - Assistant Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design
    Areas of Expertise: Corporate Behaviors and Responsibilities, Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy, Sustainability Issues, Clothing Industry, Business Ethics

Supply Chain Management
  • Doug Hales Douglas N. Hales - Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
    Areas of Expertise: Ports and Maritime Industry, Process Improvement Strategies, Digital Twinning
  • Dara Schniederjans Dara Schniederjans - Associate Professor Supply Chain Management, Associate Dean, Director of Professional MS in Supply Chain and Applied Analytics Program
    Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Digital Technologies, Knowledge Management, Ethics
  • Koray Özpolat Koray Ozpolat - Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management
    Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Disaster Relief, Humanitarian Logistics, Global Supply Chains and International Trade, Business Technologies - AI, Blockchain, Autonomous Trucks, Delivery by Drones etc...
  • Mehmet Yalcin Mehmet G. Yalcin - Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management
    Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Ambidexterity (Supply Chain Integration and Supply Chain Agility), Globally Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Concept of Ambidexterity and Paradox Theory.
  • Yuwen Chen - Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management & full-time M.B.A. Director
    Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Process Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, Data Visualization