The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business welcomed new full-time faculty members in the Department of Economics and the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship.
The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business welcomed four new full-time faculty members and three visiting faculty members in August 2022, bringing the school’s total number of full-time faculty to 68.
The new full-time faculty members are:
- Zahra Akbari, lecturer in economics
- B.A., Bu-Ali Sina University; M.A., Islamic Azad University; M.A., University of South Florida; Ph.D., University of South Florida
- Scholarly interests: Health economics, behavioral economics, drug abuse, racial/gender disparities, mental health, income inequality, labor economics
- Mustafa Akben, assistant professor in management
- B.A., Marmara University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Temple University
- Scholarly interests: Proactivity, creativity, social network analysis, biohacking, machine learning
- Lana Waschka, assistant professor of marketing
- B.S., Business Administration and Statistics, N.C. State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia
- Scholarly interests: Pro-social behavior, cognitive processing, digital marketing, consumer perception
- Cora Wigger, assistant professor of economics
- B.A., The College of Wooster; MPP, Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., Northwestern University
- Scholarly interests: Education policy, labor economics
Joining the Love School of Business as visiting faculty members are:
- Su Dong, visiting associate professor of management
- B.S., University of Shanghai for Science and Technology; Ph.D., UNC-Charlotte
- Joins us from Fayetteville State University
- Scholarly interests: Management information systems, operations management, database management systems, electronic health policy
- Jim Fatzinger, visiting associate professor of management
- B.B.A., University of Miami; MBA, University of Miami; Ed.D., Vanderbilt University; D.B.A. University of Florida
- Joins us from Eastern Kentucky University
- Scholarly interests: Resiliency in the wake of natural disasters, business education, teaching and learning best practices, higher education leadership
- Alessandro Perri, visiting assistant professor of management
- MBA, New York University; Master of Global Management, Thunderbird School of Management; M.Ed., Winthrop University; Ph.D., University of South Carolina
- Joins us from Winthrop University
- Scholarly interests: International sales, marketing, supply chain management, sourcing and trade of industrial commodities
