Faculty & Staff

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Faculty

Name
Position

  • photo of lucy ackert

    Professor of Finance

    lackert@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6111
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 422

    website

  • Harun Avci

    Assistant Professor of Quantitative Analysis

    havci@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3913
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 344

    website

  • Aniruddha Bagchi

    Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis and Professor of Economics

    abagchi@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6720
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 321

    website

  • photo of James Bourdeau

    Associate Professor of Economics

    jboudre5@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3413
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 410

  • photo of john bradbury

    Professor of Economics

    jbradbu2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2369
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 432

    website

  • photo of david bray

    Professor of Finance

    dbray1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6429
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 319

    website

  • Lecturer of Finance

    sbrincks@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7211
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 359

  • photo of billie ann brotman

    Professor of Finance

    bbrotman@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6496
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 325

    website

  • Part Time Faculty - Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis

    fburton1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091

  • photo of dimitri dodonova

    Principal Lecturer of Economics

    dcc6185@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3390
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 358

    website

  • photo of weiwei chen

    Associate Professor of Economics

    wchen30@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3136
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 360

    website

  • Part-time Assistant Professor of Economics

    ncoope25@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • Charlie Dale

    Lecturer of Economics

    sdale12@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6092
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 439

    website

  • Part-time Instructor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    ndebroy@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • photo of murat doral

    Principal Lecturer of Economics

    mdoral@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2656
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 358

    website

  • Part-time Assistant Professor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    zdorobia@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • photo of thomas garr

    Lecturer of Economics

    tgarr@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6279
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • photo of randall goodwin

    Part-time Professor of Economics

    rgoodwin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

    website

  • Govind Hariharan

    Professor of Economics

    gharihar@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6580
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 407

    website

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics

    fhasin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • photo of xiao huang

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    xhuang3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6318
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 343

    website

  • photo of rongbing huang

    Professor of Finance

    rhuang1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2081
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 418

    website

  • Part-Time Instructor of Finance

    dkahn3@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • Part-time Instructor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    dkataky@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091

  • photo of brett katzman

    Professor of Economics

    bkatzman@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6365
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 318

    website

  • photo of alison keefe

    Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Economics

    akeefe@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4469
    Off Campus, 3333 KSU Center, Room 436D

    website

  • photo of zeynep kelani

    Principal Lecturer of Economics

    zkelani@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7434
    Marietta Campus, 846 Crawford Lab, Room 112

    website

  • photo of amine khayati

    Clinical Associate Professor of Finance

    akhayati@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7430
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 423

    website

  • Assistant Professor of Quantitative Analysis

    jkim311@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4301
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 362

  • photo of ladd kochman

    Professor of Finance

    lkochman@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6428
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 349

    website

  • Assistant Professor of Finance

    jlee589@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7793

  • Matt Lee

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics

    mlee236@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6483
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 401

    website

  • photo of xuepeng liu

    Professor of Economics

    xliu6@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6605
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 428

    website

  • photo of leo macdonald

    Professor of Economics

    lmacdon4@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6579
    Off Campus, 3333 KSU Center, Room 414

    website

  • Professor of Conflict Management and Economics

    mmarktan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7750
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 408

  • photo of timothy mathews

    Director of the Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity and Professor of Economics

    tmathew7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2072
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 412

    website

  • photo of stefano mazzotta

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    smazzott@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6341
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 350

    website

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics

    pmcgaffi@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 322

  • photo of mikhail melnik

    Professor of Economics

    mmelnik@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3808
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 347

    website

  • Part-Time Instructor of Economics

    tmetcal2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • Tom Miller

    Professor of Finance

    tmiller@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6494
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 348

    website

  • Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics

    amoraki2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

  • Limited Term Assistant Professor of Economics

    kmorale5@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7043
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 496

  • Part-time Instructor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    jmorr364@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091

  • photo of huan ni

    Associate Professor of Economics

    hni@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3343
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 446

    website

  • photo of luc noiset

    Professor of Economics

    lnoiset@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4371
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 317

    website

  • photo of filippo occhino

    Assistant Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis and Associate Professor of Economics

    focchino@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6319
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 409

    website

  • Aysu Ozel

    Assistant Professor of Quantitative Analysis

    aozelavc@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7824
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 355

    website

  • photo of michael patrono

    Senior Lecturer of Economics & Finance

    mpatrono@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6578
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 437A

    website

  • photo of jomon paul

    Associate Dean of Research and Accreditation and Professor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    jpaul17@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6086
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 262

    website

  • Associate Professor of Economics

    gphelan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3120
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 404

    website

  • photo of gabriel ramirez

    Professor of Finance

    gramirez@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6181
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 424

    website

  • Serena Rhee

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    srhee1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-7792

    website

  • Senior Lecturer of Economics & Finance

    ypost@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2659
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 411

  • Borhan Sayedy

    Lecturer of Economics

    bsayedy@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 346

    website

  • photo of benjamin scafidi

    Director of Education Economics Center and Professor of Economics

    bscafidi@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-2501
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 405

    Professor of Economics, Director of Education Economics Center

    website

  • photo of jesse schwartz

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    jschwar7@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6583
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 324

    website

  • photo of sowmdeb sen

    Part-Time Instructor of Economics

    ssen1@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

    website

  • Part-time Instructor of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis

    tsingh13@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091

  • photo of russell spears

    Part-time Assistant Professor of Economics

    rspear10@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091

  • Part-Time Instructor of Economics

    jspive21@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6091
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132A

  • photo of john thompson

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics

    jthom861@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6789
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 402

  • photo of james tompkins

    Professor of Finance

    jtompkin@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3326
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 416

    website

  • photo of roger tutterow

    Henssler Financial Endowed Chair, Director of the Econometric Center and Professor of Economics

    rtuttero@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3278
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 323

    website

  • photo of eric wearne

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    ewearne@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-3638
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 403

    website

  • photo of zhaoguo zhan

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    zzhan@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6537
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 351

    website

  • photo of minjiao zhang

    Professor of Quantitative Analysis

    mzhang16@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-4465
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 342

    website

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Economics

    xzhang53@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-6253
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 427

Staff

Name
Position

  • Program Manager

    ccarver2@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5765
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 430

  • photo of cyndi sweitzer

    Academic Program Support Specialist

    csweitze@kennesaw.edu
    (470) 578-5169
    Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 322

    • 2025 Service, Dedication & Commitment Award
    • 2023 Overall Distinguished Staff Award
    • 2018 Service, Dedication & Commitment Award
    • 2015 Teamwork and Leadership Award
    • 20 Years of Service Award
    • 15 Years of Service Award
    • 10 Years of Service Award
    • December 2010 Employee of the Month