Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Dr. Jeff Gish earned his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business before joining the Department of Management faculty at UCF. His research is at the intersection of entrepreneurship and organizational behavior, including topics such as entrepreneurial well-being, an entrepreneur’s personal psychological resources and the depletion/recovery of those resources, individual-level […]

Dane P. Blevins is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. His research interests span a diverse range of topics and include areas such as corporate governance, entrepreneurship, gender, initial public offerings, methodological issues, new ventures, organizational reputation and signaling theory. His work appears in journals such as Academy of Management […]

David Luna (Ph.D., MBA) is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Central Florida. His main research interest is language in marketing communications. He has investigated how culture and language influence the effectiveness of marketing messages, both online and in traditional media. He is currently working in several projects studying human-machine interactions in the […]

Dr. Alex Rubenstein is an Associate Professor of Management and Ph.D. program coordinator for the College of Business at UCF. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, and dual bachelor’s degrees in business (B.A.) and psychology (B.S.) from the University of Washington. Research, Teaching, and […]

Dr. Dean Jens is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. His interest lies in the study of behavior under strategic and exogenous uncertainty and the function of markets, especially with regard to the behavior of market thickness/liquidity. In addition to research, […]

Dr. Lealand Morin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. Economics from Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests are focused on empirical and theoretical techniques in econometrics. Dr. Morin brings a great deal of teaching experience aimed at challenging students for analytical work in business. […]

Dr. Michael Tseng is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Central Florida. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, and a second Ph.D. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He also was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Finance Institute, E´ cole Polytechnique Fe´de´rale de Lausanne, Switzerland. […]

Professor Pirinsky is a Professor at the Department of Finance in the UCF College of Business and Director of the FinTech Program. Prior to joining the department, he was a Financial Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. In addition to his regulatory work, he was a full-time faculty member at […]

Dr. Sönmez is the former Associate Dean for Faculty, Research and Graduate Programs at UCF College of Business. She holds a doctorate from Penn State University, a Master’s degree from Clemson University, and a B.B.A. from Bernard Baruch College/City University of New York. Her research is interdisciplinary and applied and delves broadly into the nexus […]