Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Elizabeth (EB) Altiero Poziemski, Ph.D., is the Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) Program Director & Advisor in the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting. Prior to joining the University of Central Florida, Professor Altiero Poziemski earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked as a public accountant for Ernst and […]

Department of Economics Sami Alpanda is a macroeconomist with research interests in monetary and fiscal policy, macro-financial linkages, housing and international economics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2004. Prior to joining the UCF faculty in 2015, he worked in various research positions at the Bank of Canada.

Harry J. Paarsch was born in Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, and grew up in British Columbia, first in the village of Clinton, in the Cariboo region, which is located in the southern interior of the province, and then in the village of Qualicum Beach, on Vancouver Island. After attending grade schools in Dog Creek, as […]

Joseph Johnson joined the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting in 2015 after receiving his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. His research focuses on judgment and decision-making in financial and managerial accounting settings using techniques from both psychology and experimental economics. He is particularly interested in research about corporate social responsibility disclosure as well as research […]

Dr. Lu is a Professor of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida and her undergraduate degree from Tongji University. She also obtained her MBA and Master of Science in Real Estate degree from the University of Florida. She has […]

Dr. Michael Pape has had a long-standing career in both the biotech industry and academia. Mike is Professor of Practice in the Department of Management within the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida where he has been teaching entrepreneurship since 2015. As the Dr. Phillips Entrepreneur in Residence, Mike also serves […]

James G. (Jim) Combs (PhD, Louisiana State University) is the Della Phillips Martha Schenck Chair of American Private Enterprise at the University of Central Florida and Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Jim’s research is primarily in the areas of family business, franchising, research synthesis, and corporate governance, and appears in journals such as […]

Peter Resch is an Associate Lecturer in International Business at UCF College of Business and Associate Chair of the Finance Department. He teaches courses in International Business at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. Dr. Resch has also taught programs at the University of Wisconsin, the IQS School of Management (Barcelona, Spain), University of Applied […]

David M. Harrison, Ph.D., is the Howard Philips Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor of Real Estate in the Dr. P. Phillips School of Real Estate at UCF. He also is the Director for Dr. P. Phillips Institute for Research & Education in Real Estate. His primary research interests involve real estate investment trusts and mortgage […]

Professor Singh was the Bolton-Perella Endowed Professor of Finance at Lehigh University from 2011-2015 before moving to UCF this summer. Prior to his move to Lehigh in 2011, he was a Professor of Finance at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Professor Singh was in charge of the Undergraduate Program in Finance […]