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Turner College and TSYS School Comprised of Diverse Faculty and Credentials

A number of Turner College and TSYS School faculty have either retired or departed for other institutions in the past few years. During the same period, the Turner College and TSYS School have each hired new faculty. It has been some time since Turner Business provided an update on the professoriate comprising the Turner College and TSYS School. The lists below provide the names of faculty, by academic discipline, in the Turner College and TSYS School. Included alongside each name is the institutional source of each individual's doctorate degree.

Turner College/TSYS School Faculty

ACCOUNTING: Jasmine Bordere, University of Alabama Charles Boster, University of South Carolina | Fonda Carter, Mississippi State University Uma Sridharan, University of Iowa

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Riduan Abid, Auburn University | Hyrum Carroll, Brigham Young University | Linqiang GeAuburn University | Rania Hodhod, University of York | Md Amjad Hossain, Kent State University | Yesem Kurt-Peker, Indiana University | Rodrigo Obando, Old Dominion University Lydia Ray, Louisiana State University Rahmatullah Roche, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Neal Rogers, Auburn University Lixin WangIllinois Institute of Technology | Jianhua Yang, University of Houston | Yi Zhou, Auburn University

ECONOMICS: Ben Blair, University of Florida | Tesa Leonce-Regalado, University of Wyoming | Fady MansourMiddle Tennessee State University | Frank Mixon, Auburn University | Wen Shi, Auburn University

FINANCE: Joshua Brooks, University of Alabama | Brett Cotten, Florida State University | Gisung MoonUniversity of Missouri

MANAGEMENT: Phil Bryant, University of Memphis | John Finley, University of Georgia | Kirk HeriotClemson University | Johnny Ho, Georgia Institute of Technology | Kevin Hurt, University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley | Mark James, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Deb Kidder, University of Minnesota Laurence Marsh, University of Utah Tuan Ngo, University of Wisconsin | Robin Snipes, Auburn University | Neal Thomson, Florida State University

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS: InSung Hwang, McGill University | Yoon Lee, University of Texas  Arlington | Jennifer Pitts, Auburn University

MARKETING: Sungwoo Jung, Georgia State University | Ed O'Donnell, University of Akron


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