Serkan Karadas, Ph.D., CFA

Welcome to my personal website!

My name is Serkan Karadas, and I am an assistant professor of finance and PNC Professor in Banking & Finance in the College of Business and Management at University of Illinois Springfield (UIS). I joined UIS in January 2021. Prior to joining UIS, I was a tenured faculty member (Associate Professor) in the Department of Economics and Finance at Sewanee: The University of the South.

In my three years at UIS, I taught 12 different courses in 30 sections. Primarily, I teach finance courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in different modalities. I have experience incorporating Bloomberg terminals, Capital IQ, and Telement into my courses. I also have a very strong liberal arts background, having graduated from one (Beloit College) and having worked and earned tenure at another one (Sewanee).

At UIS, I produced 6 peer-reviewed publications (bring my total number of publications to 15). Overall, my research involves the examination of how politics and geography affect stock returns and economic decisions. Some of my research has been accepted by such journals as The Financial Review, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, International Journal of Financial Studies, and Journal of Economics and Finance and cited by press such as Reuters, the New York Times, the Atlantic and the Economist.

I am a CFA® charterholder (since 2022). I am a member of the CFA Society Chicago, CFA Institute, Financial Management Association (FMA), and Midwest Finance Association (MFA).

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions and want to learn about the current projects I am working on. You can reach me at skara6@uis.edu and serkankaradas@gmail.com.