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I am a tenured Associate Professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics and a research associate with the Economic Science Institute. I received my Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Minnesota in 2008 where John Dickhaut was my advisor. Prior to graduate school, I was a controller at a private multi-state firm and senior auditor for a public accounting firm. For the 2016-17 years, I was a visiting professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. During the Spring of 2018, I was on sabbatical as a visiting professor at Emory University.

My research examines the effect of institutional features, namely accounting systems, have upon strategic behavior within group settings. The research methodology employed is exclusively experimental, and predictions of behavior are based upon economics-based analytical theory and psychology theory.  I have published several articles in peer-reviewed journals including Management Science, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Economic Inquiry, Accounting Horizons, and the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.  I have also been awarded several competitive grants including the American Accounting Association Steve Berlin/CITGO Award and Certified General Accountants/Canadian Academic Accounting Association Research Grant.  My research has been presented at numerous major conferences in accounting, economics, religion, and evolutionary psychology. 

I currently teach undergraduate Introductory Managerial Accounting and in the Master of Accounting program I teach Ethics using Adam Smith's The Moral Sentiments.  In the past, I have taught graduate Accounting for Management and Control and Financial Accounting and Analysis, as well as undergraduate Introductory Financial Accounting.

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