Business Administration (BUS)

Honors: An Honors Program in business administration is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.

Department Head: Amanda B. Bower
Associate Department Head: Andrew M. Hess

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Robert M. Ballenger, Ph.D.—(2001)-2012
Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Lehigh University

Amanda B. Bower, Ph.D.—(2002)-2012
Charles C. Holbrook Jr. ‘72 Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Gavin L. Fox, Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Florida State University

Dennis M. Garvis, J.D., Ph.D.—(1998)-2011
Professor of Business Administration
J.D., University of Iowa
Ph.D., Georgia State

Elisabeth K. Gilbert-Olson, Ph.D.—(2019)-2019
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D. University of Florida

Andrew M. Hess, Ph.D.—(2013)-2014
Ehrik Kilner Haight, Sr. Term Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Lingshu Hu, Ph.D. —(2021)-2021
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Missouri

Marc Junkunc, Ph.D..—(2017)-2017
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Keri Larson, Ph.D..—(2017)-2017
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., University of Georgia

Jeff Schatten, Ph.D.—(2016)-2016
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Georgia State University

Robert D. Straughan, Ph.D.—(2000)-2010
Professor of Business Administration and Crawford Family Dean of the Williams School
Ph.D., University of Houston

Jill Sundie, Ph.D.—(2020)-2020
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Arizona State University

Pooja Thakur-Wernz, Ph.D.—(2020)-2020
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Ph.D., Rutgers University

Julia Furr Youngman, M.A., J.D.—(2013)-2017
Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Adjunct Professor of Law
M.A., Duke University
J.D., Duke University

Business Administration majors may not minor in Data Science- Business Analytics but may minor in Data Science.