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Faculty Credentials : Fall 2007
Economics & International Bus


1. Juventino Ulyses Balderas (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ECONOMICS -- ITAM, (MEXICO CITY, MEXICO)(1998)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER(1999)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER(2005)
2. Milo D. Berg JR (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BSB ACCOUNTING -- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA(1981)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1996)
  • Statistics/Econometrics 18
  • 8 peer-reviewed publications which utilize statistical methods.
3. Edward F Blackburne (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS(1992)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1998)
4. Donald L Bumpass (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ECONOMICS -- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY(1966)
  • MS ECONOMICS -- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY(1973)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY(1976)
  • 13+ published articles in peer-reviewed journals. AWARDS: President's Teaching Award Nominee, Department of Economic & Honors Programs, Texas Tech University, 1987. Outstanding Professor in Honors Program, Texas Tech University, 1985-86. New Faculty Grant, Texas Tech University, 1982. Recipient of Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Northern Iowa, 1977 CREATIVE ACTIVITY Applied Economics on Video, 1996 - 1998 (15 programs covering an introduction to micro and macroeconomics) Applied Economics by Satellite, 1992 (42 programs, each 45 minutes in length) Applied Economics by Satellite, 1990 (45 programs, each 45 minutes in length) Applied Economics by Satellite, 1989 (45 programs, each 45 minutes in length) Spectrum Series, Conversations With America's Leaders (6 videotaped interviews of America's corporate leaders each approximately 15 minutes in length):
  • "Factors Influencing Governors' Salaries, 1961-2001," (with Mark Tuttle), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 34, April 13, 2010. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol10/iss1/art34
5. Marilyn Musick Butler (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA MANAGEMENT -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1999)
  • MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2001)
  • EDD EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2008)
  • Economics 18
  • Management 21
  • Educational Leadership 24+
  • Regularly score in top quartile nationally using the IDEA teacher evaluation system. IDEA is a nationally bench-marked instrument based on faculty members teaching within the same broad-based discipline.
  • David L. Clark UCEA National Scholar, 2007
  • Refereed articles 2004(1), 2007 (1), reviewed published cases 2007 (2), presentations 2006 (1), 2007 (1).
6. Viera Chmelarova (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • MS MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS -- COMENIUS UNIVERSITY IN BRATISLAVA (SLOVAKIA)(1995)
  • MS APPLIED ECONOMICS -- ACADEMIA ISTROPOLITANA NOVA IN SVATY JUR (SLOVAKIA)(1999)
  • MS ECONOMICS -- LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE(2002)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE(2007)
  • Mathematics 6
  • Econometrics/Statistics 18
7. Mark W. Frank (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS POLITICAL SCIENCE -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • MS APPLIED ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS(1999)
  • PHD POLITICAL ECONOMY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS(2000)
  • Economics 24+
  • Statistical Methods 21
  • Public Policy 18
  • One book and eight peer-reviewed articles within the fireld of economics.
8. Donald G Freeman (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA ACCOUNTING -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON(1977)
  • MBA ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON(1980)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY(1984)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY(1988)
  • Mathematics 18
  • Statistics 6
  • 19+ peer-reviewed journal articles in economics
9. Fidel Gonzalez (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • MS ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1999)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(2003)
10. Darren P Grant (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS MATHEMATICS -- THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, TALLAHASSEE, FL(1984)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, TALLAHASSEE, FL(1995)
  • Labor Economics 6
  • Three peer-reviewed publications in labor economics journals in the last six years.
  • Tested Ph.D. field in labor economics.
11. William B. Green (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA ECONOMICS -- LAMAR UNIVERSITY(1965)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY(1968)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY(1974)
12. Natalie D Hegwood (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA MARKETING/INT'L BUSINESS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1990)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON(1994)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON(1998)
  • statistics/econometrics 18
13. Tina Sue Knickerbocker (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA FINANCE -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1992)
  • MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1994)
  • Management 6
  • Finance 9
  • Marketing 3
  • Owns and operates tax service.
  • It is the belief of the Department that an individual with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) is qualified to teach introductory courses in our Department. Because of the general nature of the MBA, the individual brings a breadth of interdisciplinary knowledge to the classroom.
14. John M. Miller (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA MATHEMATICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO(1963)
  • MS STATISTICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO(1965)
  • MA STATISTICS -- RICE UNIVERSITY(2001)
  • PHD STATISTICS -- RICE UNIVERSITY(2003)
  • Time series analysis 6
  • Operations research 6
  • Experimental design 3
  • Marketing research career - chief statistician, research director, administrator, executive, owner
  • Highly Commended Winner. Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007, for paper "Banking customers varied reactions to service recovery strategies" published in International Journal of Bank Marketing (2006). Fellow. Appointed by the Proteus Management Group (PMG) at the United States Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 2007.
  • Seven accepted or appeared in past two years - one sole author, one lead author. Papers appeared in management, criminal justice and philosophy journals.
15. Valerie P Muehsam (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA ACCOUNTING -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1988)
  • MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1991)
  • PHD ACCOUNTING -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1998)
  • Statistics. To include courses in regression analysis, Analysis of Variance, Non-parametrics, Sampling, Descriptive and Inferencial Statistics 18
  • Econometrics 3
  • Regularly score in top 10% nationally using the IDEA teacher evaluation system. IDEA is a nationally bench-marked instrument based on faculty members teaching within the same broad-based discipline.
  • Earned the Excellence in Teaching Award for Sam Houston State University, 2003. One award per year and a faculty member may earn the award only once. Was a finalist four times.
  • Responsible for the college's AACSB accredited assessment efforts.
16. Hiranya K Nath (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, INDIA(1990)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, INDIA(1993)
  • MPHIL ECONOMICS -- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY (DELHI, INDIA)(1997)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY(1998)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY(2002)
  • Published 14 peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of macro and monetary economics, and information economics.
  • Reviewed articles for professional journals like Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Money,Credit, and Banking, Southern Economic Journal, Environment and Economic Development, Journal of Business Strategies
  • Received Distinguished Research Award from the Allied Academies in 2003
  • Named a partner of the Business and Information Technologies (BIT) Global Research Network at Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles in Spring 2007. Invited to be a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing
17. Troy C Quast (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS ECONOMICS -- GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • MS ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1999)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA(2006)
  • Statistics/econometrics 20
  • Two peer-reviewed publications (forthcoming) that utilize advanced econometric techniques.
18. Isabel Ruiz (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT, MEDELLIN-COLUMBIA(1999)
  • BBA BUSINESS/MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS -- (1999)
  • MA APPLIED ECONOMICS -- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY(2002)
  • PHD APPLIED ECONOMICS -- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY(2006)
19. George E. Samuels (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF AUSTIN(1965)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1969)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF OREGON(1970)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF OREGON(1972)
  • Economics 24+
  • Economics Consulting Work done relates to business and property valuation, forensic economics.
20. Markland Howard Tuttle (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BBA ECONOMICS -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1997)
  • PHD ECONOMICS -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE(2003)
21. Carlos Vargas-silva (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA GENERAL EDUCATION -- UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO(2001)
  • MA ECONOMICS -- UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO(2003)
  • MA APPLIED ECONOMICS -- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY(2003)
  • PHD APPLIED ECONOMICS -- WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY(2006)
  • Statistics/Econometrics 24+
  • Math 3
  • Eight publications using math and statistical methods

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