Phil Smith Fellows and Professors

Anil Bilgihan, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Professor
Department of Marketing
Mangurian Foundation

Anil Bilgihan, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Professor in the Department of Marketing. Bilgihan joined the College of Business at Florida Atlantic in 2013 from Ohio State University. Since joining Florida Atlantic, he has published more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific articles that have been cited 17,000 times. His research involves the use and impact of technology, user experience, and digital marketing. His publications have appeared in journals such as Tourism Management, Hospitality Management, and Journal of Service Management. As a Phil Smith Professor, Bilgihan has been busy both in and out of the classroom. He has mentored students in a variety of marketing classes including International Marketing, Consumer Analytics, and Hospitality Management. He also served as co-chair for the Technology and Innovation Track at the 2024 Summer American Marketing Association Conference. Read More LESS

Cheryl Burke Jarvis, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Professor
Department of Marketing 

Cheryl Burke Jarvis, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Professor in the Department of Marketing, and previously served as department chair for five years. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&M University, and a doctorate in marketing from Indiana University, in addition to having more than 10 years of professional experience in advertising and marketing. Jarvis’ research focuses on improving understanding of customer relationships and relationship failure and recovery; the interaction of frontline employees and customers in the coproduction and delivery of services; and improving analytical methodologies used in marketing research. Her work has been published in top journals including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Business Research. Read More LESS

Christopher Boudreaux, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow 
Department of Economics

Christopher Boudreaux, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Economics. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate from Florida State University and taught at Texas A&M International University prior to Florida Atlantic. His teaching and research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and the economic analysis of public policy. Dr. Boudreaux is the author of 40 articles in refereed journals, appearing in such outlets as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Research Policy, and Small Business Economics. Boudreaux is currently ranked No. 5 in the state of Florida for his research in economics in the last 10 years and is in the top 10% of all authors in entrepreneurship research. Read More LESS

Bryan Cutsinger, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Economics 

Bryan Cutsinger, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Economics. Cutsinger serves as an associate editor of Public Choice and is a Sound Money Project fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Cutsinger’s research focuses on monetary theory and political economy. His work has been published in journals such as the European Economic Review, Public Choice, and the Southern Economic Journal. Bryan received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his master’s degree and doctorate in economics from George Mason University. He has been a key contributor in student outreach, having served as a moderator for Phil Smith Speaker Series events and hosting a weekly reading group with undergraduate students in the Florida Atlantic University College of Business. Read More LESS

Sofia Johan, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow 
Department of Finance

Sofia Johan, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Finance. She earned her first degree in law from the University of Liverpool and her LLM in international law from the University of Warwick. She also earned a doctorate in law and economics from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Johan is the author of six books and more than 75 articles in refereed journals. Her research has appeared in such leading journals as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Oxford Review of Economics. She is a co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and an associate editor of the British Journal of Management. Read More LESS

 

Mingxiang Li, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Management

Mingxiang Li, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and professor in the Department of Management. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses primarily on exploring the factors that affect firm performance, innovation and entrepreneurship. He also studies strategic leadership and research methods. Dr. Li has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of World Business, Review of Quantitative Finance, and Accounting and the Leadership Quarterly. His research has won awards such as the 2020 International HRM Scholarly Research Award, Human Resource Division of the Academy of Management, 2018 Schulze Publication Award (Theory and Research), 2015 Emerald Citations of Excellence, and the 2011 and 2013 Sage Publications on the Best Student Paper for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management. He also won Florida Atlantic’s 2018 Scholar of the Year. Read More LESS

Melanie Lorenz, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Marketing
Mangurian Foundation

Melanie Lorenz, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Marketing. A native of Germany, she has worked in banking and consulting. She then decided to become an academic and earned her doctorate in marketing at the University of Alabama. Her focus is in international business and marketing; her research has been published in the Journal of World Business, International Marketing Review, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. As a Phil Smith Fellow, Lorenz has helped the Phil Smith Center. Her points of pride include helping establish the College of Business Behavioral Insights Lab (BIL), of which she is currently the director. BIL offers technology-driven experiential learning and aims to equip students with the latest technology skills and knowledge that sets them apart in the workplace. In addition, Lorenz was awarded the prestigious Scholar of the Year Award from the Florida Atlantic College of Business for her outstanding contributions. Read More LESS

William Luther, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Economics

William J. Luther, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow and associate professor in the Department of Economics. Luther is also the director of the American Institute for Economic Research’s Sound Money Project, a Fellow with the Bitcoin Policy Institute and an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. The Social Science Research Network currently ranks him in the top 5% of business authors. He was recently appointed to the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, the elite White House body that counsels the President on economic policy. Luther has published articles in leading scholarly journals, including Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, Public Choice, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Contemporary Economic Policy. His work has been featured by major media outlets, including NPR, The Wall Street Journal, TIME magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, National Review, The Guardian, POLITICO, and VICE News. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate in economics at George Mason University. Read More LESS

 

Mark Packard, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Management
Mangurian Foundation

Mark Packard, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Fellow in the Department of Management. Packard started his professional career as a computer engineer before returning to school at the University of Missouri to earn his doctorate in business administration with a research emphasis in entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Florida Atlantic, he was a junior faculty member at the University of Nevada, Reno’s School of Business for six years, where he was regularly honored as one of the most successful researchers. His research on the theory of entrepreneurship and its various subprocesses – including empathy, innovation, and judgment – has appeared in many of the world’s most prestigious management and entrepreneurship journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and the Journal of Business Venturing. He recently published a new book, Entrepreneurial Valuation, which is a distillation of much of his research for a practitioner audience. He also co-founded Praxeo Consulting, which offers research-based services for improving strategic innovation and pivots. In addition to his invaluable contributions to the Phil Smith Center, he serves as research director for the Madden Center for Value Creation on campus. He is a family man, with a wife and four young children at home, and enjoys playing sports in his free time. Read More LESS

Michael Ryall, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Professor
Department of Management
Mangurian Foundation

Michael Ryall, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Professor in the Department of Management and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. His research spans strategic management, business ethics, and organizational theory, with a particular focus on human learning and value creation in business. He has published in leading journals including Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review, and is co-author of Managing the Good Life: A Commentary for Business Practitioners on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (2023). Ryall brings more than a decade of senior business experience to his academic work. He holds a doctorate in economics from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Ryall is currently the director of Policy Analysis at the Madden Center for Value Creation at Florida Atlantic University. Read More LESS

Siri Terjesen, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Professor
Department of Management

Siri Terjesen, Ph.D., is associate dean for Research and External Relations and the Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship. She is also a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Economics (Norges Handelshøyskole: NHH) in Bergen, Norway. She is ranked in the top 2% of the world’s scholars by Clarivate. In March 2026, she was appointed by current Education Secretary Linda McMahon to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), a federal advisory body to the U.S. Department of Education, for a period of six years. Terjesen’s teaching at undergraduate, graduate and executive education levels has received several awards. She has published more than 100 articles, and her work has been featured in media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, and U.S. News & World Report. She received her undergraduate education at the University of Richmond (1997), her master’s degree at NHH in Norway (2002) as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and her doctorate at Cranfield University in the UK (2006). Read More LESS

Yannick Thams, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Fellow
Department of Management
Mangurian Foundation

Yannick Thams, Ph.D., also joins as a Phil Smith Fellow in the Department of Management. Born in France, Thams grew up on a small Caribbean island called Guadeloupe, in a family of entrepreneurs. Her father was one of those entrepreneurs and founded a printing shop with no capital. Her love for the Caribbean and her passion to be close to a diverse city led her to Miami to earn a master’s degree and doctorate in international business from Florida International University. Prior to her appointment at Florida Atlantic, she was an associate professor of strategy and international business at Suffolk University in Boston. Her research focuses on examining the interplay between institutions at various levels and firms’ global strategy, board diversity, and executive/CEO succession. Her work has been published in academic outlets including the Journal of Business Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Global Strategy Journal. She currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and Small Business Economics. Read More LESS

Hong Yuan, Ph.D.
Phil Smith Professor
Department of Marketing
Mangurian Foundation

Hong Yuan, Ph.D., is a Phil Smith Professor in the Department of Marketing and also serves as the department chair. Yuan joined the College of Business from the University of Oregon, where she was a professor of marketing at the Lundquist College of Business. Since arriving at Florida Atlantic, she has focused on the establishment of a “Business Insights Lab” to further elevate research in the department, as well as fine-tune the department’s undergraduate majors. She also plans to launch a master’s degree in marketing and re-establish the Ph.D. program in marketing. Yuan earned her doctorate in marketing and master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include firms’ pricing and promotion strategy, consumer information research, and behavioral economics. Her research has appeared in prestigious publications including the Journal of Marketing, Management Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, and Psychology & Marketing. Read More LESS