Faculty Research Day

Will Gerken is the PNC Endowed Associate Professor of Finance. He has a PhD in Finance from Michigan State University, MS and MBA degrees from Georgia Tech, and BS degrees from West Virginia University. He is a CFA charterholder and serves as the principal contact for the CFA Institute University Affiliation Programs (BS & MSF). Prior to joining the Gatton College of Business, he was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University.
His research focuses on financial advisors, financial misconduct, and governance. He has published his research in leading finance journals such as: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance. His research has won best paper awards at leading international conferences. His research has also been featured in the international media such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and NPR and cited by Securities Exchange Commission.

Russell Jame is the Garvice D. Kincaid Associate Professor of Finance. He has a PhD in Finance from Emory University, and a BS in Business Administration, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Gatton College of Business, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney Australia.
His research focuses on mutual funds and hedge funds, financial accounting, and behavioral finance. He has published his research in leading finance and accounting journals such as: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Accounting Research. His research has also been featured in the business press such as The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.

Stefan Bird-Pollan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, a D.Phil. in Modern Languages, German Literature from Oxford University, and a BA in History from the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, he was a Lecturer at Harvard University.
His areas of research include Kant, Kant's theory of the subject and its relation to Kant's ethical theory; Hegel, Hegel's theory of the subject, Hegel's aesthetics and political philosophy; Aesthetics: the German Tradition in aesthetics from Kant to Adorno; Ethics, Kantian ethics; Critical Theory, especially Adorno, Benjamin and Marcuse; Psychoanlaysis, Freud, Lacan and Object Relations Theory; and Political Philosophy: contemporary debates and history, 17th Century to the present. He has published articles in numerous journals, including Radical Philosophy, Critical Horizons, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Public Reason. 

Tian Qiu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Finance. He received his master's degree from the University of Illinois and his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. 

Anita Lee-Post is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain at the Gatton College of Business and Economics. Her research interests include sustainability, supply chain management, e-learning, and knowledge management. She has published extensively in journals such as Decision Support Systems, OMEGA, Decision Sciences: Journal of Innovative Education, Computers and Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, and Information and Management. She is the author of Knowledge-based FMS Scheduling: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective. She serves on the editorial review boards of Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Business Information Systems, International Journal of Data Mining, Modeling and Management, and Journal of Managerial Issues. She is the recipient of the eLearning Innovation Initiative Grant, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant, Human Innovative Teaching Award, Teaching and Technology Innovation Program Award, and Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation’s Research and Development Excellence Program.