Dr. James Goodpasture

Interim Department Head of Accounting, Finance, and Economics

Associate Professor
Email: goodpasture@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 111
Phone: 254-968-1856

Program Coordinator for MACC Program

Michelle Dummar

Administrative Associate V (2024)
Email: mdummar@tarleton.edu
Office: Business Building, Room 125
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• MS in Management – Tarleton State University – Expected TBD
• BA in Educational Studies – Western Governer’s University, 2020

Dr. Keldon Bauer

Interim Dean of Dr. Sam Pack College of Business

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, College of Business and Associate Professor of Finance (2012)
Office: Business Building, Room 173
Phone: 254-968-9909
Email: kbauer@tarleton.edu

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Dr. Stephen Blythe

Professor

Email: blythe@tarleton.edu

Office: Business Building, Room 127

Phone: 254-968-9334

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Ms. Rachel Burkhart

Instructor

Office: Business Building, Room 114

Phone: 254-968-9331

Email: rburkhart@tarleton.edu

More Info:

• Master in Accounting – Tarleton State University – Accounting
• Tarleton State University – Management with a minor in Accounting

Dr. Yong Chen

Visiting Professor

Office: Business Building, Room 116

Phone: 254-968-9331

Email: ychen1@tarleton.edu

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• PhD in Accounting – Lazaridis School of Business
• MBA – Lazaridis School of Business
• BA – Ontario College

Dr. Omar Esqueda

Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 115
Phone: 254-968-9908
Email: esqueda@tarleton.edu

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• Ph.D. in Business Administration from The University of Texas – Pan American
• MBA from The University of Texas – Pan American
• BBA in Accounting from Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas

Teaching Interests: Financial Management and Investments

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Dividend Policy, Firm Valuation

Dr. Laura Gordey

Assistant Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 122
Phone: 254-968-9895
Email: gordey@tarleton.edu

More Info:

• B.A., Baylor University, Speech Communication, Waco, Texas
• J.D., Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas

Teaching Interests: Business law, employment law, labor law

Research Interests: White-collar crime, employment and labor law issues

Dr. Hussain Jafri

Regents” Professor – Economics
Office: Business Building, Room 106
Phone: 254-968-9633
Email: jafri@tarleton.edu

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• PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1986
• MA, University of Wisconsin, 1980
• MS, Cornell University, 1976
• BS, AP Agricultural University of India, 1973

Teaching Interests: Managerial Economics, Economics of Health Care and Money & Banking

Research Interests: Manpower Studies in the Health Industries, Health Policy, Climate Change, and Farm Labor and Profits

Dr. Mohammad Sharif Karimi

Assistant Professor – Economics
Office: Business Building, Room 112
Phone: 254-968-9607
Email: mkarimi@tarleton.edu

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• PhD – University Putra Malaysia (UPM) – in Development Economics, (2010)
• MA – Allameh Tabataba’i University – Economics (2000)
• BS – University of Mazandaran – Economics (1998)

Teaching Interests: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Forecasting and Mathematical Economics

Research Interests: Energy Economics, Climate Change, Environmental Economics, Tourism and International Trade

Dr. Hari Katuwal

Assistant Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 123
Phone: 254-968-9907
Email: katuwal@tarleton.edu

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• PhD – University of New Mexico – Economics
• MA – University of New Mexico – Economics

Teaching Interests: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Public Finance, Statistics and Econometrics, Mathematical Economics

Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Non-Market Valuation, Choice Modeling, Wildfire Economics, Survey Design

Dr. Ebenezer Lamptey

Assistant Professor (2021)
Office: Waco – MAC 213
Phone: 254-299-8785
Email: elamptey@tarleton.edu

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• PhD, Morgan State University, Business Administration in Accounting, 2019
• MBA, Morgan State University, 2015
• Master of Accountancy, Cleveland State University, 2009
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Ghana, Economics, 1997

Teaching interests: Principles of Financial Accounting, Principles of Managerial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I & II, Advanced Financial Accounting, Auditing, Managerial Accounting

Research interests: Audit, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Governance

Professional certifications and licenses: CFE, 652953, 2013-Present

Mr. Judd Leach

Associate Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 126
Phone: 254-968-1861
Email: jleach@tarleton.edu

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• JD, Southern Methodist University, Law, 2001
• BA, University of Texas at Austin, History, 1997

Dr. Kyle Post

Associate Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 121
Phone: 254-968-9915
Email: kpost@tarleton.edu

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• LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law, 2008, New York, New York
• J.D., Arizona State University College of Law, 2007, Tempe, Arizona, Licensed in Texas
• B.S., Finance, Arizona State University, 2004, Tempe, Arizona

Teaching Interests: Federal income taxation, estate and gift taxation, business law, employment law

Research Interests: Federal taxation, tax issues in agriculture, legal and practical issues in estate planning, business law

Dr. Nina Rogers

Associate Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 105
Phone: 254-968-1922
Email: nrogers@tarleton.edu

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• Ph.D. in Finance, Minor Economics, University of North Texas, 2014, Denton, Texas
• MS in Real Estate, University of North Texas, 2013, Denton Texas
• Texas Real Estate License, 2003, Broker 2006 to current
• Texas Insurance License, 2005, Texas Property and Casualty and Texas Life, Accident and Health Insurance (not currently active)
• MBA in Corporate Finance, University of Dallas, 1995, Irving, Texas
• BS in Zoology, Texas A&M University, Summa cum Laude 1976, College Station, Texas

Teaching and Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Real Estate and Insurance

Dr. Jiwoo Seo

Assistant Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 105
Phone: 254-968-9334
Email: jseo@tarleton.edu

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• Ph.D. in Accounting from University of Texas at El Paso        
• M.S. in Accountancy from California State University, San Bernardino
• B.S. in Accounting from California State University, San Bernardino

Teaching Interests: Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Data Analytics

Research Interests: Managerial Characteristics, Disclosure, Contracting, Corporate Governance

Professional certifications and licenses: CPA

Dr. Sundarrajan Sankar

Professor
Office: Fort Worth Campus, Room 341
Phone: 817-717-3313
Email: sundar@tarleton.edu

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• Ph.D. – 1995
• MA – University of Alabama, 1990
• MBA – 1985
• BA – University of Bombay, 1981

Mr. Alex Tanter

Assistant Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 107
Phone: 254-968-9183
Email: atanter@tarleton.edu

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• MA – The University of Massachusetts Amherst – Economics
• BA – University of Warwick, England – Economics and Politics

Teaching Interests: Intermediate Micro Economics, Environmental Economics, US Economic Development

Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Financial Economics

Dr. Charles (Chuck) Thomas

Professor
Office: Business Building, Room 120
Phone: 254-968-9914
Email: cthomas@tarleton.edu

Ms. Karen D. Varnell

Assistant Professor (2006)
Office: Fort Worth Campus, Room 322
Phone: 817-717-3328
Email: varnell@tarleton.edu

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• MBA – Tarleton State University (1998)
• CPA – (1988)
• BS – Angelo State University (1985)

Teaching Interests: Accounting