PhD Alumni

Our PhD program has a long history of preparing PhD students to teach and research at leading institions across the country. In 1950, the first three PhD students graduated from our program.

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Top 25 internationally in terms of alumni publications in leading accounting journals according to Brigham Young University Accounting Research Rankings

Year	Area	Name	Initial Placement	Current Affiliation
2023	Acct.	Tyler Atanasov	Purdue University	Purdue University
2022	Acct.	Daniel Yang	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021	Acct.	Mary Cowx	University of Missouri	Arizona State University
2019	Acct.	Danyang Jiang	University of International Business & Economics (Beijing)	University of International Business & Economics (Beijing)
2019	Acct.	Min Park	University of Kansas	University of Kansas
2019	Acct.	Brent Schmidt	Pennsylvania State University	Pennsylvania State University
2019	Acct.	Hailey Ballew	Rice University	Rice University
2018	Acct.	Aaron Nelson	University of Georgia (visiting)	University of Texas at El Paso
2018	Acct.	Diana Choi	Purdue University	Purdue University
2017	Acct.	Jing Liu	Chapman University	Chapman University
2016	Acct.	Allison Nicoletti	The University of Pennsylvania	The University of Pennsylvania
2015	Acct.	Bret Johnson	George Mason University	George Mason University
2014	Acct.	Minkwan Ahn	The University of Hong Kong	Sungkyunkwan University
2014	Acct.	Wonik Choi	California State University Fullerton	California State University, Fullerton
2014	Acct.	Michael Iselin	University of Minnesota	University of Minnesota
2014	Acct.	Austin Sudbury	Carnegie Mellon University	Carnegie Mellon University
2013	Acct.	Duri Park	Drexel University	Sogang University
2012	Acct.	Lin Cheng	University of Arizona	China Europe International Business School
2012	Acct.	Jennifer Sustersic Stevens	University of Notre Dame	Ohio University
2011	Acct.	Anthony Meder	Binghamton University-SUNY	Binghamton University-SUNY
2011	Acct.	Yunyan Zhang	University of Melbourne	U niversity of Adelaide
2009	Acct.	Reining Petacchi	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Georgetown University
2008	Acct.	Scott Liao	University of Toronto	University of Toronto
2008	Acct.	Yifan Wang	Private Firm	Private Firm
2007	Acct.	Sarah Rice	University of Connecticut	Texas A&M University
2007	Acct.	Jiewei (Jeff) Yu	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	University of Arizona
2006	MIS	James Wolf	Illinois State University	Illinois State University
2006	MIS	Dale Stoel	The Ohio State University	Miami University
2005	MIS	Zhuo (June) Cheng	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2005	Acct.	Yinglei Zhang	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Chinese University of Hong Kong
2004	MIS	Neeraj Mittal	Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (India)	World Bank
2003	Acct.	Keji Chen	University of Alabama	California State University-Northridge
2003	MIS	Patrick Jeffers	Iowa State University	Georgia Southern University
2002	Acct.	Brian Mittendorf	Yale School of Management	The Ohio State University
2002	Acct.	Anthony Nikias	Binghamton University	University of Ulsan (South Korea)
2002	Acct.	TaeHee Choi	Hyundai Research Institute	KDI School of Public Policy and Mangement
2002	Acct.	Gregory Sommers	Southern Methodist University	Southern Methodist University
2001	Acct.	Henock Louis	The Pennsylvania State University	The Pennsylvania State University
2001	Acct.	Naomi Rothenberg	Purdue University	University of Alberta
2000	MIS	Gautam Ray	University of Texas	University of Minnesota
1998	Acct.	Walter P. Smith	Marshall University	Auburn University at Montgomery
1997	Acct.	Kirsten L. Anderson	Syracuse University	Georgetown University
1997	Acct.	Steven T. Schwartz	Binghamton University-SUNY	Binghamton University-SUNY
1996	Acct.	Mitchell A. Farlee	University of British Columbia	Private Corporation
1996	MIS	Rakesh Gupta	Oklahoma State University	Fidelity Investments
1996	MIS	Dale L. Lunsford	The University of Southern Mississippi	The University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast
1996	Acct.	Gary K. Taylor	The University of Alabama	The University of Alabama
1995	Acct.	Scott J. Boylan	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Washington & Lee University
1995	Acct.	Suzanne M. Holifield	Private Corporation	PriceWaterhouse Coopers
1995	MIS	Raymond A. Patterson	The University of Texas at Dallas	University of Alberta
1995	Acct.	Barbara J. Sainty	Regina University	Brock University
1995	Acct.	Cynthia Williams Turner	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	The Ohio State University

_{*Those PhD alumni who have since passed away or have retired from the field are not listed.}

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