Educational Background

Degrees granted/granting universities:

• Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  
• MS, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  
• BA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Current research and teaching interest:

• Accounting theory
• Applied Ethics
• Sociology of Science

Teaching Profession

Years at Binghamton University:

1990 - Present

Courses regularly taught:

• Intermediate Accounting Theory
• Advanced Accounting Theory
• Financial Accounting Theory

Most Significant Publications

• "The Structure and Progressivity of Accounting Research: The Crisis in the Academy Revisited", (with Paul Williams), forthcoming, Accounting, Organizations, and Society.

• "Moral Imagination and Accounting Ethics," (with LIsa Flynn), Research or Accounting Ethics, 1999, Vol. 5, 217-240.

• "Accounting Imperialism and the Crisis in Financial Accounting Research, "Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1998, Vol. 9, 2, 143-169.

• "Storytelling and Ethics in Financial Economics", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1997, Vol. 8, 6, 605-632.
  

• "The Ethics of Care and New Paradigms for Accounting Practice", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 1997, Vol. 10, 3, 299-324.
  

• "The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy: Lessons for Accounting Ethics Education", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1996, Vol. 7, 1/2, 33-54.
  

• "Theory and Politics: Lessons from Feminist Economics", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 1995, Vol. 8, 3, 34-59.
  

• "Beyond Economic Man: Lessons for Behavioral Research in Accounting", Behavioral Research in Accounting, 1994, Vol. 6, Supplement, 163-185.
  

• "Bond Ratings, Bond Yields and Financial Information" (with David Ziebart), Contemporary Accounting Research, 1992, Fall, 252-282.
  

• "Determinants of Corporate Pension Funding Strategy" (with Jere B. Francis), Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1987, Vol. 9, 1, 35-59.
  

• "Regression Strategies When Multicollinearity Is A Problem" (with Douglas K. Pearce), Journal of Accounting Research, 1985, Spring, 405-407.

Selected Recognitions

• Chair of the Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association 2000-2002

• President/Program Chair - Northeast Region American Accounting Association - 1996-1998
  

• Chair of the Binghamton University Faculty Senate - 1995-1996
  

•  KPMG Peat Marwick Faculty/Research Fellow - 1987-1991
  

• Gold Medal for the State of Missouri and Elijah Watt Sells Certificate with High Distinction - May 1978 CPA exam