ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Appalachian State University - Walker College of Business

Assistant Professor of Finance 2021-Present

Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business

Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Instructor 2019-2021

EDUCATION

Rice University - Jones School of Business

Ph.D. in Finance 2020

Texas A&M University

M.S. in Financial Econometrics 2013

Texas A&M University

B.S. in Economics 2011

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor - Appalachian State University

Financial Management, Undergraduate Course Fall 2021 - Spring 2025

Visiting Assistant Professor - Southern Methodist University

Derivatives, Undergraduate Course Fall 2020, Spring 2021

Visiting Instructor - Southern Methodist University

Derivatives, Undergraduate Course Fall 2019, Spring 2020

Teaching Assistant - Rice University

Managerial Economics, MBA Weekends Course Fall 2015, 2016, 2018

Managerial Economics, MBA Professionals Course Fall 2015, 2016, 2018

Managerial Economics, MBA Full-time Course Fall 2016

Corporate Finance, Undergraduate Course Fall 2013

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• CEO Short-Term Incentives and the Agency Cost of Debt 

Contemporary Accounting Research (2025)

with Brian Akins, David De Angelis, and Maclean Gaulin

• Do Firms Respond to Foreign Competitive Threats with Herding or Dispersion?

International Journal of Managerial Finance (2025)

• The Threat of Voiced Shareholder Disapproval and the Value of Voting 

Journal of Financial Research (2024)

with Justin Balthrop

• Teaching Early Exercise, the Asymmetry of Changes in Payoff, and the Speculative Value of Options 

Journal of Financial Education (forthcoming)

with Jeff Hobbs and Alex Holcomb

WORKING PAPERS

• Trade as I say, Not as I do: Management Rhetoric and Insider Stock Sales  

with Justin Balthrop and Ryan Clark

• Implied Future Policy Promises and Firm Leverage 

with Justin Balthrop

• The Effect of Informative Events in a Contingent Claims Pricing Framework: Evidence from IPOS 

with Alex Holcomb and Paul Mason

• Credit Indexes, Arbitrage, & Contagion 

with Justin Balthrop

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Conferences and Seminars

(* Co-author presentations)

Presenter*, Southern Finance Association (Palm Beach, Florida) 2024

Presenter, Southern Finance Association (Key West, Florida) 2022

Presenter*, Financial Management Association (Atlanta, Georgia) 2022

Seminar, Appalachian State University 2021

Seminar, University of Kansas 2021

Seminar, Clemson University 2021

Presenter, European Finance Association (Helsinki, Finland) 2020

Presenter*, Western Finance Association (Coronado, California) 2018

Presenter, SFS Cavalcade (New Haven, Connecticut) 2018

Presenter, Midwest Finance Association (San Antonio, Texas) 2018

Presenter and Discussant, Financial Management Association (Boston, Massachusetts) 2017

Presenter, China International Conference in Finance (Hangzhou, China) 2017

Presenter and Discussant, Financial Management Association (Las Vegas, Nevada) 2016

Discussant, Financial Management Association (Orlando, Florida) 2015

REFERENCES

I am happy to provide research and teaching references upon request.