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

• Implied Future Policy Promises and Firm Leverage 

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (forthcoming)

with Justin Balthrop

• 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 (2024)

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

• 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)

Southern Finance Association 2025, 2024*, 2022

Financial Management Association 2025*, 2022, 2017, 2016

European Finance Association 2020

Western Finance Association 2018*

SFS Calvacade 2018

Midwest Finance Association 2018

China International Conference in Finance 2017

REFERENCES

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