Vice President–Undesignated Nominee

Carolyn M. Callahan
Carolyn M. Callahan is the Doris M. Cook Accounting Professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas and also serves as Director of Accounting Doctoral Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University and served on the Accountancy faculty at the University of Massachusetts where she held the KPMG Faculty Research Fellowship. She also served eight years on the Accountancy faculty at the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Callahan's research interests are focused on the analytical development and empirical examination of models that link the firm's accounting information to equilibrium prices in aggregate markets. She has work published in the academic accounting journals, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons. She has served on the editorial board of The Accounting Review and is currently a member of the editorial board of Accounting Horizons. She serves as an ad hoc reviewer for Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Management Accounting Research.

Professor Callahan's emphasis on the importance of teaching as well as research is evidenced by two university-wide Teaching Citation Awards at Michigan State University and the University of Massachusetts and a national citation for classroom innovation funded by the Lilly Endowment.

She has a long history of service to the American Accounting Association. She has chaired or served on a number of AAA committees including New Faculty Consortium, the Council, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Steering Board, Competitive Manuscript Award, Nominations, Globalization Initiatives Committee, Second AAA Globalization Conference (Cambridge), Faculty Diversity and Initiatives, Annual Program, and the Notable Contributions Screening Committee.

In giving back to the community, Professor Callahan was a founding member of The Ph.D. Project for minority doctoral students in accounting as well as finance. In August 2000, she was awarded the organization's highest award for outstanding leadership, commitment, and service to the accounting academic profession. Most recently, Professor Callahan was honored to receive the American Association of Higher Education's Harold Delaney Exemplary Educational Leadership Award.

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