 | Robert (Bob) D. Allen is Professor and David Eccles Faculty Scholar at The University of Utah, having served on its faculty since 1991. Bob currently serves the AAA as a member of AAA Publications Committee (2017-20) and the Auditing (AUD) and TLC Sections. Bob served as the inaugural AAA Council Chair (2011–13), Chair of the AAA Council Advocacy Task Force (2013–14), as member of the AAA Council Committee on Awards Committees (2011–12) and on AAA Council for TLC Section (2010–12). He has served as a member of the AAA Governance Committee (2016-19), AAA Notable and Distinguished Contributions to Accounting Literature Award Screening Committee (2016-17), AAA Sections and Regions Strategy Task Force (2011–12), AAA Branding Task Force (2010–11), CTLA Conference Steering Committee (2008–09), and AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award Committee (2003–04) and (1999– 2000). Bob served the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum (TLC) Section as President (2010–12), Nominating Committee Chair and member (2016-17 and 2014-15), Midyear Meeting Program Chair (2011-13), and Vice President Academic (2008-10), and the Auditing (AUD) Section as Chair of the Section’s Auditing Standards Committee (2005–06). Bob has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including The Accounting Review, Accounting Horizons, Advances in Accounting Education, Issues in Accounting Education, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Current Issues in Auditing, Internal Auditing, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Applied Business Research, and Journal of Forensic Accounting. He served as Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education, Editor of the Faculty Development Update for Accounting Education News (2011–12), and on the Editorial Board of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (2008-12). With twenty-nine years’ experience as a faculty member, Bob has received academic awards for excellence in both research and teaching including the AAA/J. Michael and Mary Anne Cook/Deloitte Foundation Prize (2018, Graduate Category), the AAA/Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award (2008), the David Eccles School of Business Brady Superior Teaching Award (2017), Professional MBA Distinguished Teaching Award (2016), and the Beta Alpha Psi–The University of Utah Chapter’s Business Professional of the Year (2009). Bob was inducted into the TLC Section Hall of Honor in 2013. At The University of Utah, Bob recently served on the University Senate Executive Committee and previously as David Eccles School of Business Faculty President and Director of the School of Accounting. He has served on the Board of Directors of a U.S. bank, and gained professional experience with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells as an auditor, prior to obtaining his Ph.D. at Michigan State University. |
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| Beth B. Kern is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Business Programs and Professor of Accounting at the Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics at Indiana University South Bend. Beth currently serves as a member of the AAA Education Committee (2017-20), has served on AAA Council (2002-04), and as a member of the AAA Governance Committee (2017-19). She is a member of AAA’s ATA and Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Sections. She has served ATA as President (2002-03), Vice President (2001-02), Vice President-Finance (2014-15) and Board of Trustees (1998-2000). She has served in a variety of roles for numerous ATA committees including chair for several committees. Beth has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, The Accounting Review, Journal of the American Taxation Association, Journal of Accounting Education, Accounting Education: An International Journal, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Accounting Historians Journal, and Public Finance Quarterly. Beth is currently on the Editorial Review Board of Journal of Accounting Education and the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She has served as Co-Editor of Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, and on the Editorial Review Board of The Journal of the American Taxation Association and Advances in Accounting Education. With thirty-four years’ experience as a faculty member, Beth has received several awards for excellence including Indiana University South Bend Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year (2014), Indiana CPA Society Outstanding Educator Award (2010), Indiana University’s Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence (2010), ATA Section’s Outstanding Service Award (2009), and Indiana University’s Trustees’ Teaching Excellence Award three times. Having served on the faculty at Indiana University South Bend since 1995, Beth has served in a number of capacities supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning throughout the Indiana University system. She served as Director of Indiana University’s Mack Center (2012-16), a center dedicated to fostering the scholarship of teaching and learning across all disciplines and all campuses of Indiana University. She has also been a member of Indiana University’s teaching excellence academy, FACET, since 2000 serving it in a variety of roles including as its Associate Director. Beth earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University. |
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| Giorgio Gotti is Chair of the Accounting and Information Systems Department, Dr. Gary J. Mann Distinguished Professor in Accounting, and Associate Professor in the College of Business Administration at The University of Texas at El Paso, having served on its faculty since 2011. Giorgio currently serves the International Accounting Section as the Ian Hague Award for Outstanding Service Committee Chair (2019-20), and previously served as President (2015-16). He has been a member of the AAA New Faculty Consortium Committee (2015-18), AAA Global Engagement Committee (2016-17), and is a member of AAA’s APLG, IAS, and FARS Sections. Published widely in peer-reviewed journals, Giorgio’s research has appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal of International Accounting Research, Management International Review, Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation, and The International Journal of Accounting. He is co-author of International Accounting textbook (2019, 5th edition), Associate Editor of Journal of International Accounting, Auditing & Taxation (2017-present), Editorial Board Member (2017-present), Associate Editor (2014-17) of Journal of International Accounting Research, and Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Accounting (2012-present). With thirteen years’ experience as a faculty member, Giorgio has received a number of academic awards for excellence including Visiting Senior Research Scholar Fellowship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019), College of Business Administration, The University of Texas at El Paso Teaching Excellence Award (Master of Accountancy, MBA, B.S. Accounting) (2016-18, 2014, 2015), Best Research Award at AAA’s 23rd Annual Ethics Research Symposium (2018), AAA’s IAS Presidential Award for Leadership, Initiative and Service (2016), and Journal of International Accounting Research Best Paper Award (2014). Giorgio has been a Visiting Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and Visiting Professor at the University of Verona, Italy and previously served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditor in Italy and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. |
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| Ann C. Dzuranin is Dean's Distinguished Professor of Analytics in Accounting at the College of Business at Northern Illinois University (NIU), where she has served on the faculty since 2009. Ann currently serves as President of the AIS Section (2019-20) and is a member of AAA's ABO, SET, MAS, and TLC Sections. She has served AIS as Vice President (2018-19), Treasurer (2017-18), Chair of the AIS Section Boot Camp (2014-16) and Initiative for the Education Issues Committee (2013-16), and as New Scholars Consortium Coordinator (2012-13). She has served on the AAA Nominations Committee (2018-19), on the Accounting IS Big Data Advisory Board (2015-17), and the AAA Centers for Advancing Accounting Education Committee (2015). Ann has published in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Business Ethics Education, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, Journal of Business Ethics and Management Accounting Quarterly and she serves as an Editorial Review Board Member of Journal of Accounting Education. Ann has presented academic and research related to data analytics and accounting curriculum to over 1,800 people at both academic and professional conferences and her materials have been shared with more than 60 universities. With more than ten years’ experience as a faculty member, Ann has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the AAA Innovation in Accounting Education Award (2018) for her work in data analytics curriculum development, and the MAS Section’s Outstanding Case Award at the IMA/MAS Case Conference (2017). Ann is a member of NIU’s Faculty Development Advisory Committee, and a Faculty Advisor for Women in Business Professions in the College of Business. Prior to academic life, she spent 15 years in practice in both public and corporate accounting. Ann is a CPA and earned her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. |