Before the election starts, please take a few minutes to get to know the candidates on the 2020 ballot for the following Board of Director offices:

• President-Elect
• Vice President-Education
• Director-Focusing on International
• Director-Focusing on Membership

For each position on the ballot, the Board of Directors has provided guidance on the roles and responsibilities and key interests and capabilities for the position based on the Board's analysis of current projects, including ongoing Board positions and mission-related initiatives.

To view the Slate of Officers for the 2020-2021 Board of Directors, please CLICK HERE.

New officers will serve on the Board of Directors for three years beginning at the Annual Meeting in August 2020 in Atlanta, GA.

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.

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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William (Bill) R. Pasewark is Clark and Lois Webster Professor of Business in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University.

Bill has served the AAA as Chair of the AAA Issues in Accounting Education Steering Committee (2016-19), as member of the AAA Publications Committee (2014-19), AAA Intellectual Property Task Force II (2012-14), AAA Finance Committee (2008-11), and AAA Annual Meeting Committee (2007-08).  He is a member of AAA’s ABO, Auditing (AUD), Management Accounting and Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Sections.

Bill has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Horizons, Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Decision Sciences, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance, Journal of Accounting Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Advances in Accounting, Managerial Auditing and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; as well as the Journal of Accounting, Internal Auditing, Business and Society Review, and Journal of Cost Management. He served as Senior Editor of Issues in Accounting Education, Senior Associate Editor of Accounting Education: An International Journal, and on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, Behavioral Research in Accounting, and Journal of Business Research. 

With thirty-four years’ experience as a faculty member, Bill has received a number of academic awards for excellence including the Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award (2017), Texas Tech University Center for the Integration of STEM Education & Research Extra Kilometer Award (2017), Texas Tech University Integrated Scholars Award (2012), The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Teaching Award (2010 and 2005), Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2007), and Texas Tech’s student-elected My Favorite Teacher Award four times.

Having served on the faculty at Texas Tech University since 2001, Bill has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research and Director of MBA programs. There he serves on the New Member Selection Committee for the Teaching Academy, “Raise” Taskforce, Rawls Business Leadership Program, the STEM MBA Admissions Committee, and the Graduate Programs Advisory Committee. Bill is a CPA and CGMA and earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

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.

Margaret B. Shackell is Assistant Professor in the School of Business at Ithaca College having served on its faculty since 2017. 

Margaret currently serves the Management Accounting Section as Membership Outreach Committee Chair (2015-present), CGMA Teaching Symposium Committee Chair (2018-20), Outstanding Case Award at the IMA/MAS Case Conference Co-Chairperson (2019-20) and served previously as IMA/MAS Case Conference Co-Coordinator (2018-19), Treasurer (2013-15), Northeast Region Coordinator (2009-13), and Jim Bulloch Award for Innovations in Management Accounting Education Committee Chair (2008-09). She is also a member of AAA's ABO, AIS, Auditing (AUD), GNP, and TLC Sections.

Margaret has published in peer-reviewed journals including Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Strategic Management Journal, Financial Management (FM) Magazine, and Strategic Finance, serves as an Editorial Advisory and Review Board Member of Issues in Accounting Education, Associate Editor for the IMA Education Case Journal, and is digital co-author responsible for online content and pedagogy of the Managerial Accounting for Managers textbook franchise. She has also published in the IMA Educational Case Journal and FAMe-Jagazine. She has given numerous research presentations across AAA meetings, at Global Management Accounting Research Symposiums, and universities in the United States and Canada related to performance measurement, incentives, and decision making.

With twenty years’ experience in higher education, Margaret has received a number of awards for excellence including the Institute of Management Accountant’s Lybrand Award (2018) and the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business Dincolo Award (2003).

Margaret has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Binghamton University, and the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the academy, Margaret spent seven years in public accounting practice, and three years developing professional educational materials for a public accounting firm. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant in Canada and earned BA and MAcc degrees from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.