Faculty and Staff
Dr. Mark Bagshaw
Professor of Management and Leadership
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4637
Office: THMS 101
Degrees: Ed.D. in Higher Education (Penn State), 1984; Master of Philosophy in English & Literature (Yale University), 1969; Bachelor of Arts in English (Penn State), 1965
Year appointed: 1993
Dr. Bagshaw is the former owner of a successful start-up in the direct-mail catalog music business. Professor Bagshaw teaches courses in the strategic management and leadership of organizations, as well as an international leadership course in the College's master of corporate communications program.
His published work focuses on planning and organizational issues in higher education and relating liberal arts education to leadership in business. He is the author or co-author of a number of professional publications and presented papers, including (with K.P. Mortimer) an influential monograph, Flexibility in Academic Staffing.
He was one of 15 educators chosen by ASIANetwork and the Hong Kong American Center to participate in the Pearl River Delta Faculty Development Program during the summer of 2005. His proposal received funding from the Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abroad Program of the U.S. Department of Education. Bagshaw teamed up with Dr. Galina An, an assistant professor of economics at Kenyon College, and Dr. Wellington K.K. Chan, a professor of history at Occidental College in Los Angeles, to develop new business enterprises and their interaction with domestic and international markets.
Dr. Bagshaw began teaching at Marietta in 1993.
Gregory Delemeester
McCoy Professor of Economics
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4630
Office: THMS 118
Degrees: Ph.D. in Economics (Texas A&M University), 1989; Bachelor's in Economics (Michigan State University), 1981
Year appointed: 1986
Dr. Delemeester holds the Milton Friedman Chair in Economics. His primary field of interest is experimental economics, and he has co-authored a classroom manual on this topic along with articles in the Journal of Economic Education and the Journal of Economic Surveys. He has also served on the editorial board of Perspectives on Economic Education Research and maintains several web pages dedicated to the classroom applications of experimental economics. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley and also serves as its Vice President of Programs.
Dr. James Falter
Associate Professor of Finance,
Fulbright Scholar (2009),
Chair of the Department of Business & Economics
Dept: Business and Economics
740-376-4769
Office: THMS
Degrees: Doctor of Business Administration (Nova Southeastern University),
Master of Business Administration (University of Toledo),
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Miami University)
Year appointed: 2007
Building on a decade of experience in the financial services industry, Dr. Falter has twelve years of teaching experience. His teaching is concentrated in Business Finance, Investments and Portfolio & Security Analysis. With a research emphasis on investor behavior in financial markets, stock market efficiency and financial institutions, Dr. Falter has several articles published in annual proceedings of the Academy of Accounting, Finance & Economics, the Institute for Business and Finance Research, the Midwest, Southern and Southwest Finance Associations. Dr. Falter holds respected industry designations of Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and he consults/conducts seminars on financial management and investment planning. He is a member of the Financial Planning Association, Midwest Finance Association and the CFA Society of Columbus.
Christopher Harris
Assistant Professor
Dept: Business & Economics
Office: THMS
Degrees: Ph.D. in Management (University of Texas-Arlington); Master of Business Administration (University of Nebraska-Omaha); Bachelor of Business Administration (Belmont University)
Year appointed: 2012
Dr. Harris has teaching and research interests in the areas of human resource management and organizational behavior. Prior to joining Marietta College, Dr. Harris gained international teaching and research experience as a professor in the Netherlands. He has taught a variety courses in the management field at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr. Harris has research interests in strategic human resource management, specifically focusing on the influence of human resource practices and human capital on employee behaviors and performance. Additionally, he has research interests in a multi-foci approach to social exchange relationships and organizational citizenship behaviors. His work has been published in journals such as: Journal of Vocational Behavior, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Personnel Review. Additionally, he has presented his research at international and regional conferences such as: Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, and Southern Management Association.
Grace Johnson
McCoy Professor of Accounting
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4631
Office: THMS 119
Degrees: Master of Accountancy (University of South Florida), 1988; Bachelor's in Accounting (University of South Florida), 1986
Year appointed: 1989
As well as teaching financial accounting, Professor Johnson is responsible for courses in accounting information systems and accounting research, and is affiliated with the College's Asian Studies Program. She has been published in Journal of E-business, Decision Management, and has two chapters in Prentice Hall's Encyclopedia of Accounting Systems, and is an active presenter at accounting and international business conferences. She co-authored a Portuguese language management information systems textbook, Sistemas de Informações: Administraçõo em Tempo Real (Information Systems: Realtime Management).
Johnson spent her 2009-2010 sabbatical working in Korea on projects related to accounting education and marriage migration. She collaborated with several Korean colleagues on papers comparing American and Korean accounting education. Her studies on migration are ongoing.
Johnson's current research interests include studies of west China rural development, rural migration in China and Korea, and experiential accounting education.
Jacqueline Khorassani
Professor of Economics
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4621
jackie.khorassani@marietta.edu
Office: THMS 104
Degrees: Ph.D. in Economics (West Virginia University), 1997; Master's in Economics (University of Oregon), 1982; Bachelor's in Public Relations and Social Affairs (College of Mass Communication, Tehran, Iran), 1975
Year appointed: 1994
Dr. Khorassani's current research focuses on the causes and the effects of the shadow economy.
Dr. Khorassani is the recipient of the "Innovative Teaching Award" at Marietta College. She has also been recognized as a finalist for the McCoy Teaching Award. In addition to Marietta College, Dr. Khorassani has conducted classes and seminars at various domestic and foreign universities such as Ohio University, West Virginia University, University of International Relations in Beijing, China, South West University of Economics & Finance in Chengdu, China, Methodist University in Piraciaba, Brazil, and Centro Universitario Metodista Izabela Hendrix in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Dr. Khorassani has presented in the international meetings such as "The Symposium on The Reform of Curriculum for Academic Finance Programs and Bilingual Teaching in Finance" in China. She has published in the Journal of Economic and Finance.
Dr. Khorassani is the Chair of the Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley and a member of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession.
Debora Lazorik
Associate Professor of Business & Economics
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4977
Office: Thomas 107
Degrees: B.A. College of St. Francis, M.S. George Williams College
Year appointed: 1980
Ms. Lazorik has more than 30 years of experience in higher education. She currently serves as the coordinator of the sports management major, teaching many sport-related courses and overseeing the internship program. Lazorik spent more than 25 years as a coach, teacher and administrator at Marietta. She has served on several NCAA committees and had a leadership role in the Ohio Athletic Conference by bringing women's athletics in as members in 1985.
She was the College's full-time athletics director from 1991-2007. She worked tirelessly at helping Marietta focus on equity and fundraising in the athletic department. She is the winningest women's basketball coach at Marietta with 131 victories in 12 seasons. She also coached volleyball for six seasons.
In 1988, she received the Professional Achievement Award from the St. Francis Alumni Association. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from the College of St. Francis in 1977 and her Master of Arts in Recreation Administration from George Williams College in 1984.
David Mead
Associate Professor
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4632
Office: THMS 109
Degrees:
Year appointed: 2011
Mead earned his MBA from Xavier University and graduated with an undergraduate degree in business from Otterbein College. He has had an extensive career in public accounting, banking and not-for-profit organizations, and was an associate with a large international accounting firm. Mead also spent over 25 years in senior accounting and finance roles in large regional and community banks and was Chief Financial Officer for two publicly traded financial institutions. In addition, he served as an interim Chief Executive Officer at a publicly traded financial institution and continues to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for that institution. Professor Mead's field of interest is the interplay of accounting and finance in the broader business perspective, particularly in large, complex organizations.
Michael Taylor
McCoy Professor of Management Leadership,
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4634
Office: Thomas, 102
Degrees: Master of Business Administration (Ohio University), 1984; Ph.D. (Harvard University), 1976; Bachelor of Theological Studies (Harvard Divinity School), 1969; Bachelor's (Carleton College), 1966
Year appointed: 1977
Dr. Taylor spent two years co-authoring Spinning Wheels and Accessories, which came out in February 2004. He has been involved with Marietta College's China Program since 1986 when he spent 1986-87 teaching marketing at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. In the fall of 1996 he taught Comparative Leadership Studies at The Foreign Affairs College in Beijing. He has been listed in Who's Who in American Education and Who's Who in the World.
Paula Lewis
Academic Secretary
Dept: Business & Economics
740-376-4633
Office: THMS 122
Degrees: Bachelor of Arts in Management, Associate Degree in Business Administration (Marietta College).
Year appointed: 1996
Ms. Lewis serves as secretary to the Department of Business & Economics as well as the History, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion Department.
She joined the College in 1996 as secretary for the Counseling and Career Center. Ms. Lewis has also worked as the Coordinator of Conferences Services for several summers. Prior to joining Marietta she served as the Insurance and Risk Manager for The Pizza People. Ms. Lewis graduated from Marietta College May 2010 with a Bachelor's in Management. She also has an associates in Business administration from Marietta College.
Ms. Lewis resides outside of Marietta with her husband, Jeff, and son, Nick.