Department of Marketing

The department is located on the third floor of the College of Business Administration Building. The department consists of 17 faculty members who have accumulated many years of teaching experience. All of our marketing courses are taught by faculty members, not teaching assistants. Besides teaching expertise, the faculty members have distinguished themselves by publishing books and journal articles, by doing community service, and by their consulting and business experience. Augmenting the full-time faculty are a few highly qualified business professionals/executives who teach courses on a part-time basis.

The Department of Marketing is host to three student organizations: Pi Sigma Epsilon, Mu Kappa Tau and the International Business Association. Membership in PSE and IBA is not limited to marketing or international business majors. These organizations help to develop leadership, teamwork and interpersonal skills. They plan and carry out a number of real world projects every semester, and function just like small businesses. The PSE chapter is nationally recognized as exceptional. Our chapter was national chapter of the year in 1992, and has been ranked among the top chapters in the country for the past 17 years.

Chair

Deborah Owens, Ph.D.

Deborah Owens, Ph.D.
Title: Interim Department Chair, Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8079
Email: deb@uakron.edu


Marketing - Full Time Faculty

Frederik Beuk, Ph.D.

Frederik Beuk, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-7903
Email: beuk@uakron.edu


MyungJin Chung Smale, Ph.D.

MyungJin Chung Smale, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5413
Email: mchung@uakron.edu


Vanja Djuric, DBA

Vanja Djuric, DBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Analytics
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330 972-5649
Email: vd6@uakron.edu


Lauren Houser, MBA

Lauren Houser, MBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8839
Email: lhouser@uakron.edu


James McKelvey, MBA

James McKelvey, MBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-6373
Email: jdm155@uakron.edu


David G. Payne, MS

David G. Payne, MS
Title: Associate Professor of Practice, Director of the Fisher Institute for Professional Selling
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8084
Email: dpayne@uakron.edu


Cynthia Tomasch, MBA

Cynthia Tomasch, MBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5446
Email: tomasch@uakron.edu


Sydney Chinchanachokchai, Ph.D.

Sydney Chinchanachokchai, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5136
Email: schinchana@uakron.edu


Federico de Gregorio, Ph.D.

Federico de Gregorio, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-7024
Email: degrego@uakron.edu


Alexa Fox, Ph.D.

Alexa Fox, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5819
Email: aks33@uakron.edu


Tracy McCutcheon, MA

Tracy McCutcheon, MA
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-7242
Email: tmccutcheon@uakron.edu


R. J. Nemer, J.D.

R. J. Nemer, J.D.
Title: Dean
Dept/Program: Dean's Office
Phone: (330) 972-7442
Email: rjn@uakron.edu


Andrew R. Thomas, Ph.D.

Andrew R. Thomas, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330)972-7119
Email: art@uakron.edu


Marketing - Staff

Lisa Littlejohn

Lisa Littlejohn
Title: Assistant Director, Fisher Institute for Professional Selling
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-6712
Email: llittlejohn@uakron.edu


Brenda Papoi

Brenda Papoi
Title: Administrative & Student Support Specialist, Academic Operations Processes
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing, Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8228
Email: papoi@uakron.edu