PhD Corner
# of PhD Students
44
# of PhD Faculty
81
Our PhD Students Come From 10 Countries
China
Greece
Iran
Mexico
Nigeria
South Korea
US
Zambia
86%
of graduating PhD students recommend the program to others
100%
of graduating PhD students are employed within six months of graduation
Student Spotlight
Meet Morgan Palmerton
Morgan Palmerton’s Journey from WSU to Public Accounting and Back
Recent PhD Graduate Placements
at Peer or Aspirant Universities
JT Bates (2024)
Management
Rutgers University
Demi Deng (2023)
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Auburn University
Deepika Naidu (2023)
Marketing
University of Nevada
Vasilis Pavlopoulos (2023)
Operations and Management Science
University of Alabama, Huntsville
Yafang Li (2022)
Management Information Systems
University of Memphis
Carlos Torres (2022)
Management Information Systems
Baylor University
Oscar (Hengxuan) Chi (2021)
Hospitality Business Management
University of Florida
Natalie Liberman (2021)
Management
Indiana University
Sadegh Kazemi (2020)
Operations and Management Science
University of Houston
Current PhD Student Achievements
Three Carson College doctoral students earned top prizes in the 2023 WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association Research Exposition and Academic Showcase in the business, communication, and political sciences category. From left: Ramin Sepehrirad, operations and management science, won first place and $800. Jennifer Han, hospitality and tourism management, won second place and $500. Shirin Shahsavand, operations and management science, won third place and $300. Shahsavand’s advisor Kevin Mayo, assistant professor of finance and management science, is on the right.
Adam Bross, accounting, and former Carson professor Ryan Sommerfeldt won Outstanding Paper of the Year at the Management Accounting Section 2024 Midyear Meeting for their paper “Whose Job Is It, Anyway? The Effect of the Review.”
Previously, Bross received an IMA Doctoral Scholars Stage II grant for this project.
Jiyoon (Jennifer) Han, hospitality business management, received $2,000 from the Korean American Scholarship Foundation and a $5,000 Sookmyung Outstanding Professional Student Scholarship to support her studies.
Cathy Jun, accounting, was selected as a recipient of an IMA Doctoral Scholars Stage I grant to help with her project, “Do Words Matter? The Effect of Recognition Narrative Quality and Prosocial Motivation on Work Effort.” Jun also received a Best Reviewer Award at the Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting in 2024.
Ramin Sepehrirad, operations and management science, won a Best Reviewer Award in the operations and supply chain management division at the Academy of Management Conference in August 2023.
Shirin Shahsavand, operations and management science, was selected to participate in the FutureBAProf Workshop at the University of Iowa in August 2023.
Shahsavand was also chosen for the INFORMS “To My Younger Self” mentoring program for female doctoral students, which pairs participants with a highly successful female scholar.
Pingping Tang, Operations and Management Science, was named a 2024 WSU Woman of Distinction. Tang also received the Outstanding Student Volunteer Award from the WSU Alumni Association in 2024 for her volunteer work providing tax assistance for the WSU and Pullman community.
Current PhD Students with Accepted Publications
Gregory Denton (hospitality) and coauthors Oscar Hengxuan Chi and Professor Dogan Gursoy published “An Examination of Critical Determinants of Carbon Offsetting Behavior: The Role of Gender,” Journal of Sustainable Tourism, (2021) 30(4): 1-23.
Chi, Denton, and Gursoy also published, “Interactive Effects of Message Framing and Information Content on Carbon Offsetting Behaviors,” Tourism Management, (2021) 83, 104244: 1-10.
Jiyoon (Jennifer) Han (hospitality) and coauthors Professor Chun-Chu (Bamboo) Chen and Yao-Chin Wang published “A Hotel Stay for a Respite from Work? Examining Recovery Experience, Rumination and Well-Being among Hotel and Bed-and-Breakfast Guests,” International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (2022) 34(4): 1270-1289.
Amirhossein Moadab (operations and management science) has published “Designing a Sustainable-Resilient-Responsive Supply Chain Network Considering Uncertainty in the COVID-19 Era,” Expert Systems with Applications (Oct. 2023) 227, 120334: 1-16.
Moadab is also the lead author of “Drone Routing Problem Model for Last-Mile Delivery Using the Public Transportation Capacity as Moving Charging Stations,” Nature Scientific Reports, (2022) 12, 6361: 1-16.
Ramin Sepehrirad and coauthors Paul F. Skilton, Alan Mackelprang, and Ednilson Bernardes published “Supply Base attributes and diversion risk in a supply chain for hazardous pharmaceutical products,” Journal of Operations Management, Special Issues on Health Care Supply Chains, (2024) 1–20.