PhD Business Administration

Patrick Smith

M.S. in Real Estate Program Director; Associate Professor and the John Crosland, Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate and Development
Finance

Patrick is an associate professor and the John Crosland, Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate in the Finance department at UNC Charlotte. Before graduate school, he worked for nearly a decade, holding various positions of increasing importance in corporate finance and business analytics. Patrick’s research interests include real estate finance and urban economics. His current […]

Weidong Tian

Distinguished Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
Finance

Dr. Weidong Tian joined the Belk College faculty in 2008 and is currently a professor of finance and distinguished professor of risk management and insurance. Prior to coming to UNC Charlotte, Dr. Tian served as a faculty member at the University of Waterloo and a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. […]

Kelly Vosters

Associate Professor
Economics

Kelly Vosters joined the Belk College of Business in August 2016, after receiving her Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University. Her research interests lie in the areas of labor economics, applied econometrics and the economics of education. One of her specific research focuses is intergenerational mobility, examining the extent to which economic status is […]

Kiplan Womack

Associate Professor
Finance

Dr. Kiplan S. Womack is an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. His research focuses on applying the principles of financial option pricing to the valuation of real estate (real options), land values, development, redevelopment, as well as corporate finance issues (particularly mergers and acquisitions) faced by […]

Wenhao Yang

Assistant Professor
Finance

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Miaomiao Yu

Assistant Professor
Finance

Artie Zillante

Senior Associate Dean and Professor
Economics

Artie Zillante joined the Department of Economics in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Fall 2006. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University. From 2004-2006 he was the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Interdisciplinary […]