Faculty Profiles

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 308

Dr. John H. Batchelor's research looks at entrepreneurship, leadership, methods and organizational behavior as well as ethics, motivation and opportunity recognition. He examines aspects of gender, creativity, emotional intelligence, likelihood of success, and emotional labor.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Building 76A, Room 329

Dr. Haris Alibašić is an Associate Professor in the Public Administration Program. He researches and teaches sustainability, resilience, governance, ethics, integrity, administration and public policy. He brings a combination of 27 years of professional and teaching expertise and experience.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Building 76A, Room 323

Dr. Christopher L. Atkinson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 315

Dr. Gayle Baugh has conducted in-depth research on careers, mentoring and gender and diversity in the workplace. Baugh has examined factors that go into careers – ways to establish authenticity, developmental relationships, and the impact of mentoring on both mentor and protégé.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 313

Dr. Gerald Burch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration. He earned his Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in Organizational Behavior and minoring in Decision Sciences.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 316

Dr. Jana Burch teaches in the Department of Business Administration. She researches in the areas of creativity and innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, student engagement, and education.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 326

Dr. Justin L. Davis teaches and conducts research in several fields. His work at UWF has examined factors tying sports gambling markets to management, organizational ethics, social capital, and various aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation processes.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 323

Maggie Davis teaches in the Department of Business Administration. Her research interests include organizational behavior and ethics, leadership, and quantitative methods.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 310

A UWF alumnus, Christian Garabedian is a visiting instructor in the Department of Business Administration.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76 Room 113

Kelly Massey has been the Regional Director for the Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at UWF since 2014.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 317

Dr. Tim McIlveene's scholarly work explores the intricate dynamics of ESG practices, strategic management, and institutional theory, with a specific focus on how these factors influence organizational behavior and decision-making.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 319

Dr. Esmail Mohebbi teaches courses in operations management and e-Business systems. His research interests fall within the realm of mathematical modeling and quantitative analysis of problems related to supply chain management and operations management of logistics systems.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Building 74 Office 311

Dr. Lauren L. Rich teaches courses in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. She has developed a measure of organizational culture and proposed a multi-level framework for studying the indirect influence of organizational culture on individual work behavior.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 327

Dr. Shelby Solomon is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of West Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Louisiana State University in 2017. Prior to teaching at UWF, Shelby taught courses at LSU and Roger Williams University.

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 311

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• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 325

Dr. June (Jun) Wei's research covers information security and human behavior on Internet commerce, enterprise information systems development, and human information processing for cognitive tasks analysis. 

• Department: Business Administration
• Office Location: Bldg 76A Room 328

Dr. Julie Ann Stuart Williams has conducted research on recycling, open-access scheduling systems and ways to assess and improve student learning. Her research includes studies of bulk recycling, “reverse production” and electronics recycling.