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Ph.D. in International Business & Marketing Alumni

Alumni of the Chaifetz School’s Ph.D. in international business and marketing program have leveraged their education at Saint Louis University to build successful careers at a wide range of academic institutions.

Class of 2023

Essa Almutairi

Assistant Professor, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia
Dissertation: An Extended Dramaturgical Theory: Raising the Curtain on Consumer Hiding Strategies

Lauren Drury

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Dissertation: Understanding Consumer Perceptions of Sustainable Advertisements: Effects of Issue Knowledge, Cognitive Elaboration, and Construal Level

Kristina Medvedeva

Visiting Assistant Professor in Marketing, Eckerd College St. Petersburg, Florida
Dissertation: Subscribe or Not to Subscribe: Construal Level and Consumer Perceptions of Online Subscription-Based Services

Muhammad Mollah

Assistant Professor of Marketing, California State University Los Angeles
Dissertation: Product Innovation, Marketing Alliances, And Firm Performance: Investigating the Effects of CEO Regulatory Focus and Individual and Structural Boundary Conditions

Class of 2022

Yunmei Kuang

Assistant Professor of Marketing at Utah Valley University
Dissertation: "Brand Scandals and Brand Communities: Insights from the Volkswagen Emission Scandal"

Class of 2021

Nicolas Jankuhn

Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Southern Indiana
Dissertation: "Is All Money Created Equal? – The Case of Mobile Wallets and Their Influence on Payment Behavior"
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Woojong Sim

Assistant Professor at Emporia State University
Dissertation: “Let’s not talk about that”: Effects of CPA and Tie Strength on WOM
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Class of 2020

Douglas A. Roy

Visiting Lecturer of Marketing, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Dissertation: "A Critical Perspective on Cooperation: Two Essays on Co-creation"

Class of 2019

Christine Ascencio

Assistant Professor of Management, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Dissertation: "The Internationalization of Social Enterprises: A Managerial Perspective"
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Clark Johnson

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Pepperdine University
Dissertation: "Intercultural Negotiations: Examining Change in Processing, Attitudes, and Intentions Through Episodic Modeling Approach"
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Brittney Bauer

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University New Orleans
Dissertation: "Divergence in Brand Community Membership: The Role of Social Distance & Competing Construal"
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Class of 2018

Shih-Hao (Steven) Liu

Assistant Professor of Marketing, St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "The Dark Side of Product Touch – Haptic Information Overload"
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Sang Bong Lee

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Black Hills State University
Dissertation: "Employees’ Extra-Role Behaviors Inside and Outside the Organization"
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Chuandi Jiang

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Emporia State University
Dissertation: "National Culture and the Breadth and Depth of Firms’ International Diversification Portfolio Strategy: The Attenuating Effects of Social Contacts and the Coevolution"
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Class of 2017

Zhan Wang

Associate Professor Of Marketing, St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "Can Brand Pages Help Companies Communicate with Customers on Social Media?"
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Class of 2016

Jieqiong Ma

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Hofstra University
Dissertation: "State Ownership, Governmental Customer Concentration, and Firm Innovation"
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Michael A. Frechette

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Sacred Heart University
Dissertation: "Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption, Social Distance, and the Extended Self"
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Wootae Chun

Associate Professor of Marketing, the University of Northern British Columbia
Dissertation: "An Examination of the Relationships Between Consumer Attitudes Linked to Globalization, Customer Citizenship Behavior (CCB) Toward Foreign Firms, and Foreign Product Purchase Intention"
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Class of 2015

Alexey V. Semenov

Assistant Professor of International Business and International Management, Belmont University
Dissertation: "Offsetting Liability of Foreignness within Various Geographic and Institutional Contexts: Examining the Effects of Cultural Intelligence and Firm’s Advantages on the MNE’s International Strategic Choices"
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Arilova A. Randrianasolo

Assistant Professor and Chair of Marketing Department, Butler University
Dissertation: "Gaining Consumer Legitimacy: Developing a Measure and Framework of Legitimacy within Consumer Stakeholders"
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Class of 2014

Takisha A. Salley-Toler

Associate Professor, Stevenson University
Dissertation: "The Formation and Examination of the Multiethnic Consumer Identity Construct in the Context of Culture Specific Brand Attitudes"
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Colleen M. Harmeling

Persis E. Rockwood Associate Professor of Marketing, Florida State University
Dissertation: "Defining Moments: Effects of Transformational Relationship Events on Firm Performance"
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Birton J. Cowden

Academic Director, Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship Center, Kennesaw State University
Dissertation: "Finding Innovative New Ventures in China and the United States: An Institutional Context"
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John Charles Blewitt

Assistant Professor of Management at King's College
Dissertation: "A Time of Crisis is a Time of Opportunity for Organizations: A Strategic Examination of Managerial Response and Stakeholder Perception in Times of Crisis"
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Class of 2013

Karin M. Staub

Research Associate, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO
Dissertation: "Multilingual Print Advertisements and Cosmopolitanism: Associations, Perceptions, and Attitudes Triggered by Foreign Interrupts"
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Carri R. Tolmie

Assistant Professor of International Business, Elon University
Dissertation: "Values and Governance and Policies, Oh My: An Institutional- Stakeholder Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility"
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Weidong Rong

Assistant Professor of Marketing, The College of Brockport State University of New York
Dissertation: "Bring Social Capital Theory Back to the Individual Level: A Multi-Level View of Salesperson’s Social Network"
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