Faculty

George C. Banks is chair and professor in the department of management at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. He is also an affiliate faculty member of the Organizational Science Ph.D. program, the School of Data Science, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology master’s program. Dr. Banks has over 60 publications, including journal articles in top-tier outlets, such as Science, Psychological Bulletin, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Journal. He currently […]

Dr. Wenwen Dou’s research focuses on cutting-edge Visual Text Analytics, which integrates statistical and machine learning methods with powerful interactive visualization for analyzing large amounts of textual data. The two main threads of her research include social media analysis and science impact analysis. She is also the co-director of the Ribarsky Center for Visual Analytics […]

Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the department of management in the Belk College of Business, and in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science doctoral program at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as the director of the MBA program at the Belk College of Business and as the director of the dual MBA program with the Graduate School […]

Dr. Heggestad is a professor of psychological science and organizational science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received a Ph.D. in psychology in 1997 from the University of Minnesota under the direction and mentorship of Drs. Ruth Kanfer and Phillip L. Ackerman. His research focuses on the application of psychological measurement to […]

Nicole (Nikki) Strah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and an affiliate faculty member of the UNC Charlotte Organizational Science Ph.D. program and Industrial/Organizational Psychology Master’s program. Her research interests revolve around experiences related to justice and fairness in organizations (especially across demographic groups) and the intersection between psychology and equal employment […]

Dr. Scott Tonidandel is a professor of management in the Belk College of Business and the director of the Organizational Science doctoral program at UNC Charlotte. Scott’s research interests include issues related to leadership effectiveness, the impact of diversity in organizations and research methods and statistics. His recent work focuses on people analytics and the […]

Dr. Jill Yavorsky is an associate professor in the sociology department and in the interdisciplinary Organizational Science doctoral program at the UNC Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from The Ohio State University in 2017. Her research interests include occupational segregation patterns, dynamics of economically successful couples, divisions of labor of new parents, and […]