Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Afshad Irani
Professor of Accounting and Head of the Department
- Holekamp Hall 109
- Email: irania@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8628
Irani teaches courses in financial accounting. His research focuses on issues related to voluntary disclosure, earnings management, financial restatements, executive compensation, insider trading and standard setting.
Aliaa Bassiouny
Lawrence Term Professor of Finance
- Huntley Hall 121B
- Email: abassiouny@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8719
Bassiouny’s teaching portfolio includes courses in managerial finance, investments, portfolio management, international finance, valuation and financial modeling. Her research interests include investments and empirical market microstructure with a focus on emerging markets.
Scott J. Boylan
Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 120
- Email: boylans@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8585
Boylan teaches financial accounting and casino accounting. He has researched taxpayer compliance, tax complexity, investment decisions, and is now examining the casino industry’s historical influence on accounting practice.
Bryan Brockbank
Assistant Professor of Accounting
- Huntley Hall 125A
- Email: bbrockbank@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8905
Brockbank teaches courses in the area of financial accounting, including introductory accounting and various topics of intermediate accounting.
Stephan Fafatas
Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 113
- Email: sfafatas@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8222
Fafatas teaches courses in financial accounting and financial statement analysis. His research focuses primarily on issues in earnings quality and auditor reputation. He has also extensively researched W&L’s financial history.
Megan F. Hess
Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 214
- Email: hessm@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8370
Hess is a 1997 alumna who teaches courses in auditing, accounting ethics and corporate sustainability. Before becoming a professor, she spent 12 years working in the industry with a focus on investigating financial statement fraud.
Sara Holland
Assistant Professor of Finance
- Huntley Hall 210
- Email: sholland@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8575
Scott Hoover
A. Stevens Miles Professor of Banking and Finance
- Holekamp Hall 121
- Email: hoovers@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8178
Hoover teaches courses in corporate finance and real estate, and his research relates to corporate social responsibility. He previously founded and managed a software company devoted to customized database software.
Simmi Mookerjee
Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 203
- Email: smookerjee@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8223
Elizabeth Oliver
Associate Dean of the Williams School and Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor in Commerce
- Huntley Hall 211
- Email: olivere@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8637
Oliver has been at W&L since 1991. She teaches courses in accounting research and corporate responsibility. She also runs the W&L London Internship Program, which combines classroom study with internship opportunities in London.
Ehi Rajsky
Assistant Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 217
- Email: irajsky@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8442
Rajsky teaches the introductory tax class at the Williams School, and runs the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
Colin Reid
Professor of Accounting
- Holekamp Hall 206
- Email: reidc@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8624
Professor Reid teaches courses in financial accounting and corporate governance to help students understand how companies communicate and the framework in which business operates. He researches audit and corporate sustainability.
Joey Smith
Assistant Professor of Finance
- Huntley Hall 114
- Email: jsmith3@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8197
Lloyd Tanlu
Ehrick Kilner Haight Term Professor of Accounting
- Huntley Hall 120
- Email: ltanlu@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8174
Lloyd teaches intermediate financial and cost accounting classes. He does research on performance evaluation, corporate governance, and management control systems.
Benedikt Wick
Assistant Professor of Finance
- Huntley Hall 309
- Email: bwick@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-8438
Emeritus Faculty
George Kester
Emeritus Professor of Finance
Kester teaches managerial finance and case courses in corporate finance. He was previously on the faculty of Bucknell University. His research interests focus on applied corporate finance and financial education.
Lyn F. Wheeler
Emeritus Professor of Accounting
Staff
Joy Swartz
Administrative Assistant II in Accounting and Politics
- Holekamp 105D
- Email: jwswartz@wlu.edu
- Phone: 540-458-5808