Department of Marketing
The department is located on the third floor of the College of Business Administration Building. The department consists of 17 faculty members who have accumulated many years of teaching experience. All of our marketing courses are taught by faculty members, not teaching assistants. Besides teaching expertise, the faculty members have distinguished themselves by publishing books and journal articles, by doing community service, and by their consulting and business experience. Augmenting the full-time faculty are a few highly qualified business professionals/executives who teach courses on a part-time basis.
The Department of Marketing is host to three student organizations: Pi Sigma Epsilon, Mu Kappa Tau and the International Business Association. Membership in PSE and IBA is not limited to marketing or international business majors. These organizations help to develop leadership, teamwork and interpersonal skills. They plan and carry out a number of real world projects every semester, and function just like small businesses. The PSE chapter is nationally recognized as exceptional. Our chapter was national chapter of the year in 1992, and has been ranked among the top chapters in the country for the past 17 years.
Chair
Vanja Djuric, DBA
Title: Chair, Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5649
Email: vd6@uakron.edu
Marketing - Full Time Faculty
Frederik Beuk, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-7903
Email: beuk@uakron.edu
Federico de Gregorio, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-7024
Email: degrego@uakron.edu
Lauren Houser, MBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8839
Email: lhouser@uakron.edu
James McKelvey, MBA
Title: Assistant Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-6373
Email: jdm155@uakron.edu
Deborah Owens, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8079
Email: deb@uakron.edu
MyungJin Chung Smale, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5413
Email: mchung@uakron.edu
Sydney Chinchanachokchai, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5136
Email: schinchana@uakron.edu
Alexa Fox, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5819
Email: aks33@uakron.edu
Tracy McCutcheon, MA
Title: Associate Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: 330-972-5429
Email: tmccutcheon@uakron.edu
Scott Miller
Title: Associate Professor of Practice
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-7650
Email: smiller2@uakron.edu
David G. Payne, MS
Title: Associate Professor of Practice, Director of the Fisher Institute for Professional Selling
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8084
Email: dpayne@uakron.edu
Andrew R. Thomas, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330)972-7119
Email: art@uakron.edu
Marketing - Staff
Lisa Littlejohn
Title: Assistant Director, Fisher Institute for Professional Selling
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-6712
Email: llittlejohn@uakron.edu
Kate Owen
Title: Administrative & Student Support Specialist
Dept/Program: Department of Marketing, Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing
Phone: (330) 972-8228
Email: kowen@uakron.edu