Ph.D. in International Business and Marketing Alumni
Alumni of the Chaifetz School of Business' 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.
Xixi Li
Assistant professor, Butler University
Dissertation: The Negative Consequences of Conspicuous Consumption: Exploring the
Influence of Personality Traits and Regulatory Orientations on Consumer Avoidance
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
Assistant professor of marketing, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio
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
Yunmei Kuang
Assistant professor of marketing at Utah Valley University
Dissertation: "Brand Scandals and Brand Communities: Insights from the Volkswagen
Emission Scandal"
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"
Woojong Sim
Assistant professor at Emporia State University
Dissertation: “Let’s not talk about that”: Effects of CPA and Tie Strength on WOM
Douglas A. Roy
Visiting lecturer of marketing, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Dissertation: "A Critical Perspective on Cooperation: Two Essays on Co-creation"
Christine Ascencio
Assistant professor of management, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Dissertation: "The Internationalization of Social Enterprises: A Managerial Perspective"
Clark Johnson
Assistant professor of marketing, Pepperdine University
Dissertation: "Intercultural Negotiations: Examining Change in Processing, Attitudes,
and Intentions Through Episodic Modeling Approach"
Brittney Bauer
Assistant professor of marketing, Loyola University New Orleans
Dissertation: "Divergence in Brand Community Membership: The Role of Social Distance
& Competing Construal"
Shih-Hao (Steven) Liu
Assistant professor of marketing, St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "The Dark Side of Product Touch – Haptic Information Overload"
Sang Bong Lee
Assistant professor of marketing, Black Hills State University
Dissertation: "Employees’ Extra-Role Behaviors Inside and Outside the Organization"
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"
Zhan Wang
Associate professor of marketing, St. Cloud State University
Dissertation: "Can Brand Pages Help Companies Communicate with Customers on Social
Media?"
Jieqiong Ma
Assistant professor of marketing, Hofstra University
Dissertation: "State Ownership, Governmental Customer Concentration, and Firm Innovation"
Michael A. Frechette
Assistant professor of marketing, Sacred Heart University
Dissertation: "Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption, Social Distance, and the Extended
Self"
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"
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"
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"
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"
Colleen M. Harmeling
Persis E. Rockwood associate professor of marketing, Florida State University
Dissertation: "Defining Moments: Effects of Transformational Relationship Events on
Firm Performance"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"