News Release
Joseph Eisenhauer Appointed New Dean of Business Administration
Joseph G. Eisenhauer, Ph.D., has been named dean of the College of Business Administration and will join UDM June 21. Eisenhauer taught finance and economics at Jesuit Canisius College in Buffalo for 18 years, and recently he was professor and chair of Economics in the College of Business at Wright State University. As the Faculty Research Coordinator at Canisius, he founded the Business Research Consortium of several universities in western New York, which promotes scholarship related to business. He is the author of more than 70 research journal articles on subjects such as entrepreneurship, social and behavioral economics, risk and insurance, political economy, labor economics and natural resources economics. Moreover, his work has been cited more than 350 times in books and journal articles worldwide.
Eisenhauer has been a visiting research fellow at the Catholic University of America and a visiting professor at the Universita di Roma, La Sapienza in Italy. He is a past president and distinguished fellow of the New York State Economics Association, and has been inducted into the business honor society, Beta Gamma Sigma, and the Jesuit honor society, Alpha Sigma Nu. He has served as an external evaluator for public and private colleges, and as a reviewer for numerous manuscripts submitted to book publishers and scholarly journals.
Eisenhauer earned his undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania before working in the banking industry. He then earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and later returned to the Wharton School as a post-doctoral fellow in Risk and Insurance. Eisenhauer has been active in his local parishes in both Buffalo and Dayton, and he looks forward to returning to a Catholic, Jesuit university.
Release date: July 14, 2010
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