Fowler College Welcomes Seven New Professors for the Fall Semester

Seven new professors will join San Diego State University’s Fowler College of Business at the start of the fall semester during the 2020-21 academic year.

MingMing Ao
MingMing Ao will begin her academic career as an assistant finance professor at SDSU after earning her Ph.D. from the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University this summer. She will teach two sections of Intermediate Finance (FIN-325) during the fall of 2020.

Ao’s areas of expertise include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, financial institutions and financial regulation.

Marcus R. Brooks
After working for five years as an assistant professor in the accounting department at the University of Nevada, Reno, Marcus R. Brooks will join the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy this fall. Previous to earning his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at San Antonio, he was an audit associate at Deloitte.

This fall, he will teach three sections of Auditing (ACCTG-431) and will continue his research on capital markets, earning management auditing, corporate governance and derivative accounting.

Shira Cohen

Shira Cohen joins the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy as an assistant professor in accounting. Prior to entering academia, she gained work experience in both the consulting and finance industries and served in the government as a visiting scholar-in residence at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Cohen has earned recognition for her research and teaching at Temple University and Columbia University.

At SDSU she will be teaching Intermediate Accounting II (ACCTG  334). She holds both a Ph.D. and an MBA from Columbia Business School and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Parisa Haim Faridian

Entrepreneurship and innovation expert, Parisa Haim Faridian, will begin her academic career as an assistant professor in the management department this fall where she will teach two sections of Business Plan Development (MGT-460). She recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University where she earned a Ph.D. in management and another Ph.D. in public administration.

She has already won awards for her research and was also awarded a Presidential Fellowship Award from Florida Atlantic University.

Valerie Li

One of the newest faculty members at the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy is assistant professor, Valerie Li, who will teach Accounting Information Systems (ACCTG-333) this fall. Li is a seasoned academic and she previously taught and conducted research at the University of Washington Bothell for the past 10 years.

Li’s research interests include the role of financial information, earnings quality, executive compensation and social environment. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and her MBA from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

David Nanigian

Fowler College of Business financial services graduate (class of ’05) and San Diego native, David Nanigian, returns to SDSU this fall as an associate professor in the finance department. Prior to coming to SDSU, he worked in the finance departments of California State University, Fullerton and The American College in Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University.

Nanigian will teach Financial Literacy (FIN-250) and he will continue to focus his research on exchange-traded funds, mutual funds and variable annuities.

Carlos Paternina Arboleda

After 26 years as a professor at Universidad del Norte in Columbia, Carlos Paternina Arboleda, will begin his academic career in the U.S. with the management information systems department. During the fall of 2020, he will teach Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management (BA-360) and Operations and Supply Chain Management (BA-628).

Paternina’s research has been published in numerous top engineering, manufacturing and logistics journals and he has been honored as an “Outstanding Professor” while at Universidad del Norte. He earned both his Ph.D. and master’s degree in industrial engineering at the University of South Florida.