The Fowler College of Business Welcomes Seven New Professors
Seven new faculty members will join San Diego State University’s Fowler College of Business at the beginning of the 2024 – 25 academic year.
Molly Ahearne
Aheane’s research interests include personal selling and sales management, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in sales.
Dennis Ahn
A recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Dennis Ahn will begin his academic career at the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy as an assistant professor of accounting this fall.
Ahn holds a certified public accountant (CPA) license in California and has several years of experience as an accounting practitioner, including as an associate at BlackRock and as an external auditor at Grant Thornton in Los Angeles. He will be teaching two sections of Managerial Accounting Fundamentals (ACCTG 202) this fall.
Ahn’s research focuses on financial accounting and reporting, mergers and acquisitions, audit quality, and human capital.
Turk Alsabah
The Fowler College of Business will welcome Turk Alsabah as an assistant professor in the college’s finance department. Alsabah will teach the Fundamentals of Finance (BA 232) and Financial Management (BA 674) during the fall 2024 semester.
Alsabah is a research fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned his Ph.D. in finance in 2024. His research is focused on corporate finance, labor, workplace diversity and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
Divya Anand
Divya Anand joins SDSU after teaching and researching for two years as an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include social media marketing, channel management, and upper-echelon marketing.
Anand earned her Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Missouri, where she won a Graduate Teaching Excellence Award. She will teach two sections of Marketing Research (MKTG 470) during her first semester at SDSU in the spring of 2025.
Niklas Hüther
After spending four years teaching and conducting research at the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, Niklas Hüther joins the Fowler College of Business as an assistant professor of finance. Hüther earned his Ph.D. in economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne in Germany. He also served as a post-doctoral research assistant at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business for two years.
Hüther’s primary research interests are venture capital, private equity, and crime economics.
During the fall of 2024, Hüther will be teaching Entrepreneurial Finance (FIN 328).
Charles Lee
Charles Lee joins the Fowler College of Business this fall as an assistant professor of accounting where he will teach Federal Income Taxation (ACCTG 332) during the fall semester. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a credit risk analyst.
Lee’s research interests include corporate tax planning and the consequences of tax and economic policy changes. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine.
Devin Rapp
Devin Rapp is an assistant professor of management in the Fowler College of Business at San Diego State University. His research focuses on mental health at work, burnout, stigma, work-nonwork boundaries, and identification.
Rapp recently graduated from the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business. He began teaching in the MBA program at SDSU during the summer of 2024 and he will teach two sections of Management and Organizational Behavior (BA 350) this fall.
