Faculty and Staff

Teaching and mentoring students is the first priority for Albion’s Economics and Management faculty. Because of Albion’s small class sizes, we get to know our students well.

Recent scholarly research by faculty addresses such topics as fighting botnets with economic uncertainty, ethical reasoning in management decision making, networking to develop a professional identity, equity market liberalization, cost-effectiveness of video conferencing to diagnose stroke patients in rural areas, and decision making principles of labor arbitrators in employment grievance cases.

Two Albion E&M professors have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation, and two have received Fulbright grants.

Carrie Adamczyk

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A. 2017, Albion College
M.A., 2019 DePaul
M.A., 2022 Wayne State University
Ph.D. 2024, Wayne State University
Appointed 2022

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, The Economy and Financial Markets, and Financial Markets

Office: Robinson 100
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0425

Vicki L. Baker

Professor

Department Chair

B.S., 1999, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A., 2001, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
M.S, and Ph.D., 2007, Pennsylvania State University
Appointed 2007

Scholarship: Development of professional identity and professional networks among doctoral students in business, education, and engineering. Moral disengagement and ethical decision making in business. Articles published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, and elsewhere; chapters in scholarly books.

Courses: Managing People and Organizations, Human Resource Management, Women in Business and Leadership, Management, Lessons Learned at “The Office,” Management Consulting, International Management.

Advisor: Delta Sigma Pi fraternity

Office: Robinson 111
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0238

John B. Bedient

Associate Professor

Department Chair

B.A., 1975, Alma College
M.B.A., 1978, Indiana University
CPA, 1977
Appointed 1985

Courses: Financial Accounting, Managerial Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting I and II, Auditing, Accounting Information Systems, Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting, Marketing Principles and Decision-Making, Business Functions, Management, Financial Modeling with Excel

Advisor: VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance); Site Coordinator, Accounting Society.

Office: Robinson 118
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0343

Nikhil Ganvir

Visiting Assistant Professor

Nikhil Ganvir is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Management at Albion College. He
completed his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico Department of Economics. He is an
applied microeconomist with a research interest in Development and Public Economics. His current research explores the effects of caste-based residential segregation of marginalized communities on children’s education outcomes in rural India. He is also interested in looking at the impact of the social positioning of women on their well-being. After receiving a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from India in 2011, he has worked as a Quality Control In-charge at Confidence Petroleum India Limited (CPIL) from 2011 to 2015. In 2018, he received an M.Sc. in Economics with a concentration in Financial Econometrics from Texas A&M University. In 2019, Ganvir received an M.A. in Economics from UNM.

Office: Robinson 102
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0530

Dan Lake

Visiting Professor

B.S., 1995, Michigan State
M.S., 1996, Northwestern University
Ph.D candidate (ABD), 2013, Michigan State University
Appointed 2019

Courses: Marketing Principles, International Marketing, Market Research, Consumer Behavior

Office: Robinson 101
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0422

Zhen Li

Professor

B.S., 1996, Peking University
M.A., 1999, Princeton University
Ph.D., 2004, Princeton University
Appointed 2004

Scholarship: Economics of computer networks and computer security, equity market liberalization and economic development. Articles in Journal of Security and Communication Networks and in Journal of Economic Development; papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings; chapter in scholarly book.

Courses: Principles of Microeconomics, The Economy and Financial Markets, Intermediate Macroeconomics, The Chinese Economy, International Finance, International Trade.

Office: Robinson 103
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0490

Connie O'Brien

Assistant Professor

B.A., 1991, College of St. Scholastic
CPA, Active, State of Minnesota
M.B.A., 2008, University of Minnesota Duluth
D.B.A., 2016, Georgia State University
Appointed 2022

Courses: Financial Accounting, Managerial Cost Accounting, Fraud Examination.

Office: Robinson 114
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0424

Crystal Rose

Adjunct Professor

B.B.A., 2016, Eastern Michigan University
M.A., 2016, Eastern Michigan University
D.B.A., 2020, Walsh College
CPA, Active, State of Michigan
Partner at Bond & Company
Appointed 2024

Courses: Federal Income Taxation

Office: Robinson 113
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0462

Azhar Uddin

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., 2009, University of Delhi
M.S., 2012, Madras School of Economics
M.S., 2017, University of Arizona
M.S., 2021, Washington State University
Ph.D., 2022, Washington State University

Appointed 2024

Courses: Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus, and Economics Statistics

Office: Robinson 116
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0423

Stephen Young

Assistant Professor

B.A., 1999, University of Mississippi
M.B.A., 2009, Capella University
Ph.D., 2016, Indiana Institute of Technology
Appointed 2022

Courses: Managing People and Organizations, Strategic Management, Business Law, Entrepreneurship, Project Management & Leadership, and LA 101 How Airplanes Changed The World.

Office: Robinson 112
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 517-629-0484