PhD Student Directory
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Basel Al-Dghishem Email: basel@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Sevil Sönmez Research Topic: Events in Saudi Arabia |
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Ying “Lily” Chao Email: lily1992810314@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Murat Hancer Research Topic: Smart tourism |
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Jeremy Fairley Email: Jeremy.Fairley@Knights.UCF.edu Adviser: Dr. Asli Tasci Research Topic: Destination Marketing, Marketing Technology, Meeting Planner Site Selection & MICE |
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Melissa Farboudi Jahromi Email: Melissa_Farboudi@Knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Kevin Murphy Research Topic: Consumer Behavior in Hospitality, Gender Studies in Tourism |
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Cheryl Jones Email: Cheryl.jones@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Sevil Sönmez Research Topic: Poverty Alleviation |
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Trishna Gajjar Email: trishnagajjar@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Fevzi Okumus Research Topic: Strategic management, diversity management, organizational behavior, human resources |
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Diane Graebner Email: dsgraebner@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Kevin Murphy Research Topic: Emotional Intelligence and tourism sales performance |
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Stephen Hight Email: skhight@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Kevin Murphy Research Topic: Entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, restaurant management and operations |
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Jalayer Khalilzadeh Email: jalayer.khalilzadeh@ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Abraham Pizam Research Topic: Imagination, Network Analysis, Destination Management, Information Technology, Neuroeconomics and Neuropsychology applications in Hospitality and Tourism |
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Mohammed Lefrid Email: mlefrid@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Fevzi Okumus Research Topic: Food & Beverage Management and Cross-Cultural HR Management |
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Elaine Mathis Email: ElaineMathis@knights.ucf.edu Advisers: Dr. Mathilda van Niekerk Dr. Fevzi Okumus Research Topic: Scale development of co-creation within the events industry |
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Jill Plumer Email: plumerj@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Denver Severt Research Topic: Revenue Management |
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Craig Rapp Email: Craig.Rapp@Knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Joe C. Hutchinson Research Topic: Coaching, Organizational Behavior, and Human Performance |
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Jennifer Redditt Email: jenredditt@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Alan Fyall Research Topic: Sharing Economy Accommodations: Satisfaction and Intention to Repurchase |
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Scott Richardson Email: scott.richardson@knights.ucf.edu Advisers: Dr. Alan Fyall Dr. Joe Hutchinson Research Topic: Integrated English wine tourism research, marketing strategies |
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Giulio Ronzoni Email: giulio3788@Knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Alan Fyall Research Topic: Guest service and human resources management in lodging industry |
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Saba Salehi-EsFahani Email: ssalehie@Knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Youcheng Wang Research Topic: Customer Emotion and Experience, Social Media, Information Technology |
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Ekaterina Sorkina Email:sorkina@kngihts.ucf.edu Advisor:Dr. Youcheng Wang Research Topic:Smart tourism destinations |
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AJ Templeton Email: atempleton@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Jill Fjelstul Research Topic: A future of sustainability within drive tourism |
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Jessica Wiitala Email: jwiitala@knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Sevil Sönmez Research Topic: Tourism crisis management, crisis communications, attitudes of visitors |
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Motaz Zaitouni Email: motaz@Knights.ucf.edu Adviser: Dr. Kevin Murphy Research Topic: Hospitality management, human resource management, skills & competencies, training & development, green lodging, small hospitality businesses, service recovery, customer service. |
