Ted Rogers School welcomes 21 new faculty members

August 26, 2020

The Ted Rogers School of Management is expanding its knowledge, research and teaching strength by welcoming 21 new faculty members to the business school in the 2020-21 school year in a range of academic disciplines.

"We are bold, ambitious and determined to rise at lightning speed. Hiring 21 new professors this pandemic year is a signal that the Ted Rogers School can deliver incredible results," said Dean Daphne Taras. "It is a tribute to the hard work of all our team, and a signal of our strong reputation, that we have attracted this high calibre of professors."

Here is a look at just a few of the recent additions to our school:

Dr. Nukhet Taylor, Assistant Professor – Marketing Management

The Ted Rogers School has hired five professors in Marketing Management who will be starting this Fall, including Dr. Nukhet Taylor.

Dr. Taylor received her PhD in Marketing from York University’s Schulich School of Business earlier this year. Her research focuses on how marketers can facilitate consumption practices that elevate consumer well-being.

A common area Dr. Taylor explores is the marketing of food items, in which she pinpoints how consumers can sometimes be nudged towards overconsumption, and what marketers can do to help reduce this tendency. Her focus into consumer well-being also extends to how marketers can help consumers adopt innovative products that offer critical benefits, and how digital marketing can be leveraged to increase consumer interest in safety products.

Dr. Taylor’s work has implications for public policy makers, businesses and marketing professionals who try to practice consumer-centered, and responsible, marketing practices.

Dr. Michael Baumtrog, Assistant Professor – Law & Business

Dr. Michael Baumtrog is one of two new tenure-track Business Ethics professors added to the Ted Rogers School this year. He had been a limited-term faculty member at the school for three years.

Dr. Baumtrog completed his PhD in philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal in 2015, with a specialization in reasoning and ethics. His undergraduate and master’s degrees were completed at the University of Windsor.

His current philosophical interest pertain the moral and epistemological status of children in both the social and working worlds, as well as the normative and descriptive construction of argumentation schemes (patterns of reasoning). He works to use both areas of study
to make practical improvements in the real world.

Dr. Baumtrog joins Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi, who was also hired this year, Dr Hasko von Kriegstein and Dr. Chris MacDonald to round out the ethics team within Ted Rogers School’s Department of Law & Business. We now have one of the highest numbers of Business Ethics professors of any business school.

“These additions give the Ted Rogers School one of the strongest philosophically-driven ethics teams of any business school in North America, and puts us among the leading schools in Canada on issues of ethics and corporate social responsibility,” says Dr. MacDonald.

Dr. Wayne Smith, Professor – Hospitality and Tourism Management

Dr. Wayne Smith has over 20 years of tourism experience working with tour operators, destination management companies, accommodation facilities, festivals and non-profit organizations, and still works actively with industry in his role as a consultant to help the tourism industry achieve increased profitability.

Before joining the Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism, Dr. Smith was a Department Chair and Professor at the College of Charleston for 14 years. He holds a PhD from the Wilfrid Laurier University and a master’s degree from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Smith has a long history of impactful research and has published extensively in the hospitality and tourism field. His recent research examines consumer behaviour related to festivals, marketing and tourist motivations, while his previous research focused on politics and tourism.

Here are the other new faculty members who will be joining the Ted Rogers School this year: