PhD in Entrepreneurship Current Students

The UofL Entrepreneurship PhD program trains the next generation of entrepreneurship scholars and educators, preparing them for faculty positions at leading business schools worldwide.

2024 Cohort

  • Jackson Akor
  • Bereket Buli
  • Nicholas Gibben
  • David Sharma
  • John Trimble

2022 Cohort

  • John Aiyede
  • Kai Cher Tay

2020 Cohort

  • Michael Araki
  • Juliana Binhote
  • Sadek Showkat

Recent Placements

  • Michael Araki – University of New South Wales
  • Sadek Showkat – Loyola University Chicago
  • Juliana Binhote – Florida State University
  • Lauren Atkinson Zettel – Central Michigan University
  • Kirsten Bullock – Valparaiso University
  • Malcolm Muhammad – Georgia State University

Academic positions held by our alumni:

Alireza Aghaey – The University of Central Oklahoma
Cole Crider – University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Yuhan Hua – Milikin University
Mahshid Jessri – California State University, Los Angeles
Vasiliki Kosmidou – University of New Haven
Shankar Naskar – The University of Virgina at Wise
Michael Crum – Assistant Professor, University of  Northern Michigan
Rodney D’Souza – Associate Professor, Northern Kentucky University
Bill Meek – Associate Professor, University of Dayton
Cheryl Mitteness – Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Pankaj Patel – Endowed Chairholder in Innovation and Associate Professor, Villanova University
Rob Sinclair – Associate Professor, Governors State University
Qian Ye – Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin – Parkside
Tom Nelson – Director, Melton Center for Entrepreneurship and Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama
Krishna Poudel – Assistant Professor, Southern University
Chris Crawford –  Assistant Professor, Ohio University
Tae Jun Bae – Assistant Professor, Hofstra University
Jason D’Mello –  Assistant Professor, Loyola-Marymount University
Trayan Kushev – Assistant Professor, Cal Poly Pomona University
E. Shaunn Mattingly – Assistant Professor, Boise State University
Dalong Ma – Assistant Professor,  Missouri Western State University
Shanshan Qian – Assistant Professor, Towson State University
John Mueller – Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno