601-266-6666
chad.r.miller@usm.edu
http://www.usm.edu/dewd
Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship
Chad R. Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Economic Development
Department of Economic and Workforce Development
118 College Drive, #5022
The University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
USA
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CHAD R. MILLER is a Professor of Economic Development in the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) College of Business and Economic Development. He is Graduate Coordinator of the Master of Science of Economic Development program. He works closely with the Trent Lott National Center providing technical expertise to communities and mentoring student community research. He has extensive private and public sector experience including managing shipping and global distribution for American companies based in China and Vietnam. He was also an Army Officer stationed in the Pacific Rim. His research focuses on the relationship between transportation and economic development. Prior to joining USM, he worked for the Virginia Tech Office of Economic Development. Chad has a Ph.D. from the Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration & Policy, an MBA from Boston University, and a BA in Government from the College of William & Mary. Chad, his wife Susan, and son Duncan live in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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don.rahtz@mason.wm.edu
Don R. Rahtz, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
Mason School of Business
Miller Hall 3079
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, 23187
USA
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DON R. RAHTZ is a marketing /marketing communications researcher (Ph.D., Virginia Tech 1984) and a Professor of Marketing at The College of
William and Mary in Virginia. His expertise is in marketing communication programs, marketing research, survey methodology, analysis, and market assessment.
He has had a particular interest in environmental issues, economic sustainable development, business/community interface evaluation, and health systems. He
has traveled extensively in the South and Southeast Asian area with a focus on Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. He has conducted a variety of
workshops and seminars, and acted as a consultant to businesses in both the public and private sectors concerning these topics, both in the United States and
abroad. He recently completed a World Bank funded baseline survey project for the legal system of Bangladesh.
He has been active in promoting the Quality-of-Life field of study in a variety of disciplines. He has published a variety of articles in journals from the
social, behavioral science, communication, and marketing areas. His work as appeared in such publications as: The Journal of Advertising, Journal of Health
Care Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Ambulatory Care Marketing, Psychology and Marketing,
Journal of Business Research, and Social Indicators Research.
He has authored or co-authored a variety of book chapters and conference proceedings papers, and presented numerous papers at professional marketing,
quality of life, and health care conferences. He has acted as a co-editor on the proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth Quality of Life/Marketing Conference
(1992, 1995), the Macromarketing Conference in 2001, and the International Society for Marketing and Development in 2003 among others.
He has served as the Editor of The Marketing Educator and on the Editorial Review Board of The Journal of Health Care Marketing. Presently he serves on the
Editorial Review Board of The Journal of Macromarketing, The Journal of Business Psychology and the new journal, Journal of Quality of Life Research in
Leisure and Tourism. He is a regular reviewer for many of the national conferences and journals in the marketing (e.g., Academy of Marketing Science),
quality of life (e.g., ISQOLS), and health care (e.g. American Association for Advances in Health Care Research) areas.
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+82-2-2123-5471 (phone)
+82-2-364-7828 (fax)
djlee@base.yonsei.ac.kr
Dong-Jin Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
School of Business
134 Shinchon Seodaemun
Yonsei University
Seoul
South Korea
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DONG-JIN LEE is Professor Emeritus at the School of Business, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech (1996) and has published extensively in the area of quality of life studies.
Before joining Yonsei University, he was on the faculty of the University of Western Australia (1996–1999) and the State University of New York at Binghamton (2000–2002). He served as Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice
President for Publication, and Program Area Chair for the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) in 1997–1999, 2007–2009, and 1997–1998 respectively; he was Section Editor of Applied Research in Quality of Life
(ARQOL) from 2009 to 2011; and he was Dean of Sangnam Management Institute at Yonsei University from 2017 to 2018. He won the best paper award from ARQOL in 2021. He is currently a member of Borad of Directors of the Management
Institute for Quality-of-Life Studies (MIQOLS).
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540-831-2585
nreilly@radford.edu
nreilly.asp.radford.edu
Nora Reilly, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
425 Russell Hall, Box 6946
Radford University
Radford, Virginia, 24142
USA
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NORA P. REILLY is an organizational social psychologist (Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1985), Professor of Psychology, and Associate Dean of the College
of Graduate and Professional Studies at Radford University in Virginia, US. She has published in the areas of quality of work life, the behavioral expression
of commitment, perceptions of/reactions to stigmatizing conditions in the workplace and the self-regulation of affect in such outlets as The Journal of
Vocational Behavior, Motivation and Emotion, Journal of Business and Psychology, Applied Research in Quality of Life, and The Academy of Management Journal,
as well as serving on several editorial boards. Her most recent work is a co-edited handbook on Work and Quality of Life: Ethical Practices in Organizations
(Dordrecht, DE: Springer). Her teaching interests range from organizational psychology, applied social psychology, psychometrics, methodology, statistics and
organization development. She has served as the coordinator of the master’s program in industrial and organizational psychology at Radford as well as in numerous
internal governance positions, including president of the faculty senate. She is currently responsible for graduate academic course and program reviews as well
as the administration of graduate assistantships at Radford. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology, where she serves on the Education and Training Committee. Finally, she is an active OD consultant, primarily in the area of healthcare.
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balci@vt.edu
manta.cs.vt.edu/balci
Osman Balci, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
638 McBryde Hall, MC 0106
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061
USA
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OSMAN BALCI is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Mobile/Cloud Software Engineering Lab at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) in 1975 and 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University (New York) in 1978 and 1981.
Dr. Balci has served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: Annals of Software Engineering, 1993-2002 and World Wide Web, 1996-2000. He served as Chair of ACM SIGSIM, 2008-2010;
Director at Large of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), 2002-2006; and Founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGSIM Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Knowledge Repository, 2009-2021.
Dr. Balci received the Virginia Tech 2018 W.S. 'Pete' White Innovation in Engineering Education Award, the 2015 ACM SIGSIM Distinguished Contributions Award, and the 2013 McLeod Founder's Award for Distinguished
Service to the Profession given by SCS. Most of Dr. Balci's work has been funded by the U.S. Navy. From 1998 to 2004, he provided technical services for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency programs in the areas of
M&S acceptability assessment and system independent verification and validation (IV&V). He has also provided technical services for architecting naval surface warfare systems. His current areas of expertise center on
Apple Mobile Software Engineering, Cloud Software Engineering, architecting cloud software-based system of systems, software/system IV&V; Modeling and Simulation (methodology, verification, validation, and certification);
and Digital Game-Based Learning (digital educational game development methodology, digital educational game quality evaluation). His email and web addresses are balci@vt.edu and
https://manta.cs.vt.edu/balci.
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540-231-8426
muysal@isenberg.umass.edu
Muzaffer Uysal, Ph.D.
Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003
USA
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MUZAFFER UYSAL, Ph.D., is a Provost professor and Carney Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management - Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. He maintains an Extraordinary Professor title in the Research Unit: Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, SA. Dr. Uysal has extensive experience
in the tourism and hospitality field, has worked on several funded tourism marketing and management projects, and has conducted workshops and seminars in more than 25 countries. He is a member of the International Academy for
the Study of Tourism, and the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and co-founded Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He has also authored and co-authored a significant number of articles, five monographs, several reports,
and fifteen books, related to tourism and hospitality research methods: tourist service satisfaction, tourism, and quality-of-life, creating experience value in tourism, and scales in tourism and hospitality settings. Dr. Uysal has
received over 30 awards, honors, and recognitions including multiple “Lifetime Achievement” awards and ‘Best Paper’ awards. During 2015 and 2016 alone, he received five such recognitions including the John Wiley & Sons
Lifetime Research Achievement Award (July 2016), Emerald Citations of Excellence for 2016, TAMU-PRTS 2016 Leslie Reid Alumni Award, W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Research Paper of the Year Award 2015, and Founders Award (Graduate
Education and Graduate Student Research Conference in Hospitality & Tourism) 2015. Dr. Uysal is recognized as one of the most influential educators in tourism and hospitality and is among the world’s most highly cited researchers under
the Social Sciences category. His current research interests center on tourism development and quality-of-life research in tourism and hospitality settings.
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mjoshanloo@gmail.com
https://mohsenjoshanloo.weebly.com/
Mohsen Joshanloo
Department of Psychology, Keimyung University
1095 Dalgubeol Boulevard, Dalseo-Gu
Daegu 42601, South Korea
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MOHSEN JOSHANLOO is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Keimyung University and an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Centre for Wellbeing Science, University of Melbourne. He is a personality and cross-cultural psychologist specializing in mental well-being and its links to personality and cultural contexts. His research focuses on well-being, psychosocial functioning, and optimal aging around the world. He is committed to the internationalization of psychological science by incorporating perspectives from non-Western cultures. Mohsen received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in 2013. He is the recipient of the Ruut Veenhoven Award (2019) from the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization, and the Young Scholar Award (2018) from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies.
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