Sara Helms
Assistant Professor of Economics
(205) 726-4110
shelms1@samford.edu
Room 309 Dwight M. Beeson Hall
Sara Helms, PhD, joins the Brock School of Business from the University of Alabama at Birmingham as Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis as an Assistant Professor of Economics. She teaches principles of economics, public economic and the MBA economics.
Dr. Helms’s research interests include applied micro-economics and public policy, particularly in the areas of volunteering, charitable giving, education policy and public health policy, using both traditional econometric and experimental methods. She joins two co-authors at Samford, Dr. Thornton and Dr. Woodley. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
She has presented her work at the annual meetings of regional, national and international organizations, including the American Economic Association, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Activity, Economic Science Association, Southern Economic Associatio, and at the Institute for Studies of Labor (IZA) in Germany, and the American Time Use Research conference. Helms is a Research Associate at the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dr. Helms earned her B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, from St. Mary’s College of Maryland (1999), and her M.A (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) in Economics from the University of Maryland. While completing her graduate work at the University of Maryland, she received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (2003), and Teaching Awards from the Department of Economics (2001 and 2002). She taught for one year as a Visiting Instructor at her alma mater, St. Mary’s College, 2005-2006.
Dr. Helms is a member of the honor fraternities Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Epsilon and Omicron Delta Kappa. She was recently named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Faculty & Staff
Administration
- Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Kara Kennedy
Director of External Affairs - Robert Blakely
Advancement Officer - Franz Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management and Marketing - Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - John Knapp
University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and Director, Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - Bruce Nichols
Director, Executive Education - Carrie Anna Pearce
Director, Academic Internship Program - John M. Venable
Assistant Professor of Finance, Director, Bulldog Investment Fund - Ivy Alexander
Department Secretary-Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis - Doshia Bennett
Secretary to the Dean - C. Hope Dahlke
Executive Assistant to the Dean and Chief of Staff - Kathey Gassner
Program Assistant - Undergraduate Programs - Yolanda Long
Assistant to the Associate Dean - Lucy Phillips
Program Assistant - Graduate and Executive Education Programs - Ginger Robertson
Department Secretary - Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management Department - Azalea Hulbert
Department Secretary - Accounting and Management Information Systems - Sherri Brown
Academic Advisor Undergraduate Programs
Department of Accounting & Management Information Sytems
- James P. Reburn
Associate Dean, Professor of Accounting - Lowell S. Broom
Chair, Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems, Professor of Accounting - William H. Belski
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Sharon S. Jackson
Assistant Professor of Business - Cynthia Frownfelter-Lohrke
Professor of Management Information Systems - Dennis W. Price
Assistant Professor of Accounting - Douglas L. Smith
Associate Professor of Accounting
Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
- Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics - Beck A. Taylor
Dean, Professor of Economics - Jennings B. Marshall
Professor of Economics - Jeremy Thornton
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Social Entrepreneurship Program - Melissa Woodley
Assistant Professor of Finance - Sara Helms
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing
- Barbara Cartledge
Director of Undergraduate Programs - Larron C. Harper
Director of Graduate Programs - Franz T. Lohrke
Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management - John M. Venable
Director, The Community Banking School at Samford University and Assistant Professor of Finance - Charles M. (Chad) Carson
Assistant Professor - Betsy Holloway
Associate Professor of Marketing and Hackney Family Research Fellow - Steven T. Jones
Associate Professor of Finance - Archie Lockamy, III
Margaret Gage Bush Professor of Business and Professor of Operations Management - David L. Loudon
Professor of Marketing - Robert W. Service
- Darin White
Professor of Management
- Dr. Marlene M. Reed
