Thomas W. Woolley
Chair, Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis, Professor of Statistics
(205) 726-2042
twwoolle@samford.edu
Room 202 Dwight M. Beeson Hall
M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University
Website: Woolley Web
Dr. Woolley received his Ph.D. (1981) in Statistics and Research Design, M.S. (1977) in Biological Science/Education and B.S. (1976) in the Biological Sciences, all from the Florida State University. Prior to accepting the position of Professor of Statistics in the Brock School of Business, he was Vice Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Biomathematics and Head of Public Health Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center.
In 1992, Dr. Woolley received the UAB President’s Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2001 he received Samford University’s Buchanan Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching. In 2000, he was named the Carnegie Foundation/CASE Alabama Professor of the Year. In January of 2003 Dr. Woolley was named a Templeton Scholar and was among 30 international scholars who he participated in the Templeton Oxford Seminars in Science and Christianity at the University of Oxford (2003 through 2005). Having published more than 70 scientific papers and book chapters, his current research interests include indeterminacy in business, experimental design, applied Bayesian analysis, outlier methodology, theology of chance, and contingency in the theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Dr. Woolley has been married to Mary Lyn for 26 years; they have two children, Drew (20) and McKenzie (15).
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
