James W. Wansley
Professor, Clayton Homes Chair of Excellence in Finance, and Department Head
428 Stokely Management Center
Department of Finance
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Voice: (865) 974-1724
Fax: (865) 974-1716
E-mail: jwansley@utk.edu
VITA
Dr. James W. Wansley is the head of the Department of Finance at the University of Tennessee, and the Clayton Homes Chair of Excellence in Finance. He is the former director of the Financial Institutions Center at The University of Tennessee, and previously served on the finance faculty at Louisiana State University. Professor Wansley earned his B.A. from Emory University, his M.B.A. from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is the author of more than two dozen publications and research papers that have appeared in journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Financial Management, The Financial Review, Journal of Financial Research, and the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. His research has focused on the market for corporate control, especially the method of payment used in acquisitions, corporate financial policies, and bank capital issues.
Dr. Wansley has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Research, The Financial Review and the Journal of Financial Research, as well as the FMA’s Survey and Synthesis series. He is currently a trustee of the Eastern Finance Association and has served formerly as President and Vice President of the Eastern Finance Association; President, Vice President and member of the executive board of the Southern Finance Association; and President and Vice President of the Financial Management Association.
He teaches regularly at the Graduate School of Banking of the South, the Mississippi Banking School and the Southeastern School of Banking. He has been a finalist for the Ross Outstanding Teaching Award presented by the College of Business for senior faculty. In 1994, he was the recipient of the Hoechst-Celanese Award for Research and Teaching; in 1999, he received the Bank of America Faculty Leader Medal Award in the College of Business; in 2007, he received the Aerospace Executive MBA program Outstanding Faculty Award; and in 2009, he received the Richard D. Sanders Award for Leadership in Executive Education. He has worked with bank holding companies in the area of compliance and investment policies, and is a member of the board of directors of BankEast, and Vinyl Corners, Inc. Dr. Wansley holds the Chartered Financial Analysts designation and is the founding President of the Knoxville chapter of Chartered Financial Analysts.