Faculty

Cassie Creighton is an associate professor of accounting and chair of the Business and Economics Division.  Her teaching responsibilities have included courses in Principles of Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Income Tax, Cost Accounting, Accounting Theory, Auditing, Business Law, Advanced Accounting, Non-Profit/Governmental Accounting, CPA Problems, American Economic Life, and Principles of Economics. Cassie earned her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Lyon College and her MBA from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and she is also a Certified Public Accountant. Garry Wann is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration. Professor Wann has a BS in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.  He also holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law. Before coming to Lyon, Professor Wann served as a telecommunications consultant to SBC communications.  His teaching responsibilities include Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, and Business Law.   Alan H. McNamee is the Frank and Marion Bradley Lyon Professor of Accounting at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. Professor McNamee's teaching responsibilities include Principles of Accounting, Accounting Systems, Managerial Accounting, Cost Management and Auditing. Dr. McNamee earned his Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics at Manchester College. He was employed in the public accounting profession for eight years in Indiana and Virginia, specializing in the financial services and healthcare industries. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill where his dissertation research examined the relationship between performance evaluation criteria choices and business unit performance. Mahbubul Kabir is an Associate Professor of Economics. He teaches courses in Principles of Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Finance, International Economics, Managerial Economics, Environmental Economics, Business Statistics, and Economics of Policy Issues. Dr. Kabir received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, M.A. in Development Economics from Williams College, Massachusetts; M.B.A. from Dhaka University, Bangladesh; and B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). In his research he focuses on local public finance, particularly on the application of stochastic cost/production frontier estimation to understand efficiency and equity in public education. His research interest includes examination of efficiency gains in vertically integrated hog production and the efficiency effect of import penetration on the U.S. manufacturing. Prior to joining Lyon College Dr. Kabir taught in Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. Frank L. Winfrey is the Clark N. and Mary Perkins Barton Professor of Management. His teaching responsibilities have included courses in strategic management, organizational theory, strategy implementation, marketing, statistics, operations management, corporate social responsibility, and international management at the undergraduate, master, executive, and doctoral levels. Frank earned his Bachelor of Arts as a zoology major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.B.A. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in business policy and strategic management from the College of Business at the University of South Carolina.