Editorial Board Member: Journal of Business Venturing
Ad-hoc Reviewer: Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, MIS Quarterly.
Chair (with Christian Lechner): Professional Development Workshop titled “Modeling the Emergence of Outliers in Entrepreneurship: Theory, Mechanisms, and Methods” in 2018 Academy of Management Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA.
Nominated for Emergent Scholar Award, Entrepreneurship Division, 2018 Academy of Management Meeting by Per Davidsson, Queensland University of Technology, January, 2018.
Nominated for Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship ($35,000) by Martin Ganco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January, 2018.
Nominated for Ascendant Scholar Award, 2018 Western Academy of Management Conference by Luke Pittaway, Ohio University, January, 2018.
Honoree, 2017 Ohio University Faculty Newsmakers Gala, October, 2017.
Nominated for Ohio University Presidential Teaching Award, September, 2017.
Dissertation Committee Member: Avi Turetsky, Ph.D. Candidate, Case Western University with dissertation titled, “When Heads and Tails Matter: Intra-Industry Performance Distributions and their Management Implications.”
Nominated for Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship ($35,000) by Jay B. Barney, University of Utah, February, 2017.
Submitted $205,000 grant proposal to National Science Foundation (#1734567) for: “Modeling the Emergence of Outliers in Entrepreneurship.” February, 2017.
Submitted $10,000 grant proposal to Batten Institute Fellowship. February, 2017
Received College of Business 2016 & 2017 Faculty Excellence in Intellectual Contribution Award.
Awarded Copeland Research Fellowship: $5,000 summer support and $1,500 research honorarium for two years, August, 2015.
Chair of Professional Development Workshop at Academy of Management Meeting: “Using Simulation Experiments to Build and Test Entrepreneurship Theories” in Vancouver, BC, 2015; Orlando, FL, 2013; Boston, MA, 2012; Montreal, Canada, 2010; and Co-chair [with J. Mueller] in San Antonio, TX, 2011.
Received Research Seed Grant: $3,000. OU Intellectual Contribution Committee, 2015 & 2016.
Recipient of John Richard Binford Memorial Award for leadership and scholarship in the domain of entrepreneurship. Carried banner for School of Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies at University of Louisville graduation commencement and received $250.
Awarded Graduate Dean’s Citation for significant Ph.D. student accomplishments (University of Louisville, December, 2013)
Voted Outstanding Reviewer, Entrepreneurship track, Western Academy of Management (2014)
Featured in Louisville’s Student Spotlight for Outstanding Graduate Achievement (2013)
The Kauffman Foundation. Awarded research grant [with J. Mueller #20090582; $12,000], 2009-2011. Developed wiki for dissemination of Kauffman Firm Survey to field. Named Kauffman Emerging Scholar
Selected participant to Doctoral Consortium (2012) Western Academy of Management Conference, San Diego, CA and (2011) Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX
Session Chair & Discussant (2011): Academy of Management Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Session Chair & Paper Discussant (2011, 2012, 2015): Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference
Paper Reviewer (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016) Academy of Management Meeting
Conference Reviewer (2015, 2016, 2017) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference