Business Administration
and Economics Faculty
Annette Citzler, professor; bachelor of arts from Texas Lutheran University; master of arts from The University of Texas at Austin; doctorate from Texas A&M University.
Dr. Citzler spent a recent year-long sabbatical studying graduate finance at the University of Texas at San Antonio and now teaches finance courses, after two decades of teaching economics at TLU.
She chairs the Board of Directors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Publishing Ministry, Augsburg Fortress Publishers. Her primary interests are in the areas of women and finance, ethics, the relationship between access to capital and community economic development, the financing of health care, and international business.
Dr. Citzler has led student exchange groups in Mexico, in Liberia (West Africa), and in Germany and chairs the TLU International Education Committee.
Sally Cook, associate professor, Leif Johnson Professorship in Business Administration; bachelor of business administration and master of taxation from The University of Texas at San Antonio; doctorate of law from The University of Texas Law School; certified public accountant, state of Texas.
Dr. Cook recently spent a semester as an Academic in Residence at The Hanke Group, a CPA firm in San Antonio. She has more than 14 years of business experience, including positions as senior vice president, controller, and chief financial officer at two large financial institutions. In addition to teaching, she is a practicing attorney. Her teaching interests are in business law, corporate taxation and accounting theory.
Justin M. Dubas, assistant professor of economics; BS in BA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Economics and Finance, 1999; M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from University of Notre Dame, 2005.
Dr. Dubas came to TLU from St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI. He loves the liberal arts environment where he can form mentoring relationships with students and engage in collaboration with student. He also enjoys being able to engage in creative pedagogy to enhance student learning, an opportunity encouraged and nurtured at TLU.
His research is in the area of exchange rate economics, exploring how developing countries can use exchange rate policy to influence economic development. Other areas of interest include the design of the international financial architecture, political economy. He uses a variety of approaches in his study of economics, believing that a pluralistic economics results in a deeper, more nuanced, more realistic view of economic processes.
Robert D Galloway, BS, MHA, Ph.D.BS, Midwestern State University, 1968; MHA, Baylor University, 1979; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985.
Dr. Galloway served 21 years in the United States Army as both an Armor Officer and a Medical Services Corp Officer, retiring as a Colonel. In 1989 he left the military to pursue a second career as an academic. For the next 13 years, He was a Professor of Business and for most of that time Department Chairman at The University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. In 2002 he was recruited and became a Professor of Health Care Administration at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In 2006, Dr. Galloway retired from teaching to pursue his love of raising horses. In 2007, Dr. Galloway realized how much he missed interacting with students and joined the business faculty at Texas Lutheran University. Dr. Galloway also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Guadalupe Regional Medical Center and is a member of the Alamo Area Council of Governments and the State Highway 130 Advisory Commission. Ronald O. Huntsman, associate professor; chair, department of business administration; Elton Bohmann Professorship of Business Administration in Accounting; bachelor of science from The University of Utah; master of business administration from Michigan State University; certified public accountant, state of Texas; certified internal auditor.
Professor Huntsman has more than 28 years of business experience, including positions as vice president, chief financial officer, controller, and audit manager for New York Stock Exchange companies and the federal government.
He loves the small-college atmosphere at TLU where he can offer learning experiences not available at large schools.
Alicia Olson, associate professor, bachelor of science and master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University in Shreveport; doctorate from The University of North Texas.
Dr. Olson has recently joined the faculty of TLU after twenty years of teaching marketing, entrepreneurship and business communication. Her areas of academic interest include global marketing and brand management. She has recently accompanied students on study programs to Spain and Romania. In addition, she actively consults in the area of marketing research.
Melanie Thompson, associate professor of business administration; bachelor of business administration from Corpus Christi State University; master of business administration from Texas A & M University at Corpus Christi; certified public accountant, State of Texas. Prof. Thompson taught part-time at Texas Lutheran University in 2002-2003 and joins the faculty full-time in the fall of 2003.
Prof. Thompson joined TLU with over 20 years public accounting experience as a partner in both local and international accounting firms. She was appointed by the governor as Presiding Officer of the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy in 2005. Her real world experience and involvement in the accounting profession enhances the learning environment for TLU students.
