Hotel and Restaurant Management Faculty

Name &Title

Credentials

Focus

At NAU

Mateo Casado-Baena, Ed.D., Professor

(B.A., Metropolitan State College; M.A., Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1991)

Hospitality operations, international tourism, higher education curriculum

NAU 1988

Galen R. Collins, Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of School of Hotel and Restaurant

Management

(B.B.A., M.S., Florida International University; Ed.S., Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University 2002)

Hospitality information technology, cost control, property operations

NAU 1987

Ronald A. Evans, B.S., Professor

(B.S., Arizona State University 1963)

Business policy, business development, management, travel and tourism

NAU 1998

Jonathan A. Hales, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., University of Utah; M.B.A., Arizona State University; M.Ed., Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 2000)

Cultural diversity, total quality management, finance, resorts

NAU 1995

Frances A. Hill, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Mundelein College; M.A., Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1995)

Hospitality leadership, communications, marketing and public relations

NAU 1992

Lenka M. Hospodka, M.B.A., Lecturer

(B.S., Cornell University; M.B.A., New York University 1978)

Hospitality information technology, guest service management, convention and group planning

NAU 1987

Richard M. Howey, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., University of Kansas; B.A., M.B.A., Washington State University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 1993)

Marketing, market research, statistical analysis

NAU 1991

Christine Jaszay, Ph.D., Professor

(B.A., California State University–Sacramento; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University 1992)

Curriculum design, food service management, human resource management, ethics

NAU 1992

Claudia A. Jurowski, Ph.D., Professor

(B.S.Ed., Bowling Green State University; M.A., Miami University; M.B.A., Oklahoma City University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1994)

Tourism industry management

NAU 1997

Richard G. McNeill, Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., Arizona State University; M.I.M., American Graduate School of International Management; Ed.D., Arizona State University 1997)

Hotel sales and marketing, international business

NAU 1989

John L. Myers, Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., M.B.A., Ed.D., Arizona State University 1970)

Management, leadership, entrepreneurship, human resource management

NAU 1990

Wallace Rande, Ed.D., Associate Professor

(B.A., Michigan State University; M.B.A., University of Rhode Island; Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1995)

Food service management, beverage management, bar operations, contract service management, customer services, wine

NAU 1990

Allen Z. Reich, Ph.D., Associate Professor

(B.B.A., Southwest Texas State University; M.H.M., University of Houston; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2002)

Marketing, food-service management, strategic planning, restaurant and hotel feasibility studies, human resource management

NAU 1998

Armando Trujillo, M.Ed.,Lecturer

(B.A., M.Ed., University of Arizona 1989)

 Bilingual Multicultural education, Restaurant Management,

Cost Control management

NAU 1994

Bruce Urdang, J.D., Professor

(B.A., State University of New York; J.D., St. John’s University School of Law 1984)

Hospitality law and litigation, real estate law, bankruptcy law

NAU 1989

Gary K. Vallen, Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., University of Nevada–Las Vegas; M.B.A., University of Nevada–Reno; Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 1991)

Guest comment cards and analyses, festival and event survey analyses, casino and Native American gaming, feasibility studies

NAU 1988

Paul J. Wiener, Ed.D., Assistant Professor

(B.A., Claremont Men’s College; B.S., University of Nevada–Las Vegas; M.B.A., Harvard Business School; Ed.D., Northern Arizona University 2002)

Feasibility studies, economic impact analysis, mixed-use development, asset management, debt restructuring and workouts

NAU 1992

Faculty Emeriti

William E. Miller, Ed.D., Professor

(B.S., University of Nebraska; M.A., Ed.D., Arizona State University 1975)

Applied ethics

NAU 1982 (retired 1999)

Peter VanKleek, B.S., Professor

(B.S., Cornell University; Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Schiller International University)

NAU 1986 (retired 1992)