Terry Shevlin

Terry Shevlin holds the Paul Pigott-PACCAR Professorship in Business Administration at the University of Washington Foster School of Business.  He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986.  He teaches financial accounting at the undergraduate level, taxation at the graduate level, and financial accounting and tax research at the Ph.D. level.  His research interests include earnings management, capital markets, employee stock options, and the role of taxes in business decisions.  He has published in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of the American Taxation Association.  He has won the AAA Manuscript Award twice and the ATA Tax Manuscript Award three times.  He was the recipient of the 2005 American Taxation Association Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award. He has presented several times at the AAA Doctoral Consortium, the Pac 10 Doctoral Consortium and the Big 10 Doctorial Consortium.  He has served on several AAA Committees including the Doctoral Consortium Committee, the Selection Committees of the AAA Notable Contribution Award and the D&T Wildman Award.  He was editor of the Journal of the American Taxation Association 1996-1999 and was the senior editor of The Accounting Review 2002-2005 and has served or serves on the editorial boards of numerous accounting journals.  He served as the Faculty Director of the PhD Program at the UW Foster School of Business 1999-2006 and is currently the chair of the accounting department.  He is the 2007-08 President of the American Taxation Association.