The Terry College of Business presented its annual awards for outstanding teaching, research and service to four faculty members in December. The award winners were chosen based on nominations by their peers.
Marie-Claude Boudreau, a professor of management information systems, received the Faculty Service Award.
A faculty member since 2001, Boudreau served as MIS department head from 2012 to 2023, and her service to the department consistently exceeded expectations. MIS has been a nexus of new program activity at the college. Boudreau directed the college’s FinTech Certificate program in its early years and helped establish the Area of Emphasis in Data Analytics and Information Security Management.
Her longtime commitment to sustainability is widely seen in her teaching, research, faculty-led study away programs and her service on the board of UGA’s Sustainability Certificate. She was recently elected vice president of conferences for the Association for Information Systems, the flagship professional organization for MIS, where she’s helping guide forthcoming information systems research and bringing visibility to Terry’s leadership in MIS.
Brantly Callaway, the P. George Benson Professor in the John Munro Godfrey, Sr. Department of Economics, received the Research Excellence Award. The award recognizes tenure-track faculty for superior research conducted or published in the last five years.
Since joining the UGA faculty in 2020, Callaway has published 10 papers at some of the top journals in the field of economics. Four of his papers appeared in the Journal of Econometrics, which is a leading outlet for papers that develop and apply new empirical techniques. His expertise on “causal inference with panel data” is already renowned among economists, and he is considered to be at the forefront in revolutionizing a new econometric method, known as “difference-in-differences.”
Callaway has accumulated over 12,000 Google Scholar citations, including nearly 5,000 research citations in 2025 alone. In a ranking of research impact, he is one of the highest ranked economists globally who completed their PhDs since 2016.
Ted Christensen, who holds a Terry Distinguished Chair of Business Administration in the J.M. Tull School of Accounting, received the Distinguished Research Award. The award is given to tenure-track faculty for research that displays a history of excellence, longevity and impact within its field.
Christensen is considered one of the world’s premier experts in the area of voluntary disclosure in capital markets and non-GAAP reporting. During his 30-year career, his research productivity has been among the highest of the accounting faculty. Based on the top six accounting journals, he ranks seventh in the world for financial archival research productivity since 2018.
He’s also considered an outstanding mentor, having served on 15 doctoral committees and co-authored with 36 PhD students. In addition, he has co-authored papers with 21 other junior faculty members who were never his PhD students. Christensen served as director of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting for a decade, ending in 2024.
Johannes Kohler, a senior lecturer who joined the Finance Department in 2018, received the Instructional Excellence Award.
Kohler teaches five different courses related to investments, derivatives and investment management, earning exemplary teaching evaluations. Along with a PhD in finance, Kohler brings relevant experience as a former managing director at an investment bank to the classroom and as faculty advisor to the college’s Student Managed Investment Fund.
Since 2022, Kohler has co-advised the Corsair Society with the Morehead Honors College. Corsair prepares the best and brightest Honors and finance students to interview successfully for investment banking, management consulting, and FinTech positions at the most competitive firms.
