College of Business

Education

• Ph.D. Finance, University of Tennessee
• MBA University of Missouri
• BS Nuclear Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Professional Summary

Dr. Craig is a Professor of Finance at Eastern Michigan University.  She earned her B.S. in nuclear engineering at Penn State and worked for over 15 years in the nuclear industry before earning her PhD in Finance from the University of Tennessee.  She uses her extensive corporate experience to strengthen her teaching in the classroom.  She has taught a variety of courses such as Corporate Finance (at the Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels), Fixed Income, and Financial Markets and Institutions. 

Courses Taught

• FIN 350 Principles of Finance
• FIN 357 Financial Markets and Institutions
• FIN 358 Financial Statement Analysis
• FIN 359 Intermediate Financial Theory
• FIN 450W Problems in Financial Management
• FIN 455 Fixed Income
• FIN 499 Independent Study
• FIN 615 Financial Markets and Institutions
• FIN 660 Strategic Financial Management
• FIN 661 Advanced Financial Management

Research Interests & Projects

Dr. Craig's primary research interests include behavioral finance, fixed income and banking. 

Selected Publications

• "Active Attention, Retail Investor Base, and Stock Returns", 2023, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol. 39, with Z. Chen.
• "Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry in the Crash of the Energy Market", 2020, Energy Economics, with Z. Chen.
• "Political sensitivity and government oversight in the US corporate bond market: evidence from federal contractors", 2020, Corporate Governance, Vol. 20 No. 7, with B. Hadley
• “The January Sentiment Effect in the U.S. Corporate Bond Market”, 2018, Review of Behavioral Finance, 10 (4), with Z. Chen.

Professional Affiliations

• Financial Management Association
  • FMA Student Chapters Committee Chair and FMA Board of Directors member
• Eastern Finance Association
• Southern Finance Association
• Beta Gamma Sigma