Advisory Committee Members
Dr. Fawn Ngo is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She received her doctoral degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. Her research examines the efficacy of mainstream criminological theories in accounting for crime and victimization among other areas.
Dr. Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil is Assistant Professor (lecturer) in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Jamaica. She received her doctoral degree in Statistics from Purdue University. Dr. Dixon Hamil is an applied statistician and interdisciplinary researcher. Her main research area is spatial statistics.
Dr. Stephen Pratt is Professor in the School of Tourism & Hospitality Management at The University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He received his doctoral degree in Business Management from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom; however his doctoral thesis was in the area of Tourism Economics. Dr. Pratt’s research areas include sustainable tourism development (economic, sociocultural and environmental impacts of tourism), tourism in small island states and tourist behavior.
Dr. Annmarie Nicely is associate professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University. She received her doctoral degree in Human Environmental Sciences from Oklahoma State University where she was a student in the Department of Hotel & Restaurant Administration. In her doctoral thesis she examined learning in hotels. Her research area is human performance in hospitality business and tourism communities. She is the lead researcher in the Visitor Harassment Research Unit at Purdue.
