I am the Truist Chair in Money & Banking, Faculty Fellow of Scholar and Student Success, and Professor of Finance in the Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University. I am also a research associate for the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) program on Knightian Uncertainty Economics (KUE) for financial markets. I have written two scholarly books. The first is titled How Novelty and Narratives Drive the Stock Market: Black Swans, Animal Spirits and Scapegoats (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The sequel is titled Narrative Analytics and Stock Market Forecasting: How Popular Stories Help Inform Investment Strategies (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2025). I have delivered invited lectures on my books for industry symposia in London and New York City. My research has been published in the International Review of Financial Analysis, the Journal of Behavioral Finance, the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Journal of Economics and Finance, the SURE Journal, the Economics Journal, the Journal of Economic Methodology, and Economics Bulletin. My research focuses on testing the implications of macro-finance models based on KUE by investigating the relative roles and dynamics between historically novel events, market fundamentals, psychology, and social context in explaining instability in stock price fluctuations. In 2026 and 2023, I received the J. Daniel Speight Research Award. In 2025 and 2021, I received the M. Albert Burke Banking Endowment Research Award. In 2017, I received the Outstanding Faculty Award. I earned my doctoral degree at the University of New Hampshire in 2011. I also write analytical blog articles on current economic and financial events for INET and have contributed over 50 columns to the Savannah Morning News city paper.