Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Allegheny College, Quigley Hall 207
Meadville, PA 16335
jwaugh@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-3347
Teaching and Research Interests
Professor Waugh graduated from Robert Morris University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting (magna cum laude). She returned to Robert Morris University to earn her Master of Science in Taxation degree in 2010. Her career has included positions at a Big Four accounting firm as well as regional firms plus companies in the private sector. Her teaching career started as an adjunct professor at CCAC teaching Financial Accounting. This experience teaching at the college level propelled her to pursue a PhD in accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She completed her studies and comprehensive examinations in 2020 and is currently working on her dissertation research in the area of fraud and forensic accounting.
She began teaching at Allegheny College as a part time adjunct and became a full time Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Economics in 2019. Her areas of teaching include tax, fraud and business ethics, financial, managerial and cost accounting as well as providing faculty support for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program in Meadville.
She lives in Pittsburgh where her two grown sons and their families also live. She has two Pomeranians and a Yorkie and volunteers with animal rescue organizations as well as a high school scholarship committee in her spare time. When she is not teaching, you can probably find her baking as she is an avid cookie baker and decorator and hosts an annual cookie table party for her neighborhood and friends each December!
Degrees: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PhD, Business with emphasis in Accounting ; Robert Morris University, Masters in Taxation; Robert Morris University, Bachelor’s in Science in Business Administration; University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Associate in Science
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