UA Professor’s Publications Among Most-Cited Insurance Journal Articles

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Harris Schlesinger, professor of finance and Frank Park Samford Chair of Insurance at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce, is the author or co-author of three of the top 25 most-cited articles in the top three insurance journals during the period 2000-2004.

The listing appears in the Spring 2009 issue of the Risk Management and Insurance Review, a journal of the American Risk & Insurance Association. Articles in which Schlesinger was involved are listed at No. 7, 13 and 17.

Schlesinger is past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association. He has served in the past as the rate-hearings officer in the state of Alabama for insurance rate increases. He has held visiting appointments in Belgium, France and Germany and holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Konstanz (Germany).

He was the founding editor of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory and currently is an associate editor for five academic journals. His research papers have won several awards, and he has received the Minerva award as outstanding alumnus from his undergraduate college. He is a senior research fellow with CESifo, a European-based economic policy organization. He has published articles in more than two dozen journals.

Schlesinger also received UA’s 2007 Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award.

The Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration was established in 1919, and, in 1929, it became the 38th school to earn admission into the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. The excellence of the UA business school has been acknowledged on a national level. The undergraduate program is ranked 29th among public universities by U.S. News, and the Culverhouse School of Accountancy is ranked 15th among public universities by U.S. News. The graduate accounting program is ranked 19th, and the undergraduate program 15th, by Public Accounting Report. The entrepreneurial program is ranked 20th nationally.