Terry Shevlin
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Terry Shevlin graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in 1975 after living his early years in the western Victorian town of Murtoa. He subsequently graduated Master of Economics from Monash University in 1981 and Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1986 majoring in accounting and finance. After graduating from Stanford he was on the faculty at the University of Washington (1986-2012) and the University of California - Irvine (2012-2023). An extensive research agenda covering taxation and business decisions, capital markets and earnings management has enabled him to attain a unique position in the contemporary academic accounting research community. With 47 authored or co-authored publications in five of the leading accounting research journals – Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research and Review of Accounting Studies – Terry Shevlin is the most published accounting academic over the last thirty years. Terry’s elite stature and reputation as a constructive evaluator of research has led to invitations to be the distinguished speaker at a multitude of conferences around the globe. This extensive and productive research agenda has also enabled him to mentor numerous students and to date he has supervised 28 doctoral candidates, many of whom have themselves gone on to supervise their own students using the rigorous academic standards and creativity focus that have been the hallmarks of his career. Terry is co-author of Taxes and Business Strategy, a book that is transforming the way taxation courses are taught. Many of his papers have won research awards including two Competitive Manuscript Awards from the American Accounting Association (AAA) and four Tax Manuscript Awards from the American Taxation Association (ATA). At both associations he has been awarded Outstanding Educator Awards. In 2005 he received the Ray M. Sommerfield Outstanding Tax Educator Award from the ATA and in 2012 he received the Outstanding Educator Award from the AAA. Terry Shevlin has provided leadership of the academic accounting profession at the highest levels. He has served extensively as co-editor of Accounting Horizons, senior editor of The Accounting Review and editor of the Journal of the American Taxation Association and has been on the editorial boards of a multitude of other scholarly journals. He was President of the AAA in 2019-2020 and Vice President of AAA Research and Publications from 2015 to 2018. At the university level, he has served as PhD Program Director (2002-2006) and Chair of the Accounting Department (2006-2012) at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, and Associate Dean for Research and the PhD Program at the Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine (2016-2021). In 2022 Terry Shevlin was the recipient of a Lifetime Service Award from the American Taxation Association. He is presently Emeritus Professor at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington and Emeritus Distinguished Professor at UC - Irvine.