Thomas Stafford, PhD

Professor and Department Chair

Phone 901.678.4613 Email tstaffor@memphis.edu Office 303 Fogelman Admin Bldg. Office Hours TBD Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Thomas F. Stafford is Chair of the MIS Department, and returns to the Fogelman College after a 9 year hiatus working as the JE Barnes Professor of Information Systems and Doctoral Coordinator at Louisiana Tech. Stafford is terminally degree in both Marketing (Georgia) and Management Information Systems (Texas – Arlington), and has spent a considerable amount of time in his career as Editor in Chief for leading journals including The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and Decision Sciences. He has also edited a baker’s dozen of journal special issue with venues such as MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions. Stafford is a research expert in measure validation and the qualitative method of Grounded Theory.