Sheryl Kline and Muzzo Uysal have joined the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management.

Kline will serve as interim dean of the College. She comes to the University from Purdue University, where she was the C.B. Smith Professor of Hotel Management and director of the Center for the Study of Lodging Operations. She also has a strong record of research in the area of hotel operation and management. Her most recent research has included the impact of technology on lodging management and crisis management. Kline has authored or co-authored numerous refereed journal articles, two textbooks, one book, and eight book chapters, and she has presented at more than 30 national and international conferences. Her textbook, Hotel Front Office Simulations, is used by more than 50 colleges and universities.

Kline is the recipient of several international teaching awards, including the John Wiley & Sons Award for Innovation in Teaching given by the International Council of Hotel, Restaurant, Institutional Educators. Kline has a Ph.D. in psychological studies in education from Temple University, an M.S. in hotel administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a B.A. in economics and English from Rutgers University.

Uysal joins the College as associate dean of research and graduate studies, as well as professor. Before joining USC, Uysal was a faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for 15 years, and at Clemson University for five years. He has extensive experience in the travel and tourism field and has authored or co-authored a significant number of articles in tourism, hospitality, and recreation journals, proceedings, several book chapters, four monographs, and one book relating to different aspects of tourism marketing, demand/supply interaction, and international tourism. He is a member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and the Academy of Leisure Sciences, and he served as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Journal. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of eight journals.

Uysal has received many research, service, and teaching awards. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, tourism development and marketing, and international tourism. He has a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, an MBA from the University of New Haven, and a BS from Ankara Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences.

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