Ryan Seay

Biography

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• PhD – University of Mississippi, Accounting
• MPAcc – Murray State University
• BAB – Murray State University, Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor – Accounting, Mississippi State University
• Visiting Assistant Professor – Accounting, Texas Tech University
• PhD Student Instructor – Accounting, University of Mississippi
• Senior Accountant – Diversified Specialty Institutes, Inc.
• Audit Senior – Ernst & Young, LLP

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Howard, M., Seay, R.and Seay, R. (2019). Experimental Evidence on the Efficacy of Current Approaches to Increase Use Tax Compliance. Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research, 22, 21-41.

SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS

• Don & Peggy Whitmire Fellowship Recipient (2017-2019), Mississippi State University
• AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium Fellow (2013), University of Mississippi
• Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award (2012), University of Mississippi
• Outstanding Doctoral Student in Accountancy (2012), University of Mississippi

BIOGRAPHY 
Dr. Ryan Seay is an Assistant Professor of Accounting in the Jack C. Massey College of Business at Belmont University.  He joined Belmont in August 2019 after serving for four years as an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University and one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.  Ryan received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Mississippi, where he received the Patterson School of Accountancy Doctoral Student Teaching Award.  He also holds a Master of Professional Accountancy and a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Murray State University. 

Prior to his doctoral studies, Ryan worked in Nashville as an auditor for Ernst & Young and as an accountant for Diversified Specialty Institutes.  He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) in the state of Tennessee.  Ryan’s primary research interests involve accounting issues within the healthcare industry.