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Where did you grow up and what is your background? I grew up all over Kentucky but would consider Owensboro and Columbia as my home bases. My dad is a retired United Methodist minister, and my mom is a retired college instructor and advisor.  Service to others and education have always been important values to my family. I graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 2006 with a BS in Psychology and then earned a M.Ed. in Counseling and Human Development from Lindsey Wilson (College) University in 2008. 

Tell us where you are from and how you ended up at the University of Kentucky and Gatton College.

I grew up in London, Kentucky. My family bleeds blue for sure. My father and his brother were both graduates as well as both my brothers. My father loved the University and all it represents. While my brothers and I all spent at least one year at another University, we all longed to return to BBN.

Tell us about where you are from and why you decided to come to UK and Gatton. I played soccer in high school, and we came to UK's soccer camps every summer until it was discontinued. Those camps were the first time I got to experience the campus. It's a beautiful place which was a great start. My parents also attended the university, and I heard great things about Gatton. Being just the right distance from home at 3 hours, it seemed like an obvious choice.

The University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics is welcoming new full-time faculty members whose expertise will strengthen teaching, research and student learning across the college. The 2026 new faculty cohort brings experience from universities, industry, government and global business settings. Their areas of expertise include audit regulation, data analytics, behavioral finance, crypto regulation, corporate finance, organizational behavior, stakeholder engagement, consumer well-being and more.

1. What is your title, and what does that entail?

Borgatti, Gatton Endowed Chair of Management and University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics, has reached 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. The milestone places him among a small group of scholars whose work has become foundational well beyond their home disciplines.

1.    Where did you grow up? I grew up in Houston, TX

1.    Tell us about where you grew up and how you found your way to UK and Gatton College.I was born in Louisville but grew up in Owensboro.  My father's job had the family transfer to Alabama where I attended high school.  Like all true Kentuckians, I started planning my way home the moment we got to Alabama.  Upon graduating high school UK was the only school choice for me.