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Joe is a Lecturer in the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business & Economics Department of Management. Previous academic experience included eight years as a Teaching & Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught classes and did research and published on topics related to organizations, occupations and work. While there he ran a 200 student undergraduate major called Management & Society for three years, earned his Masters of Arts in Sociology, and completed all pre dissertation requirements for his doctorate (ABD). He also has a Masters in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Bachelors of Arts with majors in Government & International Studies and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame, where he also had a concentration in Latin American Studies, graduated With Honors and won The Helen Kellogg Institute for Latin American Studies First Prize.
In addition to his academic experience, Joe had a 30 plus year career in human resources management, most recently as the Chief Human Resources Officer at Sazerac for five years. This was his second time as a Chief Human Resources Officer, his first one being with Michael Baker International. Prior to his CHRO roles, Joe had a progressive human resources career at large publicly traded companies, including Danaher, Marsh & McLennan, Cardinal Health, Citibank, PepsiCo and General Electric, where he was on their Human Resources Management Program. Between his undergraduate and first graduate studies, Joe was an Airborne qualified Infantry Officer in the United States Army, where he achieved the rank of Captain.
Joe has taught classes on Talent Management, Negotiations, Labor Force, Organizational Theory, Social Relations in the Workplace, Family & Society, Precarious Work in Asia, Collective Bargaining and Labor History. He is also a member of the Academy of Management, American Sociological Society, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society and the Society for Human Resources Management.
Joe and his wife, Carmen, live in Goshen, Ky. They have a son, Brian, who is an active duty Ranger and Airborne qualified Infantry Officer and a daughter, Catherine, who is a student at the University of Kentucky School of Design.
