Jeffrey Whitworth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Finance,
College of Business
Contact number: 281-283-3218
Email: whitworthj@uhcl.edu
Office: Bayou Building Suite 3121, Room 28
Biography
Dr. Whitworth earned his Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University before joining the finance
faculty at UHCL, where he teaches corporate finance, derivatives, and portfolio management.
His research on ex-dividend stock price behavior and tax-efficient investing has been
published in Financial Management, Real Estate Economics, Managerial Finance, and
the Journal of Financial Planning. He has also assisted in the creation of web-based
algorithmic problems and other supplements for several textbooks and has written articles
for the Journal of Financial Education and the Journal of Instructional Techniques
in Finance.
Dr. Whitworth has served as a director of the Southwestern Finance Association and
is an active member of the Academy of Financial Services and the Financial Education
Association.