Dr. Shelley Rhoades-Catanach is a CPA and an associate professor of accountancy at Villanova University. She teaches a variety of tax courses in Villanova’s undergraduate, graduate and masters of accounting and tax programs. Before joining the Villanova faculty in 1998, Shelley spent 4 years on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. She has also served as a visiting faculty member at the Darden Graduate School, University of Virginia, and at INSEAD, an international MBA program in Fontaine bleau, France. She received her bachelors in accounting from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Rhoades-Catanach has published numerous articles in many journals, including the Journal of Accounting Education, Accounting Review, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of the American Taxation Association, and Review of Accounting Studies. Shelley has served as vice president, president, and trustee of the American Taxation Association and on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Taxation Association and the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation. She currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation.

Dr. Shelley is the 2010 recipient of the Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator Award.