Christian Schaupp, Ph.D.

Expertise

Dr. Christian Schaupp is currently a Professor of Accounting and the Coordinator of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Programs in the Chambers College of Business & Economics at West Virginia University. Dr. Schaupp is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and his primary research interests include information technology adoption, digital government, privacy, and fake news. He has published in several top-tier journals including Communications of the ACM, Government Information Quarterly, Information Systems Frontiers, the Journal of Computer Information Systems, and the Journal of Information Systems. He has also presented at several international conferences and is currently serving as a co-chair of the digital government track at the Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS).

Dr. Schaupp is a 2023-25 Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Applied (IDEA) Faculty Fellow, a multi-disciplinary initiative to bolster entrepreneurship and innovation. In addition, Dr. Schaupp is a 2023-24 Cloud Analytics Faculty Fellow where he will infuse data and analytics tools to innovate his current class offerings, enhancing student skills?in data mining, problem solving, critical thinking, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Schaupp possesses a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from West Virginia University, a master’s degree in Accounting and Information Systems from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a major in Accounting and Information Systems from Virginia Tech.

Education

• Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2005
• M.S., Virginia Tech
• B.S., West Virginia University