Terry Shevlin

Terry Shevlin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of accounting at UCI Paul Merage School of Business.

After earning his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986, Professor Shevlin served on the University of Washington faculty for over 25 years before joining the University of California, Irvine in 2012, where he remained until his retirement as a UCI Distinguished Professor in 2023. He was inducted in the American Accounting Association’s Accounting Hall of Fame in 2025 and the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame in 2024.

Professor Shevlin was President of the American Accounting Association 2019–2020, AAA President-Elect 2018–1019, AAA Vice President-Research and Publications 2015–2018, and chaired the AAA Publications Committee 2013–2016. He has served as editor on three academic journals: Journal of the American Taxation Association (1996-1999), Senior Editor, The Accounting Review (2002-2005) and Co-editor, Accounting Horizons (2009-2012), and on numerous editorial boards (including the top four accounting journals). He has published 100 manuscripts and three discussions, with over 60 of these appearing in top-tier accounting journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Review of Accounting Studies.

Professor Shevlin served as Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs at the Merage School of Business at UCI. He held the Paul Merage Chair in Business Growth at UCI. He held the Paul Pigott/ Paccar Professor of Business Administration from 2004–2012 at Washington. While at Washington, he held various administrative positions, including faculty director of the PhD Program 1998–2006 and Accounting Department Chair from 2006–2012.

Professor Shevlin has been a dedicated mentor, shaping the careers of future accounting scholars. He has chaired 28 doctoral dissertations and served on 32 other Ph.D. committees. His mentees have secured and retained positions at top academic institutions worldwide. His academic descendants have collectively published nearly 400 papers, received over 68,000 citations, and taught accounting to more than 100,000 students globally. Professor Shevlin has received a number of awards for his research and mentoring of PhDs. In addition to his Hall of Fame inductions, he was named the American Accounting Association Outstanding Educator for 2012; the American Taxation Association 2005 Ray M. Sommerfeld Outstanding Tax Educator; and received the American Taxation Association Lifetime Service Award in 2022. He has won the American Taxation Association Tax Manuscript Award four times (in 2017, 2004, 1995, and 1992) and twice won the AAA Competitive Manuscript for young scholars (1990 and 1987). He was awarded the UW Business School Dean’s Faculty Research Award four times. He was awarded the Merage Senior Faculty Research Award in 2021 and 2022.

His research interests are broad and include the effect of taxes on business decisions and asset prices, capital markets-based accounting research, earnings management, research design and statistical significance testing issues. His teaching interests are financial accounting, taxes and business decisions, and empirical research methodology. He has spoken at numerous doctoral consortiums.