Welcome! I am currently in the process of splitting up my online presence into separate personal and professional domains. Thus, glpolites.net will remain my permanent home for posting fossil, horse racing, and other personal content. My other domain, glpolites.us, will be used going forward only for posting my professional (academic) information -- at least until I retire. This conversion process will take some time to fully implement (the website template I use for both domains is over 20 years old!), so I appreciate your patience. I am a Full Professor in the Department of Information Systems & Business Analytics at Kent State University, and have worked here since 2012. I received my bachelor's and master's degrees in MIS, as well as my MBA, from the University of South Florida, and completed my Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of Georgia in 2009. My hobbies nowadays revolve primarily around traveling (particularly out west, as far from civilization as I can get), collecting horse racing memorabilia, and amateur photography. Back when I lived in Florida, I went fossil collecting regularly, and won several prestigious awards for my educational displays at shell shows throughout the state. I also had the opportunity to help with curating specimens in the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History for several years, and coauthored a couple of niche papers in the field of invertebrate paleontology. Along the way, I was honored by having two fossil mollusk species named after me. My interests shifted of necessity after moving up north (no good fossils up here...), and I returned to pursuing my childhood love of horse racing, at first joining the Churchill Downs Racing Club and then branching out into real ownership in some claiming partnerships in Kentucky. In the microshare world, I was one of the microshare owners of Authentic (2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic winner and 2020 Horse of the Year), Country Grammer (2022 Dubai World Cup winner), and Seize the Grey (2024 Preakness Stakes winner). More recently, I've shifted to following harness racing, and have a 5% stake in a trotter named Erin who races in PA and NY. Three of my horse racing photos have been displayed at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga, New York. My Flickr Horse Racing Albums (infrequently updated, since I now post most photos directly to racing friends on my personal Facebook account) My New Racing Blog: "Railbirds and Ruins: Tracking History, Collecting Memories" (created on October 5, 2025) Go For Glory Stable (harness racing's premier fractional ownership group)