Assistant Professor, Accounting
Joined UConn in 1999
Education/Professional
Certification
B.A., Macalester College
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
CPA
Other Professional Experience
Internal Revenue Service, Revenue Agent and District Conferee
KPMG, Tax Manager
Compagnie Generale de Geophysique, Tax Manager
Teaching Interests: Tax Accounting and Tax Research
Research Interests: Tax Policy
Professor Dunbar joined the accounting faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1999. She was a faculty member at the University of Texas at San Antonio from 1989 to 1993, and at the University of Iowa from 1993 to 1998. While at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she received the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, a College of Business teaching award, and several research awards, including the Ernst & Young Tax Literature Award. While at the University of Iowa, she received a University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award (one of 15 given university-wide) as well as two Department of Accounting teaching awards. Professor Dunbar has published in the Journal of the American Taxation Association, the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, and several legal journals. Her research deals with tax policy issues, including a recent publication on who would bear the burden of the proposed flat tax. She is a member of Board of Trustees for the American Taxation Association and has been active in both the Texas and Iowa Society of CPAs.
