• Served as Dean at the KU School of Business from 2017 to 2024
• Launched strategic planning process in fall 2017 to help direct efforts to advance the stature and impact of the School of Business
• Previously served as the Dean of the School of Business at Trinity University in San Antonio

Fields served as the KU School of Business Dean from 2017 to 2024. Before coming to KU, she previously served as Dean of the School of Business at Trinity University in San Antonio and, prior to that, held a variety of academic and leadership roles at Texas A&M University.

Fields’ research expertise includes corporate governance, banking, insurance, and capital structure. She served as an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Research and has more than 20 refereed journal articles to her credit, including publications in the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. She has also won a number of teaching awards at the school and university levels.

Fields holds a doctorate in business administration (finance) from the University of South Carolina and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in finance from Louisiana State University.