Micheal T. Stratton, Ph.D.

Interim Provost and Professor of Management at the American University in Bulgaria

Micheal T. Stratton, Ph.D., serves as Interim Provost and Professor of Management at the American University in Bulgaria, where he is the university’s chief academic officer for the 2026-2027 academic year. He first came to AUBG in Spring 2025 as the David Flanagan Visiting Professor of Management and teaches in both the undergraduate and Executive MBA programs. In his current role he oversees the academic enterprise, including curriculum, faculty affairs, accreditation, and AUBG’s academic partnerships across Southeast Europe and beyond.
He brings two decades of experience in American higher education to the Bulgarian context. Before joining AUBG, he served as Dean of the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business and Technology and Professor of Management at Georgia College & State University, Georgia’s designated public liberal arts university. He spent ten years on the faculty at the University of North Carolina Asheville,  being promoted and tenured to Professor of Management, where he chaired his department and served two terms as Chair of the Faculty Senate. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy, with a specialization in organizational theory and behavior, from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY, and an undergraduate degree in integrated liberal studies from Western New England University, where he designed his own course of study on organizations drawing from political science, economics, and management.
Stratton’s scholarship examines power and politics in the workplace as well as the teaching of management, with more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters to his name. He completed a three-year term as President of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) in 2022, along with ten years on their Board of Directors, is a Fellow of MOBTS, and serves as an Associate Editor of Management Teaching Review. A native of rural Maine and a first-generation college graduate, he is a firm believer in the educational access and cross-cultural exchange that the Fulbright program makes possible. He lives and works in Blagoevgrad