Margaret Shackell-Dowell

School of Accounting and Finance Fellowship Honourees

Margaret Shackell-Dowell, MAcc, PhD, CA

Margaret graduated from the University of Waterloo's School of Accounting with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989 and a Master of Accounting degree in 1990. After qualifying for her CA designation, Margaret moved to the National Office of Dunwoody & Company. She ran training programs for the company before and after the merger with Ward Mallette. Margaret then spent a year back at Waterloo on faculty, teaching Cost Accounting and helping to develop A New Introduction to Accounting (A.N.I.T.A) She moved to Ann Arbor Michigan in 1994 to pursue her doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. She completed her PhD in accounting in 1999.

Margaret moved to Indiana to become an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. She taught Cost Accounting, and tried to instill a love of "shades of grey" that she learned at Waterloo (both times!). In 2007, Margaret moved to New York when she joined the faculty of accounting, and a graduate elective (primarily to engineers ~ a group highly reminiscent of Waterloo days) in financial accounting across three schools, The Johnson Graduate School of Management, The Hotel School, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Margaret has published research related to performance measurement and decision making in top accounting journals. Margaret is married to an academic, Glen Dowell, and assistant professor in management and Organizations group at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. They have three children, Shalom 16 years old, Claire 7 years old, and Gavin 5 years old. They like to ski, skate, swim, and play other sports.