Thomas Mayock, associate professor of real estate in Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business, has been appointed the Michael G. Miller Professor of Real Estate by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The Michael G. Miller Professorship in Real Estate was established in 2023 to attract and retain talented faculty in the Blackwood School of Real Estate. The professorship is named in honor of the Virginia Tech alumnus who, with his wife, Rene, founded Michael G. Miller & Associates, which later became the largest independent appraisal firm in the United States and the largest in the state of Virginia. Mr. Miller, who served on Virginia Tech's Board of Visitors from 1998 to 2002, was an early advocate of Virginia Tech's undergraduate real estate program, which began in 2013.
Mayock joined the Virginia Tech faculty this fall. He previously served on the faculty at Montclair State University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and served as a senior financial economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. His research focuses on mortgages and housing markets. He has published 21 articles, five of which were in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, regarded by the American Association of Realtors as one of the leading journals in the field.
Mr. Mayock earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University and his doctorate in economics from Florida State University.