Mike Breazeale, Ph.D.
Mike Breazeale, professor of marketing in the College of Business, has been on faculty at Mississippi State University (MSU) since 2014. A Jackson native, Breazeale holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Millsaps College and a 2010 doctorate in marketing from MSU. He joined the faculty at Indiana University Southeast and later taught at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. Earlier in his career, he was the successful owner of video store, movie theater, and real estate businesses, discovering his academic abilities in understanding how businesses thrive and in consumer-brand relationships.
In 2014, he returned to Starkville and MSU, joining the College of Business as an assistant marketing professor and advancing through the ranks to his current professor position. In 2022, he founded the college’s Market Innovation Lab and Observatory, an advanced biometric business research facility and one of the largest in academia in the southeastern U.S. In the area of University service, Mike has served as an adjudicator and mediator for Mississippi State’s Title IX Office, as a member of the Faculty Senate for six years, serving two terms as vice president, on the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, and on the advisory board for the university’s Bulldog Experience Quality Enhancement Plan, among other committees. The MSU Grisham Master Teacher represents the College of Business as doctoral degree coordinator and inclusion and diversity officer and is a member of the International Ombudsman’s Association as well as various other professional societies and organizations.