Paul John Steinbart joined the W. P. Carey School of Business as a professor in the School of Accountancy and Information Management in 1997. Professor Steinbart's research interests include issues concerning the usability of information security solutions, individuals’ information security behaviors, effective governance of information security, and consumers' privacy concerns. His research has been published in leading academic peer-reviewd journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, The Accounting Review, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. He is also the co-author of the undergraduate textbook “Accounting Information Systems” published by Pearson.

Before joining W. P. Carey, Professor Steinbart was a member of the accounting faculties at Saint Louis University (where he held the Ernst & Young Professorship in Accounting), Memphis State University, and the University of Utah. He earned his doctorate at Michigan State University.

He has served as the senior editor of the Journal of Information Systems (American Accounting Association) and has received teaching awards from the Department of Information Systems (Masters of Science in Information Management program, 2014-2015) and from Saint Louis University (Beta Alpha Psi Outstanding Teacher of the Year - 1997).