Faculty
Fabiola Alba-Vivar
Assistant Professor
B.A. – Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
M.A. – Brown University
M.Phil – Columbia University
Ph.D. – Columbia University
Research Interest: Development Economics, Education and Labor Economics, Gender and Health Economics
Fred Chen
Professor
B.S. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. – University of Chicago
Research Interests: Economic Epidemiology, Bioeconomics
Mark Curtis
Department Chair, Reynolds Professor of Economics and Associate Professor
B.A. – Furman University
M.A. – Duke University
Ph.D. – Georgia State University
Research Interests: Environmental, Labor, Energy, and Public Economics
Tina Dalton
Associate Professor
B.A. – Cornell University
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics
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John Dalton
Associate Professor
B.A. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A. – University of Minnesota
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
Research Interests: International Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, and Economic History
Amanda Griffith
Professor
B.A. – Colgate University
M.A. – Cornell University
Ph.D. – Cornell University
Research Interests: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics
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Aeimit Lakdawala
Associate Professor
B.S./B.A. – University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, and Macro-Finance
Leah Lakdawala
Associate Professor and Clark Family Faculty Fellow
B.Sc. – Georgetown University
M.Sc. – University of College London
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Health Economics
Tin Cheuk (Tommy) Leung
Associate Professor
B.A. – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
M.A. – University of Minnesota
Ph.D. – University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Applied Micro, Copyright, and African Slave Trade
John MacDonald
Associate Teaching Professor
B.A. – Wake Forest University
Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Megan Manassah
Assistant Teaching Professor
B.S./B.A. – University of Florida
M.Ed. – University of Florida
Ph.D. – University of Florida
Research Interests: Poverty, Inequality, and the Economics of Gender
Brian Marein
Assistant Professor
B.S. – Ohio State University
M.A. – University of Colorado, Boulder
Ph.D. – University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Interests: Economic history, development, Latin America and the Caribbean
Todd McFall
Associate Teaching Professor
B.S. – Miami University
Ph.D. – North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Sports and Economics, Industrial Organization, and Personnel Economics
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Andre Mouton
Assistant Professor
B.A. – Baruch College
Ph.D. – Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization
Erik Nesson
Associate Professor
B.B.A.,B.S. – University of Wisconsin Madison
M.A. – Emory University
Ph.D. – Emory Unviersity
Research Interests: Health Economics, Law and Economics, and Sports Economics.
Giorgi Nikolaishvili
Assistant Professor
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Economics -Tufts University
M.S. – University of Oregon
Ph.D. – University of Oregon
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Computational Economics
Andreea Rotarescu
Assistant Professor
B.A. – University of Vienna
M.Sc. – Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Ph.D. – Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Productivity and Growth, Firm Dynamics, and International Finance
Jinyoung Seo
Assistant Professor
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B.S. – Yonsei University
M.A. – Yonsei University
Ph.D. – University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary economics and Macro-finance
Koleman Strumpf
Professor and Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy
B.S. – Stanford University
A.B. – Stanford University
Ph.D. – MIT
Research Interests: File Sharing, Predication Markets, and Industrial Organization
Robert Whaples
Professor
B.A. – University of Maryland
Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: American Economic History, Consensus Among Economists, and Political Economy
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Chu (Alex) Yu
Assistant Professor
B.A. – Northwestern University
Ph.D. – University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
Visiting Faculty
Estonia Black
Visiting Assistant Professor
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B.A., B.S. – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Information theory, search and matching, and school choice/admissions decisions.
Tabitha Knott
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A. – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
M.A. – Clemson University
Ph.D. – Clemson University
Research Interests: Public Economics, Regional Economics, and Economics in Crime
Emeriti
Donald E. Frey
Claire H. Hammond
J. Daniel Hammond
Michael S. Lawlor
John C. Moorhouse
Perry L. Patterson
John H. Wood
Staff Contacts