Faculty
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Fabiola Alba-Vivar
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. – Columbia University
M.Phil – Columbia University
M.A. – Brown University
B.A. – Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Research Interest: Development Economics, Education and Labor Economics, Gender and Health Economics
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Fred Chen
Professor
B.S. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. – University of Chicago
Research Interests: Economic Epidemiology, Bioeconomics
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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John MacDonald
Associate Teaching Professor
B.A. – Wake Forest University
Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Megan Manassah
Assistant Teaching Professor
BSBA, MEd, Ph.D. – University of Florida
Research Interests: Poverty and Risk, Structural Determinants of Poverty, and Regional Economics
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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
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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
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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.
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Giorgi Nikolaishvili
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. – University of Oregon
M.S. – University of Oregon
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Economics -Tufts University
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Computational Economics
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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
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Jinyoung Seo
Assistant Professor
Kirby 252(A)
Ph.D. – University of California, Davis
M.A. – Yonsei University
B.S. – Yonsei University
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary economics and Macro-finance
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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
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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
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Estonia Black
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kirby Hall 210
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.
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Tabitha Knott
Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A. – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
M.A. – Clemson University
Ph.D. – Clemons University
Research Interests: Public Economics, Regional Economics, and Economics in Crime
Emeriti
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Donald E. Frey
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Claire H. Hammond
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J. Daniel Hammond
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Michael S. Lawlor
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John C. Moorhouse
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Perry L. Patterson
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John H. Wood
Staff Contacts
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