Economics Faculty
        
                
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                Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from ɬÀï·¬, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His course offerings include microeconomic analysis, public economics, and environmental and resource economics. His research examines...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: buithuha@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Ha Bui, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in International Economics from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her course offerings include Macroeconomics and Time Series Econometrics. Her research interests are in the...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: chixiang@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Shawn Chi received a B.A. from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, an M.A. from Peking University, and a PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder. As an applied economist, his research interests span financial economics, public finance, and economic demography. He has received research...
            
            
            
        
                
  Senior Faculty
            
            
            
                        Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics
                Email: ferguso1@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at ɬÀï·¬, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: grahambj@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    On leave 2023–24 academic year. Bradley Graham (Ph.D. University of Colorado, 2008) – Bradley Graham, Associate Professor, has B.S.E and J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His course offerings include the economics of...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: kellyand@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    On leave 2023–24 academic year. Andrea Hall, Assistant Professor, received her B.S. in Economics from the University of South Dakota and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Her teaching and research areas are health economics and public economics. Much of her research focuses on the impacts of...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: kimmins@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Minseog Kim, Assistant Professor of Economics, received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Yonsei University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His course offerings include Corporate Finance and Econometrics. His research interests...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: luxinchan@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Xinchan Lu, Assistant Professor, received a B.S. in Economics at University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Economics at University of California, Riverside. Her course offerings include Macroeconomic Analysis and Money and Banking. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics and monetary economics...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Associate Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: mcgavock@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    On leave 2024 - 2025 academic year. Tamara McGavock, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University. Her teaching and research areas are development economics, economics of gender and the family, and microeconomic theory. She...
            
            
            
        
                
  Visiting Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: mohamedsi@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Sied Hassen Mohamed received a PhD degree in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, master's degree in development and environmental economics from University of Oslo, Norway and B.A degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University. Prior to my current position at ɬÀï·¬, I was...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Senior Faculty
            
            
                        Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership
                Email: montgome@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Mark Montgomery is a Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership, and Professor of Economics, at ɬÀï·¬. Mark teaches Mathematical Economics, the Economics of Education, and Environmental Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1982. His...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Emeritus
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: munyon@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Paul Munyon, Associate Professor, earned his B.A. at Westmar College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He teaches accounting, finance and industrial organization. His current research focuses on challenges to finance theory posed by high-tech IPOs.
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Associate Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: ohrneric@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    On leave 2024-2025 academic year. Eric Ohrn, Associate Professor, received a B.A in Math and Economics at ɬÀï·¬ and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan. Professor Ohrn’s teaching focuses on the areas Public Finance, Corporate Finance, and Accounting. His research examines...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Assistant Professor
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: pakermer@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Meredith Paker, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Georgia and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College), where she was a Marshall Scholar. Professor Paker’s research and teaching areas are economic history, labor...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Emerita
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: powelli@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Irene Powell is Professor of Economics at ɬÀï·¬. She teaches Econometrics, the Economics of Developing Countries, Health Economics, and the Economics of Gender. Irene received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1985. She has done research in the areas such as the...
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Emerita
            
            
            
            
                                                
                Email: seiz@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Janet Seiz, Associate Professor, has a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. She teaches economic development and income distribution courses, and is researching feminist economics and economic methodology.
            
            
            
        
        
                
  Professor
            
            
            
                        Sidney Meyer Endowed Professor of International Economics
                Email: utarhale@grinnell.edu
            
            
                        
                
    Hâle Utar is a Professor of Economics at ɬÀï·¬ and holds the Sidney Meyer Endowed Chair in International Economics. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin, and serves as an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics. She earned her...
            
            
            
        