TEACHING
Classes at Miami University (since August 2022):
Economics 202 - Principles of Macroeconomics (spring 2025)
Economics 347 - Economic Development (fall 2024, spring 2024, spring 2023) - in fall 2024, an honors contract section of ECO 347 completed a Diplomacy Lab project with the U.S. Embassy in Colombia on "Impacts of Coca Legalization: Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia"
Economics 420I - Economic Growth Theory & Applications (fall 2023) - the class included a Diplomacy Lab project with the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan on "Improving the Business Climate in Turkmenistan"
Economics 315 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (fall 2022)
Co-supervised 9 undergraduates in a cost-benefit analysis of a local grant with my colleague Greg Niemesh in spring 2023
Thesis supervising: Taylor Horn 2024 (M.A./Honors), Cyle Ginsberg (Honors 2025), Maggie Etzler (Honors 2025, co-supervised)
Classes regularly taught at the University of Kentucky (until May 2022):
Economics 402 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Economics 499 - Seminar in Economics, Economics of Africa
Economics 762 - Advanced Macroeconomics (Ph.D. field course)
Some of my former PhD students, whom I advised or co-advised:
Monika Islam Khan, PhD 2021, Assistant Professor, Missouri State University
(Monika's initial placement was Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College, MA)
Andrew Jonelis, PhD 2019, Teaching Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Kara Riesing, PhD 2019, Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University (OH)
(Kara's initial placement was Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, PA)
Hao Guo, PhD 2017, Assistant Professor, Liaoning University (China)
(Hao's initial placement was Nanjing Audit University, China)
Anna Maximova, PhD 2017, Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College (CA)
Emily Marshall, PhD 2015, Associate Professor, Dickinson College (PA)
Maria Apostolova, PhD 2014, Associate Professor, Centre College (KY) starting fall 2015
(Maria's initial placement was Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington, VA)
Brandon Sheridan, PhD 2012, Associate Professor, Elon University (NC) starting fall 2016
(Brandon's initial placement was Assistant Professor, North Central College, IL)
Biniv Maskay, PhD 2012, Associate Professor, Loras College (IA)
And some whose committee I was on (economics unless noted otherwise):
Ryan Hanson, PhD 2022, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Yoonseon Han, PhD 2021, Philip M. Phibbs Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound (WA)
Barrak Algharabali, PhD 2019 Public Policy, Assistant Professor, Kuwait University
Tim Bianco, PhD 2018, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College (PA)
Qiping (Jimmy) Huang, PhD 2018 Finance, Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
Abdelaziz Lawani, PhD 2018 Agricultural Economics, Assistant Professor, Tennessee State University
Didier Alia, PhD 2017 Agricultural Economics, Research Associate, University of Washington
Na Zuo, PhD 2017 Agricultural Economics, Associate Professor of the Practice, University of Arizona
Cole Rakow, PhD 2016 Public Policy, Economist, Independent Budget Office of the City of New York
Rishav Bista, PhD 2012, Associate Professor, Texas Christian University
Tonmoy Islam, PhD 2012, Associate Professor, Elon University (NC)
Gil Kim, PhD 2009, Associate Professor, Fresno State University (CA)