Economics Faculty

Chair
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Associate Professor
Eric Ohrn, Associate Professor, received a B.A in Math and Economics at Grinnell College 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 the impact of federal tax policy on...
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Assistant Professor
Shubhashrita Basu, Assistant Professor, received a B.Sc. in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India, a M.A. in Economics from Jadavpur University, India, and Ph.D. in Economics from Clemson University in May of 2021. Her teaching and research areas are health economics and labor...
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Associate Professor
On leave spring 2024. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from Grinnell College, 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...
William Ferguson
Senior Faculty

Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics

Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College, 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...
Bradley
Associate Professor
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...
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Assistant Professor
On leave 2023–24 academic year. Andrea Kelly, 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...
Logan
Associate Professor
Logan Lee, Assistant Professor, received a B.A in Economics and Government from Augustana University and an M.S. and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Oregon. Professor Lee teaches courses in behavioral and experiment economics, the economics of crime, and econometrics. Much of his research...
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Assistant Professor
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 has done field and survey work in...
Mark
Senior Faculty

Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership

Mark Montgomery is a Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership, and Professor of Economics, at Grinnell College. 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...
Paul Munyon
Emeritus
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.
Mutti
Emeritus

Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics

John “Jack” Mutti, Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics, has a B.A. from Earlham College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He teaches and does research on international economics and public finance.
Abhinaba Nandy
Assistant Professor
Abhinaba Nandy, Assistant Professor, completed his pre-doctoral studies at the University of Calcutta and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in India followed by a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech, with research interests in Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics and...
Qing Nie
Assistant Professor
I received a Bachelor of Arts in international business from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (China) in 2018, and doctorate in economics from Texas Tech University (U.S. Texas) in 2023. My recent research focuses on the interaction of macroeconomic policy and energy market volatilities...
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Assistant Professor
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...
Irene
Emerita
Irene Powell is Professor of Economics at Grinnell College. 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...
Janet
Emerita
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.
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Associate Professor

Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics

Hâle Utar is the Sidney Meyer Endowed Chair in International Economics and an Associate Professor, a research fellow at IZA, a member of CESifo, and an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics. She completed her undergraduate degree at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and obtained her...

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