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Faculty

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Scott L. Baier

Department Chair, Professor

Ph.D. Michigan State University
Fields: International Trade, Economic Growth and Development, Applied Econometrics
312A Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-4534
sbaier@clemson.edu

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Carol Sweeney

Acting Assistant Chair, Senior Lecturer

M.S. University College Dublin, Ireland
Fields: Economics Education, Sports Economics, Economic Development
320N Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
csween6@clemson.edu

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Robert K. Fleck

Professor, Undergraduate Coordinator

Ph.D. Stanford University
Fields: Political Economy, Public Finance, Economic History, Development Economics
312D Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-3964
rfleck@clemson.edu

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Curtis J. Simon

Professor, Ph.D. Graduate Coordinator

Ph.D. SUNY-Binghamton
Fields: Labor Economics, Urban Economics
312F Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-3966
cjsmn@clemson.edu

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Thomas Andrew Evans

Clinical Associate Professor, Masters Program Graduate Coordinator

Ph.D. Clemson University
Fields: Public Choice, Public Finance, Public Policy
309E Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
tevans6@clemson.edu

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Scott Templeton

Associate Professor, Bachelor-to-Masters Advisor

Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Fields: Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
309G Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-6680
stemple@clemson.edu

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Howard Bodenhorn

Professor

Ph.D. Rutgers University
Fields: Economic History, Law and Economics
309H Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
bodnhrn@clemson.edu

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Cheng Chen

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Princeton University (2014)
Fields: International Economics, Firm Dynamics
320H Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
cchen9@clemson.edu

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Babur De los Santos

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Industrial Organization, Empirical Microeconomics
318K Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
babur@clemson.edu

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William R. Dougan

Alumni Distinguished Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Political Economy, Public Finance, Monetary Theory, Applied Microeconomics
318B Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
douganw@clemson.edu

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David Drukker

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Texas
Fields: Econometrics, Statistical Programming
ddrukke@clemson.edu

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Eamon Espey

Lecturer

M.S. University of Michigan
Fields: Machine Learning, Geospatial Analytics
eespey@clemson.edu

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Molly Espey

Professor

Ph.D. UC Davis
Fields: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Policy
312H Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
mespey@clemson.edu

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Aspen Gorry

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
320D Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
cgorry@clemson.edu

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Devon Gorry

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics
320K Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
dgorry@clemson.edu

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F. Andrew Hanssen

Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, Property Rights
318N Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
fhansse@clemson.edu

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Thomas W. Hazlett

Hugh H. Macaulay Endowed Chair of Economics
Director, Information Economy Project at Clemson University

Ph.D. UCLA
Fields: Law & Economics, Public Choice, Information Technology
312P Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-3430
hazlett@clemson.edu

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Brad Hobbs

Clinical Professor

Ph.D. Florida State University
Fields: Economic Freedom and Growth, Economic and Intellectual History, The Philosophical Foundations of Markets and Pedagogy
309A Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
hobbs4@clemson.edu

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Miren Ivankovic

Adjunct Faculty

Ph.D. Clemson University
Fields: Sports Economics, Economics of Higher Education, Labor Economics
mivanko@clemson.edu

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Michal M. Jerzmanowski

Associate Professor

Ph.D. Brown University
Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
318L Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
mjerzma@clemson.edu

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Jonathan M. Leganza

Assistant Professor, Powers Emerging Fellow

Ph.D. University of California San Diego
Fields: Public Finance, Labor Economics, Health Economics
309E Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
jleganz@clemson.edu

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Matthew S. Lewis

Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Fields: Industrial Organization, Energy Economics, Health Economics
309J Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
mslewis@clemson.edu

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Paulo Lins

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Rochester
Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
plins@clemson.edu

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Daria Litsukova-Bokar

Adjunct Faculty

Ph.D. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Fields: Property Rights, Comparative Economic Systems, Institutional and Organizational Economics, Economic History
312G Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
dlitsuk@clemson.edu

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Michael Makowsky

Professor

Ph.D. George Mason University
Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Law and Economics, Agent-based Computational Modeling
320R Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
mdmakow@clemson.edu

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Chris Marshall

Lecturer

MBA Columbia University
Fields: Monetary Economics, Financial Markets
312E Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
rcmarsh@clemson.edu

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Joseph Pedtke

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Fields: Macroeconomics, Macro-Labor, Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility
320D Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
jpedtke@clemson.edu

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Gary Shiffman

Visiting Professor

Ph.D. George Mason University
Fields: Artificial Intelligence, Applied Microeconomics, Crime, National Security
gshiffm@clemson.edu

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Adam Soliman

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Duke University
Fields: Crime, Urban Education, Health Economics
asolima@clemson.edu

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Robert F. Tamura

Professor

Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Human Capital, Economic Growth and Development
312M Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
rtamura@clemson.edu

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Charles Thomas

Clinical Professor

Ph.D. Princeton University
Fields: Industrial Organization, Antitrust, Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics
320F Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
cjt@clemson.edu

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Patrick L. Warren

Professor

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fields: Political Economy, Organizational Economics
309F Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
pwarren@clemson.edu

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Reed Watson

Professor of Practice
Director, Hayek Center for the Business of Prosperity

J.D. Duke University
Fields: Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Political Economy
309B Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-9524
reed81@clemson.edu

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Paul W. Wilson

J. Wilson Newman Professor of Economics, Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. Brown University
Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Microeconomics
320A Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
pww@clemson.edu

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Christy Zhou

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Maryland at College Park
Fields: Environmental and Energy Economics, Industrial Organization
320M Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
yichen2@clemson.edu

Staff

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Kimmie Albertson

Administrative Coordinator

312C Wilbur O. and Ann Powers Hall
864-656-3497
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