Graduate Faculty

Patrick Mason, Professor and Chair of the Economics Department, B.A., St. Edward’s University, 1979; M.A., Michigan, 1984; Ph.D., New School University, 1991.

Michael Ash, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Graduate Program Director, A.B., Princeton, 1991; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1999.

Deepankar Basu, Professor, B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1994; M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 1997; M. Phil., 1999; M.A., Ohio State, 2003; Ph.D., 2008.

Christopher Boone, Assistant Professor, B.A., Cornell, 2005; B.S., 2005; M.S., 2009; Ph.D., Columbia, 2015.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Professor, B.A., Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, 1989; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 1994, Ph.D., 2000.

John J. Clegg, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K., 2002; M.A., 2005; M.S., New School for Social Research, 2011; Ph.D., New York University, 2018.

Arindrajit Dube, Professor, B.A., Stanford, 1996; M.A., 1996; Ph.D., Chicago, 2003.

Gerald Epstein, Professor and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, B.A., Swarthmore, 1973; M.P.P., Princeton, 1975; Ph.D., 1981.

Gerald Friedman, Professor, B.A., Columbia, 1977; M.A., Harvard, 1983; Ph.D., 1985.

Ina Ganguli, Professor, B.A., Northwestern, 2001; M.P.P., Michigan, 2004; Ph.D., Harvard, 2011.

Jayati Ghosh, Professor, B.A., Delhi, India, 1975; M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru, India, 1977; M.Phil., Cambridge, 1979; Ph.D., 1983.

James Heintz, Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics, B.S., Cornell, 1990; M.S., Minnesota, 1992; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2001.

Donald W. Katzner, Professor, B.A., Oberlin, 1959; M.A., Minnesota, 1962; Ph.D., 1965.

Lawrence P. King, Professor, B.A., Michigan, 1989; M.A., UCLA, 1992; Ph.D., 1997.

Fidan Ana Kurtulus, Professor, A.B., Chicago, 2000; Ph.D., Cornell, 2008.

Luis Monroy-Gomez-Franco, Assistant Professor, B.A., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014; M.S., El Colegio de México, 2016; Ph.D., City University of New York 2022.

Katherine Moos, Assistant Professor, B.A., Sarah Lawrence, 2006; M.A., New School for Social Research, 2014; Ph.D., 2017.

Léonce Ndikumana, Distinguished Professor and Director of the African Development Policy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute, B.A., Burundi, Africa, 1986; M.A., Washington University, 1992; Ph.D., 1996.

Lenore M. Palladino, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, B.A., Chicago, 2002; J.D., Fordham, 2012; Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 2015.

Robert N. Pollin, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute, B.A., Wisconsin, 1972; M.A., New School for Social Research, 1979; Ph.D., 1982.

Arslan M. Razmi, Professor, B.S., Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, 1995; M.S., Texas at Austin, 1996; Ph.D., American, 2004.

Itai Sher, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, B.A., Reed, 1997; M.A., Texas at Austin, 2001; Ph.D., Northwestern, 2007.

Priyanka Srivastava, Associate Professor of History and Economics, M.A., Allahabad, India, 1994; M. Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru, India, 1997; Ph.D. Cincinnati, 2012.

Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor, B.S., National Institute of Technology, India, 1992; M.B.A., Institute of Management and Labor Relations, India, 1994; M.A., Massachusetts Amherst, 2004; Ph.D., 2004.

Marta Vicarelli, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, B.A., Ecole Normale, France, 2002; M.A., Ecole Polytechnique, France, 2003; Ph.D., Columbia, 2011.

Mwangi wa Githinji, Associate Professor, B.A., City College of New York, 1989; M.A., California at Riverside, 1991; Ph.D., 1997.

Isabella Maria Weber, Associate Professor, B.A., Free University Berlin, 2012; M.A., The New School for Social Research, 2015; M.Phil., 2016; Ph.D., 2019; Ph.D., Cambridge, 2018.

Naoki Yoshihara, Professor, B.A., Hokkaido, Japan, 1990; M.A., Hitotsubashi, Japan, 1992, Ph.D. 1996.

Kevin L. Young, Professor, B.A., Trent University, Canada, 2003; M.A., Carleton University, Canada, 2005; M.Rsch., London School of Economics, 2006; Ph.D., 2010.

Faculty Emeriti

Norman Aitken, Professor Emeritus (2011).

M. V. Lee Badgett, Professor Emerita (2024).

Randall Bausor, Professor Emeritus (2013).

Samuel Bowles, Professor Emeritus (Active) (2002).

James K. Boyce, Professor Emeritus (Active) (2018).

Carmen D. Deere, Professor Emerita (2007).

Diane P. Flaherty, Professor Emerita (Active) (2022).

Nancy Folbre, Professor Emerita and Sheridan Scholar (Active) (2013).

Carol E. Heim, Professor Emerita (Active) (2019).

David M. Kotz, Professor Emeritus (Active) (2017).

J. Mohan Rao, Professor Emeritus (2018).

Lisa Saunders, Professor Emeritus (2021).

William Geoffrey Shepherd, Professor Emeritus (2002).

Peter Skott, Professor Emeritus (Active) (2022).

Richard D. Wolff, Professor Emeritus (2009).