Economics
Our people
Department Chair
- 2102 Wittich Hall
- steimouri@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5296
Specialty areas:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, International Labor.
Academic Department Associate
Full-time faculty
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 2134 Wittich Hall
- sbabaeibalderlou@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5293
Specialty areas:
Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Inclusion and Diversity, Economics of Education
- Professor
- 2132 Wittich Hall
- ndutta@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5294
Specialty areas:
New Institutional Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, Entrepreneurship and and Economics of Gender
- Assistant Professor
- 2130 Wittich Hall
- meckrote@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6866
Specialty areas:
Labor economics, Public economics, Agricultural Economics
- Professor
- 2128 Wittich Hall
- lgiddings@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5297
Specialty areas:
Labor Economics, Transition Economies, Sports Economics, and Economics of the Family with a focus on Same-Sex Households
- Professor
- 2140 Wittich Hall
- mhaupert@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6863
Specialty areas:
economic history, economics of sports and entertainment
- Assistant Professor
- 2114 Wittich Hall
- ijahan@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8102
Specialty areas:
Development Economics, Political Economy, Institutions, Entrepreneurship, Informal Employment, Corruption, and Gender.
- Teaching Professor
- 2116 Wittich Hall
- lmiller2@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6865
- Professor
- 2106 Wittich Hall
- jmurray@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6828
Specialty areas:
Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policies, macroeconometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning. See https://www.murraylax.org for more information.
- Professor
- 2136 Wittich Hall
- jnunley@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5145
Specialty areas:
Labor Economics, Economics of the Family, Field Experiments
- Teaching Assistant Professor
- 2138 Wittich Hall
- sparsons@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6864
- Assistant Professor
- 2112 Wittich Hall
- atayebi@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8365
- Associate Professor
- 2102 Wittich Hall
- steimouri@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.5296
Specialty areas:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Econometrics, International Labor.
- Assistant Professor
- 2108 Wittich Hall
- hvacapereirarocha@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6925
Specialty areas:
Economic Growth, International Economics, and Applied Econometrics
Adjunct Faculty
- Research Intern
- 2122 Wittich Hall
- mebrahimitorki@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.6860
Specialty areas:
Banking, Fintech, Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Financial Innovation
- Researcher I
- 2124 Wittich Hall
- nmcfaden@uwlax.edu
- 608.785.8224
Emeriti Faculty
Barry Clark
Amena Khandker
Wahhab Khandker
Elizabeth Knowles
Glenn Knowles
Keith Sherony