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
Assistant Professor
2110 Wittich Hall
cvaughn@uwlax.edu
608.785.5140
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