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Full-time Faculty
| Name | Title | Urban Center Building location | Specialization | |
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Grace Arnold
(website) | Associate Professor | 450-L | Applied microeconomics, labor economics, and health economics | |
| Randy Bluffstone | Professor | 450-J | Environmental & resource economics, including climate change, energy, pollution control and deforestation in low-income countries | |
Sahan Dissanayake
(website) | Associate Professor | 450-F | Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Mathematical Programming, Ecosystem Services, Non-Market Valuation, Climate Change | |
| John Luke Gallup | Associate Professor | 450-G | Economic Development, Health Economics, Distribution and Inequality, Geography | |
| John B. Hall | Professor | 470-E | Comparative Economic Systems, Evolutionary-Institutional Economics, Economics of Innovation, Frontier Economy of Amazon River Valley | |
Hiro Ito
| Professor | 450-A | Monetary economics, International finance, Economic development, Asian economics | |
Riju Joshi
(website) | Assistant Professor | 450-K | Econometric Methodology | |
| Arnab Mitra | Associate Professor | 450-C | Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics, and Microeconomics | |
| Cesar M. Rodriguez (website) | Professor | 450-N | International Economics, Macroeconomics, Growth and Development Economics, Latin American Economies | |
Rajiv Sharma
(website) | Professor | 450-D | Access and disparities in health care; consumer preferences and behavior; cost-effectiveness analysis | |
Forrest Williams
(website) | Department Chair and Associate Professor | 450-M | Behavioral Economics, Charitable Giving, Experimental Economics | |
Adjunct Faculty
| Name | Title | Urban Center Building location | Courses Taught |
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| Trish Atkinson | Instructor | n/a | Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics |
| Peter Cunningham | Instructor | URBN 450-U | International Trade Theory |
| Seth Dowden | Instructor | URNB 450-U | Principles of Microeconomics |
| Eric Fruits | Instructor | n/a | Urban Economics |
| Fred Keast | Instructor | n/a | Microeconomics Theory |
| Chantha Kim | Instructor | n/a | Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics |
| Serra Kirsch | Instructor | 450-U | Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Private and Public Investment |
| Sudeshna Pal | Instructor | n/a | Applied Econometrics, Environmental Economics and Regional Energy Policy |
| Mike Paruszkiewicz | Instructor | n/a | Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics |
Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Title | Email |
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| Geir Godager | Professor | geir.godager@medisin.uio.no |
| Robert McCullough | Advisor | robert@mresearch.com |
| Lilia Wasserka-Zhurakhovska | Lecturer | Lilia.Wasserka-Zhurakhovska@universityofgalway.ie |
| Jongmin Yu | Professor | yucono@hongik.ac.kr |
Staff
| Name | Title | Urban Center Building location | Phone number |
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| Anh Ly | Department Manager | 450-B | 503-725-3936 |
| Margie Port-Hansen | Department Coordinator | 450-T | 503-725-3974 |