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Economics Department

Faculty


Tenure Track Faculty 

John T. Addison, Ph.D.
London School of Economics, 1971
Academic Research Interests: Collective Bargaining, Unemployment, Human Capital
E-mail: ecceaddi@moore.sc.edu

McKinley Blackburn, Ph.D.
Harvard University, 1987
Academic Research Interests: Wage Structure, Income Inequality, Economics Demography
E-mail: blackbrn@moore.sc.edu

Janice Boucher Breuer Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, 1987.
Academic Research Interests: International Economics, Econometrics, Price and Wage Determination
E-mail: boucher@moore.sc.edu

Henry W. Chappell, Ph.D.
Yale University, 1979
Academic Research Interests: Public Choice, Voting Behavior, Macroeconomics Policy
E-mail:   chappell@moore.sc.edu 

Stephen R. Finger, Ph.D.
Duke University, 2008
Academic Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation, and Applied Microeconomics
E-mail:  stephen.finger@moore.sc.edu

William R. Hauk, Jr., Ph.D.
Stanford University, 2005
Academic Research Interests:  International Trade, Political Economics, Economic Growth, Applied Econometrics
E-mail:  hauk@moore.sc.edu

Christian Jensen, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
Academic Research Interests:  Macro and Monetary Economics, Dynamic Policy Issues
E-mail:  cjensen@moore.sc.edu

Randolph C. Martin, Ph.D.
Washington University, 1971
Academic Research Interests: Regional and Urban Economics, Economic Modeling
E-mail: rmartin@moore.sc.edu

John McDermott, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Brown University, 1979
Academic Research Interests: International Economics, Growth Theory
E-mail: dynamo@moore.sc.edu

Melayne Morgan McInnes, Ph.D.
Yale University, 1998
Academic Research Interests: Economics of Health Care Industry, Medical Malpractice, Economic Burden of Smoking and Obesity, Experimental Economics, and Economics of Insurance
E-mail: mcinnes@moore.sc.edu

Chun-Hui Miao, Ph.D.
Princeton University, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Industrial Organization, Corporate Finance and Behavior Economics
E-mail:  miao@moore.sc.edu

Jason Murray, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego, 2007
Academic Research Interests:  Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics, Fishery Management, Marine Conservation Economics, Ecological Economics, Economic Growth
E-mail:  jhmurray@moore.sc.edu

Orgül Demet Öztürk, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Labor Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics
E-mail: odozturk@moore.sc.edu

Doug Woodward, Ph.D.
University of Texas-Austin, 1986
Academic Research Interests: Regional Economics, International Economics
E-mail: woodward@moore.sc.edu

Research Associate Professor Faculty

Paulo Guimaraes
University of South Carolina, 1992
Academic Research Interests:  Industrial Economics, Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics
E-mail:  guimaraes@moore.sc.edu 

Clinical Track Faculty

Chandini Sankaran
Academic Research Interests:  Economic Development particularly International and Sustainable Development 
E-mail:  chandini.sankaran@moore.sc.edu

Distinguished Lecturer Faculty

James P. Bradley, Jr.,
University of North Carolina, 1970
E-mail: jbradley@moore.sc.edu 

Lecturer Faculty

Donald C. Balch, M.A.
University of South Carolina, 1984
E-mail:  sxabalch@moore.sc.edu

John Gordanier, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Labor Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics
E-mail: jgordanier@moore.sc.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Robert J. Carlsson, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, 1964
Academic Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics
E-mail: carlsson@moore.sc.edu

Robert W. Clower, Doctor of Letters
Oxford University, 1978
Academic Research Interests: Money, Banking, Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Elchanan Cohn, Ph.D.
Iowa State University, 1968
Academic Research Interests: Human Capital, Education, Public Finance
E-mail: feu00004@moore.sc.edu

B. F. Kiker, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 1965.
Academic Research Interests: Human Capital, Economic Theory
E-mail: kikerbf@moore.sc.edu

W. Pierce Liles, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, 1972
E-mail: lilesp@moore.sc.edu

William Phillips, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980
Academic Research Interests: Economic History, International Trade
E-mail: wmphllps@moore.sc.edu

Ronald P. Wilder, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University, 1969
Academic Research Interests: Health Economics, Forensic Economics, Regulation and
Deregulation
E-mail: wilder@moore.sc.edu