Laura J. Ahlstrom is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Oklahoma State University. Her academic research in the area of economic education has appeared in American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings and Perspectives on Economic Education Research, and her latest work in this area appears in the edited volume Teaching Economics: Perspectives on Innovative Economics Education (Springer, 2019). Her research on income inequality in the United States appears in Compensation and Benefits Review. Laura earned a PhD in economic education from the University of Delaware.
Carlos J. Asarta is a Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship, at the University of Delaware. He is the co-author of the popular Principles of Economics (McGraw-Hill, 2018), and he is currently serving as President of the Delaware Council on Economic Education. His academic research in the area of economic education has appeared in American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Management Education, and International Review of Economics Education, to name a few. Prior to joining the economics faculty at the University of Delaware, Carlos served on the economics faculty at the University of Nebraska. Carlos earned a PhD in economics from the University of Nebraska.
Daniel Bonneau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at West Virginia University. His research interests lie in the areas of public economics, urban and regional economics, law and economics, and health economics. His current research explores the impact of college sports on hotel demand, transitional governance in Somalia, and the impact of prison construction on the likelihood of incarceration. He won the Academy of Economics and Finance 2019 Best PhD Student Paper Award. Daniel earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Stonehill College.
Rebecca G. Chambers is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware. Her academic research in the area of economic and finance education has appeared in the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, Perspectives on Economic Education Research, and Empirische Pädagogik. In 2012 and 2013, she completed an economic education internship in the Community Development Studies & Education Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Prior to joining the University of Delaware, Rebecca served on the economics faculty at Michigan State University. Rebecca earned a PhD in economic education from the University of Delaware.
Zachary Ferrara is a candidate for the PhD in economic education at the University of Delaware. Zachary earned a B.A. in economics from Widener University.
Joshua C. Hall is a Professor of Economics, and Chair of the Department of Economics, at West Virginia University. He has published a number of articles in academic journals and scholarly books, including Economic and Political Institutions and Development (Springer, 2019) and the ongoing series titled Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History (Springer, 2018–19). He currently serves as the editor of the Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, the official journal of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, and the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy (Emerald). Prior to joining the economics faculty at West Virginia University, he served on the economics faculty at Beloit College, where he was the Elbert H. Neese Jr. Professor of Economics. Joshua earned a PhD in economics from West Virginia University.
Diego Méndez-Carbajo is a Senior Economic Education Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research interests lie in the areas of economic education and open macroeconomics, and his research has appeared in Empirical Economics, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, and Numeracy, to name a few. He currently holds a visiting scholar appointment at the University of Delaware. Diego is an associate editor of The American Economist (SAGE), and in 2017 he received the Abbejean Kehler Technology Award from the National Association of Economic Educators. Prior to joining the Fed, he served on the economics faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. Diego earned a PhD in economics from Florida International University.
Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. is the Violet Litchfield and Thomas Bryant Buck Jr. Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for Economic Education, at Columbus State University. In addition to a number of publications in academic journals, he is the author (or editor) of a number of scholarly books, including A Terrible Efficiency: Entrepreneurial Bureaucrats and the Nazi Holocaust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Public Choice (MDPI Books, 2019), Economic Behavior, Economic Freedom, and Entrepreneurship (Edward Elgar, 2015), and Public Choice Economics and the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Prior to joining the economics faculty at Columbus State University, he served on the economics faculties at Southeastern Louisiana University, University of Southern Mississippi, Auburn University, and Mercer University. Franklin earned a PhD in economics from Auburn University.
Sankaran Ramanathan is a semi-retired Professor of Mass Communications at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. An internationally recognized Asian communications scholar and writer, he was formerly Special Projects Head at Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC). His research in the field of journalism appears in the Journal of International Communication, Australian Journalism Review, Media Asia, Media Information Australia, and The Journalism Educator. He is currently the principal owner of Mediaplus Consultancy. Sankaran earned an M.S. in journalism from Ohio University.
Chandini Sankaran is an Associate Professor of Practice in Economics at Boston College. Her work in resource and environmental economics has appeared in American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Sustainability, while her research in the area of economic education has appeared in Perspectives on Economic Education Research and the Journal of Economics Teaching. Prior to joining the economics faculty at Boston College, she served on the economics faculties at the University of South Carolina and the University of Arizona. Chandini earned a PhD in economics from Kansas State University.
Kamal P. Upadhyaya is a Professor of Economics at the University of New Haven. His research interests include international economics, development economics, and economic education, and has appeared in Economics Letters, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Development Studies, and Public Choice, among others. He is also the author of The Political Economy of Private Saving in the U.S. (Writers Club Press, 2002). Prior to joining the economics faculty at the University of New Haven, he served on the economics faculties at Pennsylvania State University and Salisbury University. Kamal earned a PhD in economics from Auburn University.