Economics Faculty
Professor
Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from 51²è¹İapp College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His course offerings include microeconomic analysis, public economics, and environmental and resource economics. His research examines...
Assistant Professor
Email: buithuha@grinnell.edu
Ha Bui, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in International Economics from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her course offerings include Macroeconomics and Time Series Econometrics. Her research interests are in the...
Senior Faculty
Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics
Email: ferguso1@grinnell.edu
Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at 51²è¹İapp College, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic...
Professor
Email: grahambj@grinnell.edu
On leave 2023–24 academic year. Bradley Graham (Ph.D. University of Colorado, 2008) – Bradley Graham, Associate Professor, has B.S.E and J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His course offerings include the economics of...
Assistant Professor
Email: kellyand@grinnell.edu
On leave 2023–24 academic year. Andrea Hall, Assistant Professor, received her B.S. in Economics from the University of South Dakota and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Her teaching and research areas are health economics and public economics. Much of her research focuses on the impacts of...
Assistant Professor
Email: luxinchan@grinnell.edu
Xinchan Lu, Assistant Professor, received a B.S. in Economics at University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Economics at University of California, Riverside. Her course offerings include Macroeconomic Analysis and Money and Banking. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics and monetary economics...
Associate Professor
Email: mcgavock@grinnell.edu
On leave 2024 - 2025 academic year. Tamara McGavock, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University. Her teaching and research areas are development economics, economics of gender and the family, and microeconomic theory. She...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: mohamedsi@grinnell.edu
Sied Hassen Mohamed received a PhD degree in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, master's degree in development and environmental economics from University of Oslo, Norway and B.A degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University. Prior to my current position at 51²è¹İapp College, I was...
Senior Faculty
Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership
Email: montgome@grinnell.edu
Mark Montgomery is a Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership, and Professor of Economics, at 51²è¹İapp College. Mark teaches Mathematical Economics, the Economics of Education, and Environmental Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1982. His...
Emeritus
Email: munyon@grinnell.edu
Paul Munyon, Associate Professor, earned his B.A. at Westmar College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He teaches accounting, finance and industrial organization. His current research focuses on challenges to finance theory posed by high-tech IPOs.
Emeritus
Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics
Email: mutti@grinnell.edu
John “Jack†Mutti, Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics, has a B.A. from Earlham College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He teaches and does research on international economics and public finance.
Assistant Professor
Email: nandyabh@grinnell.edu
Abhinaba Nandy, Assistant Professor, completed his pre-doctoral studies at the University of Calcutta and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in India followed by a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech, with research interests in Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics and...
Associate Professor
Email: ohrneric@grinnell.edu
On leave 2024-2025 academic year. Eric Ohrn, Associate Professor, received a B.A in Math and Economics at 51²è¹İapp College and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan. Professor Ohrn’s teaching focuses on the areas Public Finance, Corporate Finance, and Accounting. His research examines...
Assistant Professor
Email: pakermer@grinnell.edu
Meredith Paker, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Georgia and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College), where she was a Marshall Scholar. Professor Paker’s research and teaching areas are economic history, labor...
Emerita
Email: powelli@grinnell.edu
Irene Powell is Professor of Economics at 51²è¹İapp College. She teaches Econometrics, the Economics of Developing Countries, Health Economics, and the Economics of Gender. Irene received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1985. She has done research in the areas such as the...
Emerita
Email: seiz@grinnell.edu
Janet Seiz, Associate Professor, has a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. She teaches economic development and income distribution courses, and is researching feminist economics and economic methodology.
Associate Professor
Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics
Email: utarhale@grinnell.edu
On leave Fall semester 2024. Hâle Utar holds the Sidney Meyer Endowed Chair in International Economics and is an Associate Professor. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA and CESifo, and serves as an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics. She completed her undergraduate degree at...