Faculty

Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Charlotte Ambrozek Assistant Professor	Food economics, consumer economics, public economics, food assistance, food retail, policy analysis, applied econometrics.	[email protected]
Marc Bellemare Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, and Northrop Professor	Agricultural Policy, Development and Growth, Food Security.	[email protected]
Mariah Beverly Extension Economist		[email protected]
Michael Boland Professor; Agricultural and Food Business Management Major Coordinator	Agribusiness, Cooperatives, Industrial Organization, Supply Chain.	[email protected]
Brian Buhr Dean, Professor	Food Marketing, Futures & Options Marketing, Market Structure & Industrial Organization, Meat, Livestock & Dairy Marketing, Supply Chains.	[email protected]
Metin Çakır Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	Consumer Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Index Number Theory	[email protected]
Caroline Carlin Adjunct Assistant Professor		[email protected]
Yuan Chai Adjunct Professor	Agricultural risk management; Production economics; Bio-economic modeling; Agricultural R&D; Food security	[email protected]
Jay Coggins Professor	Agricultural Policy, Air and Water Pollution, Common Property Resources, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy and Regulation, Poverty and Welfare, Water Economics.	[email protected]
Robert Craven Extension Professor	Crop Marketing, Crop Production, Farm Management.	[email protected]
Elizabeth Davis Professor, Applied Economics Major Coordinator	Labor economics, child care and early education, public policy, poverty and welfare reform, and rural economics.	[email protected]
Gigi DiGiacomo Research Fellow	Organic Agriculture, Integrated Pest Management, Horticultural Economics, Sustainable Food Systems, Business Planning, Invasive Species	[email protected]
Paul Glewwe Professor, Distinguished McKnight Professor	Development Economics, Economics of Education, and Program Evaluation (Impact Evaluation)	[email protected]
Joleen Hadrich Professor, Associate Dean for the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and CFANS Research & Outreach Centers	Dairy economics, livestock systems, producer level decision-making, agricultural finance	[email protected]
Frances Homans Professor	Natural Resource Economics	[email protected]
Terrance Hurley Austin A. Dowell Professor, Interim Division Head	Natural Resource Economics, Production Economics, Science and Technology Policy	[email protected]
Ali Joglekar Adjunct Assistant Professor	Development Economics, Policy Analysis, Agricultural Economics, Spatial Econometrics.	[email protected]
Justin Johnson Assistant Professor	Environmental Economics, Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, Computable General Equilibrium, Trade and Development, Natural Resource Economics Development Economics, Policy Analysis, Agricultural Economics, Spatial Econometrics.	[email protected]
Katie Wilts Johnson Extension Economist	Farm financial management, risk management, agricultural policy	[email protected]
Laura Kalambokidis Professor, Minnesota State Economist	Economics of Public Services, Public Finance, Regional Economics	[email protected]
Jason Kerwin Associate Professor	Development and Growth, Health Economics, Labor Economics	[email protected]
Kevin Klair Extension Professor	Farm financial management, agricultural policy	[email protected]
William Lazarus Professor, Extension Economist	Agricultural Policy, Farm Management, Production Economics	[email protected]
Curtis Mahnken Extension Professor	Farm financial management, agricultural finance, risk management	[email protected]
Elton Mykerezi Professor	Community, Economic & Rural Development, Labor Economics, Poverty & Welfare, Regional Economics	[email protected]
Dale Nordquist Extension Professor	Farm financial management, production economics	[email protected]
Tade Okediji Professor	Economic Development and Growth, Institutions and Economic Performance. Tade has a joint appointment in the Department of African American and African Studies.	[email protected]
Philip Pardey Professor	Agricultural Development, Agricultural Policy, Biodiversity & Endangered Species, Biotechnology & Genetic Resources, Economics of Science & Technology, Intellectual Property Rights, Growth & Development	[email protected]
Hikaru Peterson Professor	Sustainable Food Systems, Consumer Economics, Food Marketing	[email protected]
Jeff Peterson Professor	Water Economics	[email protected]
Stephen Polasky Regents Professor, Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics	Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Economics, Game Theory, Land Economics, Natural Capital, Natural Resource Economics, Sustainability, Water Economics	[email protected]
D Wynn Richardson Extension Professor	Farm management, production agriculture, software development	[email protected]
Joseph Ritter Professor	Labor economics, public policy.	[email protected]
C Ford Runge Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law	Environmental Economics, Food Security, Trade	[email protected]
Pamela Smith Associate Professor	International Economics; Applied Econometrics; Development Economics	[email protected]
Rodney Smith Professor	Government regulation and policy, economic development and growth, resource economics, mechanism design theory, production economics	[email protected]
Jeffrey Stamp Teaching Professor	Creativity, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Pedagogy, Opportunity Recognition, Design Thinking.	[email protected]
Dick Todd Adjunct Professor		[email protected]
Ed Usset Extension Professor	Commodity Marketing, Crop Marketing, Futures & Options Marketing	[email protected]
Pauline Van Nurden Associate Extension Professor	Farm financial management, risk management education, agricultural finance	[email protected]
Chengyan Yue Professor	Behavioral Economics, Consumer Economics, Trade	[email protected]

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