2011-12 Job Market Candidates
Placement Director: Dr. Martha Starr (202-885-3747, mstarr@american.edu)
Marya Hillesland
Email: marya.hillesland@american.edu
Dissertation: “Gender-based Differences in Risk Behavior and Asset Allocation Decisions in Ghana and Malawi”
Advisors: Caren Grown (chair), Cheryl Doss (Yale University), Maria S. Floro, Amos Golan
Research fields: Gender analysis in economics, household models, intra-household allocation, development, risk, social economics, microeconomic behavior, institutions, political economy
Teaching fields: Gender analysis in economics, development, political economy, microeconomics, history of economic thought from a feminist perspective, microeconomic behavior, institutions, political economy, econometrics
Relevant professional experience: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Erin Hinchey
Email: Erin.E.Hinchey@gmail.com
Dissertation: “The Gendered Impact of Trade Liberalization in the United States: 1990 to 2005”
Advisors: Kara Reynolds (chair), Amos Golan, Caren Grown
Research fields: International trade, gender, development
Teaching fields: Macro, micro, international trade, development, gender
Relevant professional experience: Adjunct instructor, American University; Summer Associate, Congressional Budget Office
Francois Pazisnewende Kabore
Email: fk7625a@american.edu
Dissertation: “Patent Valuation, International Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation”
Advisors: Walter Park (chair), Kara Reynolds, Robert Feinberg
Research fields: Development Economics, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trade, Growth, Poverty
Teaching fields: Development Economics, Sustainable Development, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Political Economy, International Economics, Economic Statistics
Relevant professional experience: World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Nick Kahn
Email: nick.kahn@american.edu
Dissertation: “Measuring Racial Disparities in Child Welfare Services”
Advisors: Mary Hansen (chair), Kara Reynolds, Robert Feinberg
Research fields: Labor, Applied Microeconomics, Health, Social Policy
Teaching fields: Microeconomics, Labor, Applied Econometrics, Statistics
Relevant professional experience: Instructor, Principles of Microeconomics, Dept. of Economics, American University.
Instructor, Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis II, Dept. Public Administration and Policy, American University
Amin Mohseni
Email: aminmohseni@gmail.com
Dissertation: “Three Essays in Social Economics” (including social effects of financial crises, macroeconomic determinants of suicide, and notions of justice in Islamic economic thought)
Advisors: Martha Starr (chair), John Willoughby, Jon Wisman
Research fields: Heterodox Economics, Development Macroeconomics, Poverty, Institutional Economics, Economies of the Middle East.
Teaching fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Relevant professional experience: Adjunct faculty (American University, Trinity University, and University of District of Columbia), Energy Consultant (World Bank), Electricity Demand Forecasting (Pepco Holdings Inc), Telecommunication Engineer (Texas Instruments)
Anjan Panday
Email: anjanpanday@gmail.com
Dissertation: “Exchange rate misalignment, exchange market pressure and monetary policy, and investigating OCA feasibility and business cycle synchronization in Nepal and India”
Advisors: Ellen E. Meade (Federal Reserve Board), Robert A. Blecker, Simon Sheng
Research fields: International finance, monetary economics, applied macroeconomics
Teaching fields: Macroeconomics, international
Relevant professional experience: Six-plus years in trade finance
Julie Routzahn – already placed
Email: jroutzahn@mcdaniel.edu
Dissertation: “Gender Differences in Attitudes towards Credit, Transaction Costs, and the Household Balance Sheet”
Advisors: Mary Hansen (chair), Robert Feinberg, Thomas Husted
Research fields: Gender, Household Finance, Consumer Behavior
Teaching fields: Gender, Corporate Finance, Micro, Accounting
Relevant professional experience: Assistant Professor of Economics and Business Administration (McDaniel College, Westminster, MD)
Emcet O. Tas
Email: emcet.tas@american.edu
Dissertation: “Q-squared Analysis of Poverty Dynamics”
Advisors: Maria Floro (chair), Caren Grown, Amos Golan
Research fields: Development, international, poverty, social policy, growth, political economy, gender
Teaching fields: Development, microeconomics, international trade, political economy
Relevant professional experience: World Bank (various positions in Poverty Reduction, International Trade and Social Development departments); Global Development Network; American University (adjunct instructor)
Brandon Tracy
Email address: bst73@yahoo.com
Dissertation title: Exploiting a negative supply shock to understand better macroeconomic adjustments in the Brazilian economy
Advisors: Larry Sawers, Robert Feinberg, Subodh Mathur, Simon Sheng
Research fields: Public economics, labor, development, energy economics, natural resource economics
Teaching fields: Micro, macro, econometrics, labor, international, natural resources
Relevant professional experience: World Bank, Millennium Challenge Corporation, U.S. and international engineering experience in numerous industries.