Economics and Northwest Indiana

Welcome!

I am the Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University Northwest in the School of Business and Economics in the city of Gary, Indiana. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

My research interests include regional economics, financial economics, the scholarship of teaching & learning, as well as topics in applied microeconomics such as health economics. I am passionate about both teaching and service to the local community. I regularly provides expertise on economic issues for Northwest Indiana, the State and beyond. In the last decade I have appeared hundreds of times in regional, state, national, and international media, and is active on social media. 

I am also the author of  "The Region Economist" blog, which you can subscribe to below!