Faculty

Faculty

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Anna Alberini

Anna Alberini

Professor

email: aalberin@umd.edu | room: SYM 2110 | Phone: 301.405.1267

  • Environmental Economics
  • Energy Economics
  • Econometrics and Statistics
James Archsmith

James Archsmith

Assistant Professor 

email: archsmit@umd.edu | room: SYM 2214 | phone: 301.405.1293

  • Energy Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Resource Economics
Erich Battistin

Erich Battistin

Professor

email: ebattist@umd.edu | room: SYM 2212 | phone: 301.405.8122

 

  • Applied Micro-econometrics and Causality
  • Economics of Education
  • Measurement of Welfare and Social Inequalities
  • Design and Evaluation of Public Interventions
Jing Cai

Jing Cai

Associate Professor

email: cai516@umd.edu | room: SYM 2122 | phone: 301.405.1388

  • Development Economics
  • Household Finance

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers

Professor

email: rchamber@umd.edu | room: SYM 2105 | Phone: 301.405.1266

 

  • Production Theory
  • Public Economics
  • Uncertainty
  • Financial Economics
  • Trade
  • Microeconomic Theory
Becky Epanchin-Niell

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell

Associate Professor

email: epanchin@umd.edu | room: SYM 2213 | Phone: 301.405.1293

  • Natural Resource Economics
  • Invasive Species Management
  • Species and Ecosystem Conservation
  • Spatial Resource Management
Jorge Holzer

Jorge Holzer

Associate Professor

email: jholzer@umd.edu | room: SYM 2117 | phone: 301.405.1918

  • Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
  • Economics of Uncertainty
  • Marine Resource Economics
Dale Johnson

Dale Johnson

Farm Management Specialist

email: dmj@umd.edu | room: SYM 2112A | Phone: 301.405.1275

  • Farm & Financial Management
  • Computer Use in Agriculture
  • International Extension
Kenneth L. Leonard

Kenneth L. Leonard

Professor

email: kenneth@umd.edu | room: SYM 2116B | Phone: 301.405.8589

  • Development Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Choice Under Uncertainty
  • Social Learning
  • Rural Africa
Erik Lichtenberg

Erik Lichtenberg

Professor

email: elichten@umd.edu | room: SYM 2102 | phone: 301.405.1279

  • Agriculture and Environment
  • Land Use
  • Natural Resource Economics
Joshua Linn

Joshua Linn

Professor

email: linn@umd.edu | room: SYM 2110 | phone: 301.405.9881

  • Environmental Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Applied Econometrics
Lori Lynch

Lori Lynch

Professor and Chair

email: llynch@umd.edu | room: SYM 2123 | phone: 301.405.1264

  • Environmental and Agricultural Policy
David Newburn

David Newburn

Associate Professor

email: dnewburn@umd.edu | room: SYM 2222A | phone: 301.405.8042

  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Land Economics
  • Water Resource Economics
  • Spatial Modeling
 Lars Olson

Lars Olson

Professor

email: ljolson@umd.edu | room: SYM 2113 | phone: 301.405.7180

  • Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
  • Economics of Invasive Species
  • Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics
  • Economics of Uncertainty
Louis Preonas

Louis Preonas 

Assistant Professor

email: lpreonas@umd.edu | room: SYM 2104 | phone: 301.405.0017

  • Energy Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Development Economics
M. R. Sharan

M. R. Sharan

Assistant Professor 

email: sharan@umd.edu | room: SYM 2116A | phone: 301.405.1293

  • Development Economics
  • Political Economy
Cory B. Smith

Cory B. Smith

Assistant Professor 

email: cbsmith@umd.edu | room: SYM 2112B | phone: 301.405.1293

  • Development
  • Political Economy
  • Economic History
Neslihan Uler

Neslihan Uler

Assistant Professor

email: neslihan@umd.edu | room: SYM 2106 | phone: 301.405.1273

  • Public Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Environmental Economics
Rob Williams

Roberton C. Williams III

Professor

email: roberton@umd.edu | room: SYM 2126 | phone: 301.405.1284

  • Public Economics
  • Environmental Economics
  • Microeconomic Theory

Emeritus

     
Nancy Bockstael
Nancy Bockstael
Professor Emeritus, Retired
Environmental Valuation, Land Use and the Environment

nancyb@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

 
Jarvis Cain
Professor Emeritus, Retired

jcain2@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Jim Hanson
Jim Hanson 
Professor Emeritus, Retired 

Agricultural Extension

jhanson1@umd.edu 

(301) 405-1293

 
Ian Hardie
Professor Emeritus, Retired
Forestry Economics, Land Use

ihardie@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Darrell Hueth
Darrell Hueth
Professor Emeritus, Retired
Uniandes Program, Ag-related Environmental Problems, Policy & Project Evaluation

dhueth@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Richard Just
Richard Just
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Retired
Welfare Economics, Risk and Production, Quantitative Policy Analysis, Technology Adoption, Management of Public Research, Pesticide Regulation

rjust@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Howard Leathers
Howard Leathers
Associate Professor Emeritus, Retired

 

Agricultural Policy, Marketing & Production, World Food Issues

howardl@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Douglas Lipton
Douglas Lipton
Associate Professor Emeritus, Retired
Fisheries, Seafood, Marine Recreation, Non-Market Valuation

dlipton@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall
301-405-1280

Ted McConnell
Kenneth E. (Ted) McConnell
Professor Emeritus, Retired
Environmental and Resource Economics

tmcconn@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Marc Nerlove
Marc Nerlove
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Retired
Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Likelihood Inference in Econometrics, Agricultural Development and Growth

mnerlove@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Ivar Strand
Ivar Strand
Professor Emeritus, Retired
Natural Resource Economics, Fisheries

ivars@umd.edu

2200 Symons Hall

Professional Track

     
Paul Goeringer

Paul Goeringer
Senior Faculty Specialist

Agricultural Law, Crop Insurance and Risk Management Issues

AREC 430 - Introduction to Agriculture and Natural Resource Law

lgoering@umd.edu

3204 Symons Hall

301-405-3541

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Steve Jaffee
Lecturer

AREC 345 - Global Poverty and Economic Development

sjaffee@umd.edu

2116B Symons Hall

301-405-1295

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James MacDonald

James MacDonald
Research Professor

AREC 210 - The Food Chain: What Happens As Your Food Goes From Farm to Table
AREC 427 - Commodity Pricing and Markets
AREC 433 - Food and Agricultural Policy

jmacdon2@umd.edu

2216 Symons Hall

301-405-3647

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Thanicha Ruangmas

Thanicha Ruangmas
Assistant Clinical Professor
First-Year Innovation and Research Center (FIRE)

ruangmas@umd.edu

2209 Symons Hall

301-405-5849

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Maria Soppelsa

Maria Soppelsa
Lecturer and Assistant Director

AREC Undergraduate Program
AREC 240 - Introduction to Economics and the Environment

AREC 250 - Elements of Agricultural and Resource Economics

soppelsa@umd.edu

2119B Symons Hall

301-405-1291

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Elizabeth Thilmany

Elizabeth Thilmany
Faculty Specialist

Farm Succession Planning, Renewable Energy Leasing, and Developing Legal Tools in Hemp Production

thilmany@umd.edu

3200C Symons Hall

301-405-9576

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Adjunct & Affiliate

     
Maureen Cropper

Maureen Cropper
Affiliated Faculty

Maureen Cropper is Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park.

mcropper@econ.umd.edu

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Taryn Devereux

Taryn Devereux
Senior Faculty Specialist

Taryn Devereux is a Senior Faculty Specialist with the Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park.

taryndev@umd.edu

Shannon Dill

Shannon P. Dill
Affiliate Principal Agent

Shannon Dill is the Agriculture and Food Systems Extension Educator for the University of Maryland Extension in Talbot County.

sdill@umd.edu

Mary Zaki

Mary Zaki
Affiliated Faculty

Mary Zaki is a Research Economist at the Center for Financial Research within the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in Washington, D.C.

mzaki@umd.edu

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