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Andrew M. Isserman
Andrew M. Isserman is Professor in the Department of
Agricultural and Consumer Economics, the Department
of Urban and
Regional Planning, and the Institute of Government
and
Public Affairs. He has written extensively on quantitative
methods for analyzing regional economic and
demographic change and related public policy
issues. His research has been funded repeatedly by
the National Science Foundation, as well as the U.S.
Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense,
Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and
Transportation and the Appalachian Regional
Commission. It has contributed to several changes in
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Edward Feser
Edward Feser is
Professor and Interim Head of the Department of
Urban & Regional Planning. His
research focuses the growth, decline, economic
adjustment, and industrial restructuring of cities
and regions and the design and implementation of
economic development policies. His work has been
supported by the National Science Foundation, the
World Bank, the U.S. Economic Development
Administration, the Appalachian Regional Commission,
and the German Marshall Fund of the United States,
as well as multiple state and local agencies. In
2003 he served as Assistant Secretary for Policy,
Research and Strategic Planning in the North
Carolina Department of Commerce. He continues to
work closely with state and local governments on
issues related to his research and acts regularly as
a consultant to the corporate sector, government,
non-profit development agencies, and economic
development planning firms. |
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Joanna P. Ganning
Joanna P. Ganning is a PhD student in the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning. Joanna earned her BS
in Environmental Resource Management at Penn State
University with Honors and Distinction in 2003. She
earned a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning at
Virginia Tech in 2005, with a focus on economic
development. Joanna is currently researching
amenity-based communities in Colorado with Prof.
Courtney Flint. Joanna's dissertation studies the
relationship between regional spatial structure and
regional economics, with a focus on rural
development. Joanna
currently serves as the
President of
Doctoral
Students in Urban Planning (DSUP). |
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Rafael Garduno-Rivera
Rafael Garduno-Rivera is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. His research interests include income and wealth distribution, inequality and poverty, regional economics, trade, and growth theory. He holds a MSc in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics (LSE), a MA in Finance from the Escuela de Graduados en Administración y Dirección de Empresas (EGADE) at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), and a BA in Busines Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He is conducting research with Prof. Kathy Baylis. |
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Timothy Green
Tim Green is a PhD student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He
is conducting research with Prof.
Edward Feser and Prof. Rob Olshansky on the economic effects of natural disasters and economic development planning. He earned a BA from Cornell University in 1998. |
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Yusuke Kuwayama
Yusuke Kuwayama is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. His research interests include environmental and natural resource economics, regional economics, and political economy. He holds a MS in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA in economics from Amherst College. He is conducting research with Prof. Amy Ando.
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Sarah Low
Sarah Low is a PhD student in the Department of
Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Her research
interests include entrepreneurship and innovation as
economic development tools, GIS, and regional and
rural economic/policy analysis. Other recent
research focused developing regional asset
indicators and fiscal impact analysis of job
creation legislation. She holds a MS in
Agricultural Economics from Purdue University and a
BS in Public Service and Administration in
Agriculture from Iowa State University. Sarah grew
up in both rural Scotland and rural east central
Iowa. She worked at the Center for the Study of
Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City,
as a Research Associate prior to joining REAP.
Sarah Low's website |
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Dusan Paredes
Dusan Paredes is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, focusing in
regional economics. His research interests include the relation among
the regional housing market, interregional migration and
regional labor market dynamics and its impact in the regional growth and regional inequality. He earned a MS in Regional Science from Catholic University of the North, Antofagasta, Chile. He is conducting research with Prof. Andrew Isserman. |
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Mallory Rahe
Mallory Rahe is a Masters student in the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning. She earned a BS in
agricultural and consumer economics, focusing on
policy, international trade, and development, and
was awarded the 2006 Warren K. Wessels Achievement
Award by the College of Agriculture, Consumer and
Environmental Sciences. In her masters studies she is focusing on stabilizing rural areas through technology, innovation, and other economic opportunities. |
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Katherine Nesse
Kate Nesse is a PhD student in the Department
of Urban and Regional Planning, studying regional
economics. Her research interests include the
economic effects of educational policy in non-urban
areas and retirement migration and its impact on rural
areas. She earned a BA from the University of Oregon
and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of
Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. |
ALUMNI
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Todd BenDor
Todd BenDor is an assistant
professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Todd BenDor's faculty profile |
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Xia Feng
Xia Feng is an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. |
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Cameron Speir
Cameron Speir is a fisheries economist at National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fisheries - Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Santa Cruz, California.
Cameron
Speir's
staff profile |
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Drake Warren
Drake Warren is a senior staff member at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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Yu Xiao
Yu Xiao is an assistant professor at Texas A&M
University in College Station, Texas. |
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Regional
Economics and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
125 Mumford Hall, MC-710; 1301 Gregory Drive; Urbana, IL 61801-3605
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