Core Faculty

Salem Abo-Zaid

Department Chair / Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2498 Email: salem.abozaid@umbc.edu  Location: PUP 337

Research Interests: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy.

Michael Andrews

Associate Professor, Economics

Phone:  410-455-6590   Email:  mandrews@umbc.edu  Location: PUP 327

Research Interests: Economic History, Economics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Applied Micro

Enrico Berkes

Pausch Assistant Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2173 Email: eberkes@umbc.edu  Location: Public Policy 325

Research Interests: Economics of Innovation, Urban Economics and Applied Microeconomics

Maria Bernedo Del Carpio

Associate Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2068     Email: mbernedo@umbc.edu     Location: PUP 332
Research Interests: Environmental, Behavioral, Experimental, and Urban and Regional Economics

Robert Carpenter

Associate Provost / Deputy CIO / Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2160    Email: bobc@umbc.edu  Location: Administration, Room 603

Dennis C. Coates

Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-3243     Email: coates@umbc.edu     Location: PUP 323

Research Interests: Public Choice, Public Finance, Sports Economics.

Nandita Dasgupta

Assistant Teaching Professor

Phone: 410-455-4951     Email: nandita@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 340

MaryAnn Davenport

Assistant Teaching Professor

Phone: 410-455-2177      Email: mdaven@umbc.edu    Location: PUP 326

Lisa M. Dickson

Associate Professor, Economics / Graduate Program Director, M.A. Economic Policy Analysis

Phone: 410-455-2176      Email: ldickson@umbc.edu     Location: PUP 322

Research Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Econometrics.

Oleg Firsin

Assistant Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2171     Email: ofirsin@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 335

Research Interests: Int’l Trade, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics.

Anderson Frailey

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Economics

Phone: 410-455-6593    Email: bf48170@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 331

Thomas H. Gindling

Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-3629     Email: tgindlin@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 330

Research Interests: Economic Development.

Douglas J. Lamdin

Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2672     Email: lamdin@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 329 

Research Interests: Financial Economics, Public Finance, Financial Literacy.

Bing Ma

Assistant Teaching Professor

Phone: 410-455-8039        Email: bingma@umbc.edu    Location: PUP 339

Suzann Medicus

Director of Accounting Program / Assistant Teaching Professor

Phone: 410-455-2178      Email: medicus@umbc.edu     Location: PUP 342

David F. Mitch

Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2157     Email: mitch@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 328

Research Interests: American and European Economic History

Se Mi Park

Assistant Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2174     Email: smpark@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 333

Research Interests: International Trade, Institutional Economics, Economic Development.

Luigi Pollio

Assistant Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-xxxx  Email: lpollio1@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 344

Research Interests:   Macroeconomics, Firm Dynamics, Corporate Finance

Morgan J. Rose

Associate Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-8485     Email: mrose@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 341

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Industrial Organization, Financial Institutions.

Randolph Scott

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Accounting

Phone: 410-455-2160   Email: rcscott@umbc.edu  Location: PUP 342

Hasan Shahid

Assistant Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2170    Email: hshahid@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 340

Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics

Mark Thomas

Assistant Teaching Professor

Phone: 410-455-6593     Email: mathomas@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 328 

Christelle K. Viauroux

Associate Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-3117     Email: ckviauro@umbc.edu   Location: PUP 336

Research Interests: Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Structural Applied Microeconomics, Matching Theory.

Chunming Yuan

Associate Professor, Economics

Phone: 410-455-2314      Email: cmyuan@umbc.edu     Location: PUP 324

Research Interests: International Economics/Finance, Financial Economics, Econometrics.