Faculty, staff and alumni gathered on the Brighton campus on April 28 to honor Frank Gollop, who is retiring from the faculty this semester after 35 years of service to Boston College. At the party, Interim Provost Joe Quinn announced that in recognition of his contributions, Gollop has been granted Emeritus status, only the third member of the department to receive such a signal honor.
After receiving the A.B. in economics and philosophy at the University of Santa Clara, Gollop earned the Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1974, advised by Dale Jorgensen, and subsequently taught at the University of Wisconsin. He joined the BC economics department in 1979 as an Associate Professor, and was promoted to Professor in 1985.
Frank Gollop's professional career has been centered on industrial organization, a field in which he published many articles, received a number of Federal grants and presented Congressional testimony on the measurement of productivity. In the department, Frank advised the Ph.D. dissertations of many of our most successful alumni. His RePEc genealogy listing lists ten of his students. In recent years, Frank has ably served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Chair, presiding over the unprecedented increase in the number of undergraduate majors, minors and CSOM concentrators.
Our congratulations to Prof. Gollop on his successful career and his well-deserved Emeritus status. He will be missed!
7 May 2014