Anukriti, Grubb, Regan join the BC economics faculty

Last year's faculty recruitment season was exceedingly successful, with the department filling three positions in an attempt to reduce the pressure on undergraduate enrollments and strengthen the graduate program.

Assistant Prof. S Anukriti joins us from Columbia University, where she received the Ph.D. this year after earning the MA at Delhi School of Economics and the BA at St Stephen's College, University of Delhi. Her interests are in economic development. She has been appointed a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Anukriti looks forward to teaching courses in economic development and the economics of gender this fall.

Assistant Prof. Michael Grubb joins us from the Sloan School at MIT, where he has served as an assistant professor of applied economics since receiving the Ph.D. in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2007. He earned the M.Phil. at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and the BA in management and technology from the University of Pennsylvania. His fields of interest include behavioral industrial organization and applied microeconomic theory. He published "Selling to Overconfident Consumers" in the American Economic Review, 2009, as well as articles in Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

We have also strengthened the ranks of our adjunct faculty with the addition of Adjunct Associate Professor Tracy L. Regan. She received the Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2003, serving on the faculty at University of Miami and University of Arizona. Her research interests lie in labor economics, health and pharmaceutical economics, and industrial organization. Regan has an article forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources, with recent publications in Economic Inquiry, Journal of Population Economics and the International Journal of Industrial Organization. She looks forward to teaching one of the large sections of Principles of Economics and an elective in the economics of wage determination.

26 Jul 2013