Economics Faculty

Tenure Track Faculty

James A. Morris Professor of Economics
Harvard University, 1987
Academic Research Interests:  Wage structure, income inequality, economics demography
E-mail:  blackbrn@moore.sc.edu

Janice Boucher Breuer, Ph.D. 
University of North Carolina, 1987
Academic Research Interests:  International economics, econometrics, price and wage determination
E-mail:  boucher@moore.sc.edu

Henry W. Chappell, Ph.D. 
Dewey H. Johnson Professor of Economics
Yale University, 1979
Academic Research Interests:  Public choice, voting behavior, macroeconomics policy
E-mail:  chappell@moore.sc.edu 

Stephen R. Finger, Ph.D. 
Duke University, 2008
Academic Research Interests:  Industrial organization, economics of innovation, applied microeconomics
E-mail:  stephen.finger@moore.sc.edu

Jacob Goldston
Brown University, 2013
Academic Research Interests:  Development economics, political economy, applied microeconomics
E-mail:  jacob.goldston@moore.sc.edu

William R. Hauk, Jr., Ph.D. 
Stanford University, 2005
Academic Research Interests:  International trade, political economics, economic growth, applied econometrics
E-mail:  hauk@moore.sc.edu

Christian Jensen, Ph.D. 
Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
Academic Research Interests:  Macro and monetary economics, dynamic policy issues
E-mail:  cjensen@moore.sc.edu

Randolph C. Martin, Ph.D. 
Washington University, 1971
Academic Research Interests:  Regional and urban economics, economic modeling
E-mail:  rmartin@moore.sc.edu

Alexander Matros, Ph.D.
Stockholm School of Economics, 2001
Academic Research Interests:  Evolutionary, experimental, game theory, contests, and industrial organization.
E-Mail:  alexander.matros@moore.sc.edu

John McDermott, Ph.D. 
Department Chair
Brown University, 1979
Academic Research Interests:  International economics, growth theory
E-mail:  dynamo@moore.sc.edu

Melayne Morgan McInnes, Ph.D. 
Yale University, 1998
Academic Research Interests:  Economics of health care industry, medical malpractice, economic burden of smoking and obesity, experimental economics, and economics of insurance
E-mail:  mcinnes@moore.sc.edu

Chun-Hui Miao, Ph.D. 
Princeton University, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Industrial organization, corporate finance and behavior economics
E-mail:  miao@moore.sc.edu

Jason Murray, Ph.D. 
University of California, San Diego, 2007
Academic Research Interests:  Natural resource economics, environmental economics, fishery management, marine conservation economics, ecological economics, economic growth
E-mail:  jhmurray@moore.sc.edu

Orgül Demet Öztürk, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Labor economics, public economics, applied microeconomics
E-mail:  odozturk@moore.sc.edu

Doug Woodward, Ph.D. 
Director of Division of Research
University of Texas-Austin, 1986
Academic Research Interests:  Regional economics, international economics
E-mail:  woodward@moore.sc.edu

Research Associate Professor Faculty

Paulo Guimaraes, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, 1992
Academic Research Interests:  Industrial economics, regional economics, applied econometrics
E-mail:  guimaraes@moore.sc.edu 

Clinical Track Faculty

Chandini Sankaran Nixon, Ph.D. 
Kansas State University, 2005
Academic Research Interests:  Economic development particularly international and sustainable development 
E-mail:  chandini.sankaran@moore.sc.edu

Lecturer Faculty

John Gordanier, Ph.D. 
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Academic Research Interests:  Labor economics, microeconomic theory, applied microeconomics
E-mail:  jgordanier@moore.sc.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Joseph B. Dance Jr., MBA
University of South Carolina, 1992
B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1974
E-mail:  dancejoe@mailbox.sc.edu

Alston Flynn Lippert, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, 1990  
B.S., College of Charleston, 1986

Stephen P. Slice, MBA
University of South Carolina, 1990
M.S., Applied and Agricultural Economics,Clemson University, 1986
Email:  slices@mailbox.sc.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Robert J. Carlsson, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, 1964
Academic Research Interests:  Applied microeconomics
E-mail:  carlsson@moore.sc.edu

Elchanan Cohn, Ph.D.
Iowa State University, 1968
Academic Research Interests:  Human capital, education, public finance
E-mail:  feu00004@moore.sc.edu

B. F. Kiker, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 1965
Academic Research Interests:  Human capital, economic theory
E-mail:  kikerbf@moore.sc.edu

W. Pierce Liles, Ph.D.
University of South Carolina, 1972
E-mail:  lilesp@moore.sc.edu

William Phillips, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980
Academic Research Interests:  Economic history, international trade
E-mail:  wmphllps@moore.sc.edu

Ronald P. Wilder, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University, 1969
Academic Research Interests:  Health economics, forensic economics, regulation and deregulation
E-mail:  wilder@moore.sc.edu