Dr. Paul Christensen, Associate Professor of Economics

Office: 100a Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-6024
ecoppc@hofstra.edu
Specialization: History of Economic Theory, Natural Resources and Evolution of Technology, Evolutionary and Ecological Economics.

Dr. Gregory DeFreitas, Professor of Economics, Home Page

Office: 100d Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5040
ecoged@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Labor Economics, Research Methods.

Gregory DeFreitas is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Labor Studies Degree Program at Hofstra. He is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy. Before joining Hofstra's faculty, he taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, the University of Toronto, and Cambridge University. He was educated at Stanford, Cambridge, and Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. Dr. DeFreitas has written widely on job and pay trends, the economics of immigration, earnings inequality, youth unemployment and the New York City economy. And he has testified on these issues before Congressional committees and the New York City Council. He is currently completing a new edition of his award-winning book, "Inequality At Work." He is also the founding editor of the "Regional Labor Review," which focuses on current employment issues in the New York Metropolitan Area.

Dr. Robert Guttmann (Department Chair), Professor of Economics, Home Page

Office: 200d Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5292
ecorpg@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Money and Banking, International Trade and Finance, European Economic Integration, History of Economic Thought.

Robert Guttmann, Professor of Economics and currently also chair of the Department of Economics and Geography at Hofstra University, studied in Vienna (Austria) and the University of Wisconsin before obtaining his Ph.D. in London in 1979. He won "Distinguished Teacher of the Year" awards at Hofstra in 1989 and 2004. He teaches International Economics, Monetary Economics, Economic Integration in the European Union, and Public Finance. Since 1992, he has also been Visiting Professor at the Université Paris-Nord. Widely published in monetary theory as well as money and banking, his latest book is "Cybercash: The Coming Era of Electronic Money" (Palgrave, 2003).

Dr. Conrad Herold, Associate Professor of Economics

Office: 0113 Roosevelt Hall
Phone: (516) 463-6449
Conrad.Herold@Hofstra.edu
Specialization: Latin American Economics, Development Economics, Marxian Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic History, International Political Economy.

Conrad Herold received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in the social and political determinants of the evolution of economic theory and policy. He has completed research on the Brazilian debt crisis of the 1980s, on the rise of neoliberal economics in Latin America, and more recently on the political economy of financial liberalization in Argentina and elsewhere. He has also recently completed a project on the emergence of money in the 12th century. Dr. Herold teaches courses on contemporary Latin American macroeconomics and political economy, on the political economy of globalization, and on Marxian economics. His forthcoming book, "Financial Liberalization as Class Struggle," will be published by Pluto Press of London. Dr. Herold grew up in Lima, Peru.

Dr. Irwin Kellner, Weller Distinguished Chair of Economics

Office: 225 Business Development Center
Phone: (516) 463-9938
bdcilk@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Macroeconomics, Forecasting, Financial Markets, Public Policy, Economic Theory. Author of the "Hofstra University Economic Report."

Dr. Rachel Kreier, Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: 100a Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5659
ecorek@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Health Economics, Welfare Economics, Applied Econometrics.

Rachel Kreier returned to graduate school in 1999 after several decades working for a health rights organization, a public employees union, and as an editor and journalist specializing in the health care industry. She joined the Hofstra faculty in 2004. She is a health economist with a particular interest in disparities in health outcomes and health care utilization across economic and demographic groups. She lives in Port Jefferson with her husband Steve and their two teenaged sons, Simon and Michael.

Dr. Roberto Mazzoleni, Associate Professor of Economics

Office: 200e Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5593
ecorzm@mail1.hofstra.edu
Specialization: Industrial Organization, Economics of Institutions and Contracts, Economics of Technical Change.

Roberto Mazzoleni received his doctoral degree in Economics at Stanford University. Before joining Hofstra in 1999, he held positions at Columbia University, George Mason University and the University of Vermont. In addition to the introductory courses in economics, he teaches courses in intermediate microeconomics, law and economics, the economics of technical change, industrial economics, and government and business. He has a part-time teaching appointment at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he teaches a course on science, technology, and economic growth. Roberto's research interests focus on processes of technological and institutional change. He is currently involved in an international research project concerned with the process of catch-up by developing economies. His primary objective is to investigate the history of the contributions made by universities and other institutions of higher education to industrial development. In other recent research, he has been concerned with the economic analysis of patents and their effects on the transfer of technology from universities to industry.

Dr. Fatemeh Moghadam, Professor of Economics

Office: 100b Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5598
ecofzm@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Development, International, Middle East Studies.

Fatemeh Moghadam teaches courses on Economic Development, Women and Development in the Middle East, Economic Development in the Middle East, and International Economics. She has published extensively on economic history, agricultural development, and women and development, including a book, "From Land Reform to The Revolution: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Iran (1960-1979)" (Tauris Academic Studies, London, February 1996). Her research work include several field studies in Iran. Her most recent publications include entries in "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History" (New York, 2003), as well as articles on women and work in Iran.

Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Associate Professor of Geography, Home Page

Office: 200a Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5765
ecojpr@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Transport and Commercial Geography, Global Economy, Geographic Information Systems, East and Southeast Asia.

Jean-Paul Rodrigue received a Ph.D. in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal in 1994. Dr. Rodrigue's research activities cover the fields of transport and economic geography, Geographic Information Systems and multimedia tools for education. His regional interests involve East and Southeast Asia (Pacific Asia), notably newly industrialized countries and China, as well as North America. Specific topics investigated by Dr. Rodrigue concern transport systems and logistics, global production networks, transport corridors, urban regions, economic integration, international trade and regional development. He currently sits on the editorial board of the "Journal of Transport Geography" and was chair of the Transport Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (2004-2006).

Dr. Grant Saff, Associate Professor of Geography, Home Page

Office: 200b Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5596
ecogrs@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Saff received his Ph.D. in urban planning from Rutgers University in 1996. He also holds a master's degree in development planning from the University of the Witwatersrand and a B.A. (Hons), HDE., from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Saff's research interests range broadly across urban planning, and urban, political and economic geography. He has published widely on urban issues, particularly relating to segregation and economic development policies, in South Africa and the United States. Dr. Saff's current research is on urban redevelopment and urban economic change in New Jersey, and patterns of residential exclusion in Cape Town, South Africa, and suburbs in the U.S. Dr. Saff is a member of the editorial board of "SAFUNDI" the Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies.

Dr. Bhaswati Sengupta, Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: 200d Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5595
Bhaswati.Sengupta@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Economic Development, Economics of Migration, Real Options in Labor Economics.

Bonu Sengupta received her doctoral degree in Economics from North Carolina State University in 2003. Before joining the faculty at Hofstra, she held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Grinnell College, Iowa. Currently, she is the economist for a project undertaken by the International Labour Office of the United Nations to study the impact of repatriation of Afghan refugees from Iran. Bonu's primary research interest is in the analysis of the decision-making process of migrant workers, and her academic research and fieldwork deal more specifically with undocumented Mexican migration to the U.S. She also works in the field of Real Options and is interested in its unique applications in modeling migration decisions. Her teaching experience lies in the fields of econometrics, statistics, economic development, labor economics and introductory and intermediate micro and macroeconomics.

Dr. James Wiley, Associate Professor of Geography

Office: 100e Barnard
Phone: (516) 463-5642
ecojew@hofstra.edu
Specialization: Economic Geography, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Wiley arrived at Hofstra in 1991, after completing his Ph.D. in geography at Rutgers University, where his research focused on refugee policy development in developing host countries, using Costa Rica as a case study. Since coming to the University, he has developed several new geography courses including regional courses covering Latin America (generally), South America, the Caribbean, and Australia. His research since 1994 has focused upon the impacts of the European Union's banana importation policy on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cape Verde in Africa, and upon the special problems encountered by small island developing countries as they seek to diversify their economies in an era of globalization and neoliberalism.