12 faculty and 30 courses in Economics at Sewanee: The University of the South.
- E. Douglas Williams, Frank W. Wilson Professor of Economics h-index 5
Notable: “Life cycle assessment of MycoWorks’ Reishi™: the first low-carbon and biodegradable alternative leather” (2022) · 59 citations
- Aaron A. Elrod, Professor of Economics h-index 5
Environmental and natural resource economics, with secondary fields in public economics and industrial organization. Elrod’s current research focuses on the effect of environmental regulation on the product-mix decisions of U.S. ma
Notable: “The effect of environmental regulation on plant-level product mix: A study of EPA's Cluster Rule” (2017) · 69 citations
- Kartik Misra, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 5
Development economics, applied microeconomics and political economy. Kartik’s research examines the role of historical institutions, economic inequality, and concentration of political power on the choice and impact of governm
Notable: “Nonlocal labeling of paths in a single-photon interferometer” (2005) · 18 citations
- Brad Sturgill, Chair and Associate Professor of Economics h-index 4
Economic growth and macroeconomics. Sturgill’s research interests are in the areas of economic growth and development. His current focus is the theoretical and empirical study of factor eliminating technological progress. This inc
Notable: “The relationship between factor shares and economic development” (2012) · 25 citations
- Tao Song, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 3
Es on the socio-economic integration of immigrants and the skill complementarity between immigrants and natives. His recent publications include a study on the educational assimilation of immigrants, a paper exploring the urban residential
Notable: “Intermarriage and Socioeconomic Integration” (2015) · 34 citations
- Katherine C. Theyson, Professor of Economics and Assistant Dean of the College h-index 3
Notable: “Development and income inequality: A new specification of the Kuznets hypothesis” (2015) · 28 citations
- Marc St-Pierre, Professor of Economics h-index 2
General Equilibrium Decision and Game Theory Inequality Human Capital and Economic Growth In This Section Aaron A. Elrod Beth Pride Blythe Marc St-Pierre Katherine C. Theyson E. Douglas Williams Tao Song Brad Sturgill Lhakpa Sherpa Kartik M
Notable: “Unequal opportunities and human capital formation” (2007) · 61 citations
- Huarui Jing, Assistant Professor of Finance h-index 1
In Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics, Macro Finance, and Machine Learning in Finance. She is currently working on machine learning based asset pricing projects: distributional robust optimization (DRO) in asset pricing model, robust
Notable: “High-Dimensional Distributionally Robust Mean-Variance Efficient Portfolio Selection” (2023) · 4 citations
- Lhakpa Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 1
Es on studying aggregate effects of existing policies regarding education finance. He is also interested in studying structural changes in the economy, especially as they pertain to changes in the demand and supply of labor across different
Notable: “Tax reforms and elasticity of taxable income: estimation using the current population survey” (2023) · 1 citations
- Beth Pride Blythe, Teaching Professor of Economics
Agricultural Economics Natural Resource Economics In This Section Aaron A. Elrod Beth Pride Blythe Marc St-Pierre Katherine C. Theyson E. Douglas Williams Tao Song Brad Sturgill Lhakpa Sherpa Kartik Misra Patten Priestley Mahler In This Sec
- Linxian (Lilian) Huang, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance
Financial economics about FinTech innovation, with secondary fields in behavior economics and MicroFinance. Lilian's job market paper focuses on the impact of technology-based lending growth on bank profitability from a cross-country per
- Patten Priestley Mahler, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics
Es on education policy, including identifying strategies for retaining effective teachers in high-need schools and addressing the root problems of “childcare deserts.” She also researches methods to enhance her teaching, such as
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.