Our people
Back where she started
Marissa Eckrote, ‘16, is back on campus this fall as an associate lecturer in the Economics Department. “As soon as the opportunity presented itself,” she says, “I knew it was what I wanted to do this year.”
Department Chair
Professor
2102 Wittich Hall
jnunley@uwlax.edu
608.785.5145
Specialty areas:
Labor Economics, Demography, Economics of the Family, and Experimental Economics
John Nunley's office hours
Academic Department Associate
Academic Department Associate
2101 Wittich Hall
csanchez2@uwlax.edu
608.785.8099
Full-time faculty
CBA - Dean
1205 Wittich Hall
tbrooks@uwlax.edu
608.785.5295
Taggert Brooks's office hours
Professor
2132 Wittich Hall
ndutta@uwlax.edu
608.785.5294
Specialty areas:
New Institutional Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, Entrepreneurship and and Economics of Gender
Assistant Visiting Professor
Wittich Hall
meckrote@uwlax.edu
608.785.6866
Specialty areas:
Labor economics, Public economics, Health Economics
Associate Professor
2128 Wittich Hall
lgiddings@uwlax.edu
608.785.5297
Specialty areas:
Labor Economics, Transition Economies, Sports Economics and Economics of the Family with a focus on Same-Sex Households
Professor
2112 Wittich Hall
mhamman@uwlax.edu
608.785.6860
Specialty areas:
Preventive Healthcare, Economics of Retirement
Professor
2140 Wittich Hall
mhaupert@uwlax.edu
608.785.6863
Specialty areas:
economic history, economics of sports and entertainment
Associate Professor
2136 Wittich Hall
ahoffer@uwlax.edu
608.785.5293
Specialty areas:
Political Economy, Sports Economics, Behavioral Economics
Visiting Assistant Prof
2114 Wittich Hall
akidwai@uwlax.edu
608.785.6862
Specialty areas:
Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Economics of Uncertainty
Teaching Professor
2116 Wittich Hall
lmiller2@uwlax.edu
608.785.6865
Assistant Teaching Professor
2126 Wittich Hall
bmurray@uwlax.edu
608.785.5298
Brenda Murray's office hours
Remote office hours offered: Indicate preference for in-person or Zoom in the booking form here: https://brendamurray.youcanbook.me/
Professor
2106 Wittich Hall
jmurray@uwlax.edu
608.785.6828
Specialty areas:
Macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policies, macroeconometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning.
Visit my personal academic page, https://www.murraylax.org, for more information on my research and teaching.
James Murray's office hours
Professor
2102 Wittich Hall
jnunley@uwlax.edu
608.785.5145
Specialty areas:
Labor Economics, Demography, Economics of the Family, and Experimental Economics
John Nunley's office hours
Assistant Teaching Professor
2138 Wittich Hall
sparsons@uwlax.edu
608.785.6864
Associate Professor
2134 Wittich Hall
steimouri@uwlax.edu
608.785.5296
Specialty areas:
International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Macro-econometrics, Monetary Economics
Assistant Professor
2110 Wittich Hall
cvaughn@uwlax.edu
608.785.5140
Cody Vaughn's office hours
Associate Teaching Professor
2108 Wittich Hall
yzang@uwlax.edu
608.785.6925
Yongmin Zang's office hours
Adjunct Faculty
Researcher I
339C Wimberly Hall
lreddinger@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Applied Microeconomic Theory (Decision Theory)
- Managerial and Labor Economics
Researcher I
339A Wimberly Hall
mstyle@uwlax.edu
Specialty areas:
Political Economy, Regional Economic Development, International Trade, and Sports Econ
Emeriti Faculty
Barry Clark
Wahhab Khandker
Elizabeth Knowles
Glenn Knowles
Keith Sherony