Faculty Experts

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Economics
 


        Pinka Chatterji

Pinka Chatterji
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Health economics
Campus phone: (518) 442-4746
Campus email: [email protected]



        Diane Dewar

Diane Dewar
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior


Expert in the following: Health economics; health policy; health system; vulnerable populations; medical technology; aging; end-of-life care; palliative care
Campus phone: (518) 402-0370
Campus email: [email protected]



        Matt Grattan

Matt Grattan
University at Albany


Expert in the following: Workforce Development, economic development, Start-UP NY, business development, community development, business incubation, business acceleration
Campus phone: (518) 956-8177
Campus email: [email protected]



        Chun-Yu Ho

Chun-Yu Ho
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Industrial Organization, Corporate Strategy and Competition, Economic Analysis of Antirust and Regulation, Banking Markets, Economic Development, Chinese Economy.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4768
Campus email: [email protected]



        David Hochfelder

David Hochfelder
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History


Expert in the following: History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
Campus phone: (518) 442-5348
Campus email: [email protected]



        Julia Jennings

Julia Jennings
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology


Expert in the following: human demography (fertility, mortality, and migration) and 19th century Europe (with an emphasis on Scotland); household ecology; historical population change
Campus phone: (518) 442-4703
Campus email: [email protected]



        Michael Jerison

Michael Jerison
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Economics Nobel prize winners; cost benefit analysis and economic impact statements for government funded projects; tax systems and tax reform, flat tax, consumption tax, corporate income tax; price index and measurement of economic welfare; immigration policy; economic theory
Campus phone: (518) 442-4287
Campus email: [email protected]



        Kajal Lahiri

Kajal Lahiri
College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Economic forecasting; applied econometrics; economics of health and disability; New York State economy; New York regional economic trends; economics of energy; transportation economics; energy/gasoline prices
Campus phone: (518) 442-4758
Campus email: [email protected]



        Walter Little

Walter Little
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology


Expert in the following: Cultures; cultural heritage; diversity; economics; indigenous peoples and languages of the Americas; Mesoamerica; Latin America; popular culture; tourism; urban studies.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4718
Campus email: [email protected]



        Michael Malbin

Michael Malbin
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Professor
Department: Political Science


Expert in the following: U.S. politics and elections, campaign finance, and the U.S. Congress
Campus phone: (202) 969-8890
Campus email: [email protected]



        Adrian Masters

Adrian Masters
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Labor economics; macroeconomics; labor market policies; minimum wages; unemployment
Campus phone: (518) 437-4418
Campus email: [email protected]



        David Matkin

David Matkin
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Assistant Professor
Department: Public Administration and Policy


Expert in the following: Public budgeting; state budgets; public pension systems
Campus phone: (518) 442-5279
Campus email: [email protected]



        Maria Pidgeon

Maria Pidgeon
University at Albany


Expert in the following: Entrepreneurship, economic development, Internships, Innovation Hot Spot, business development, community development, business incubation
Campus phone: (518) 956-8216
Campus email: [email protected]



        Loretta Pyles

Loretta Pyles
School of Social Welfare
Professor
Department: Social Welfare


Expert in the following: Economic justice; gender-based violence; disaster and social inequality; community organizing
Campus phone: 442-5152
Campus email: [email protected]



        Feng (Johnson) Qian

Feng (Johnson) Qian
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior


Expert in the following: Comparative effectiveness research; quality of care and patient safety; evaluation of medical technology and digital health; health disparities and practice variation; global health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0325
Campus email: [email protected]



        Kate Strully

Kate Strully
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Sociology


Expert in the following: Health and poverty; low birth weight; health and unemployment
Campus phone: 442-4686
Campus email: [email protected]



        Baris Yörük

Baris Yörük
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Economics


Expert in the following: Public economics; health economics; applied microeconomics; charitable giving; volunteering; non-profit sector; public health; alcohol, tobacco, and substance use control policies
Campus phone: (518) 442-3175
Campus email: [email protected]