Graduate Faculty
Kathleen Bell, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, 1997), Associate Professor. Environmental Economics, land economics, spatial economics, regional and public economics.
Hsiang-Tai Cheng, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1985), Associate Professor. Marketing, food demand, econometrics.
Todd Gabe, Ph.D. (Ohio State University, 1999), Associate Professor. Regional and community economic development, public finance.
Gary L. Hunt, Ph.D. (University of Colorado-Boulder, 1984), Professor. Demographic and spatial economics, econometrics, mathematical modeling.
James McConnon, Ph.D. (Iowa State University, 1989), Associate Professor. Regional and community economic development, innovation, small business management.
Stephen Reiling, Ph.D. (Oregon State University, 1976), Professor. Recreation economics, non-market valuation, economic impact, policies affecting rural Maine.
Jonathan Rubin, Ph.D. (University of California-Davis, 1993), Professor. Environmental regulation and design, economics of alternative transportation fuels and vehicles, economics of greenhouse gas reductions.
Linda Silka, Ph.D. (University of Kansas, 1978, Professor and Director, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Research partnerships, research ethics, grant writing, program evaluation, community-university partnerships.
Mario Teisl, (Ph.D. (University of Maryland, 1997), Professor. Information economics, food safety, environmental and social marketing, environmental economics.
Philip Trostel, Ph.D. (Texas A & M University, 1991), Professor. Human capital and savings, public economics, labor economics.
Sharon Wagner, Ph.D. Engineering & Public Policy (Carnegie Mellon, 2011), Research: Energy Economics, Environmental Impacts of Electricity Generation, Energy Storage, and Renewable Energy Policy
Tim Waring, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis, 2010), Assistant Professor. Sustainability, human cooperation, human cultural evolution, evolutionary ecology.