Initial Job Placements of WVU PhD Recipients in
Economics
Year indicates year during which Ph.D. dissertation was successfully
defended. Short-term visiting or adjunct
positions are ignored in determining “initial” placements once a permanent
position is obtained.
2008
Miki Brunyer*:
Saint John’s University (Collegeville,
MN), Assistant Professor
Leslie Dunn: Washington
and Jefferson College
(Washington, PA), Assistant Professor
Robert Dunn: Washington
and Jefferson College
(Washington, PA), Assistant Professor
Christine Harrington: State University of New York
at Oneonta (Oneonta, NY), Assistant Professor
Carrie Kerekes:
Florida Gulf
Coast University
(Fort Myers, FL), Assistant Professor
Sudeshna Pal:
Georgia College and State
University (Milledgeville, GA), Assistant Professor
Julia Popova: New York ISO
(Albany, NY),
Economist
Justin Ross: Indiana
University (Bloomington, IN),
Assistant Professor
Jawad Salimi*: Pacific Lutheran
University (Tacoma, WA),
Assistant Professor
Claudia Williamson: Appalachian State
University (Boone, NC),
Assistant Professor
* Ph.D.
expected Fall 2008
2007
Joshua Hall: Beloit
College (Beloit, WI),
Assistant Professor
Gregory Randolph: Southern New Hampshire University
(Manchester, NH), Assistant Professor.
Chaiwuth Tangsomchai: Chiang
Mai University
(Chiang Mai, Thailand), Lecturer.
Priscilla (Fang) Wang: Central Washington
University (Ellensburg, WA),
Assistant Professor
Javed Younas: Central
Michigan University
(Mount Pleasant, MI), Visiting Assistant Professor
2006
Nathan Ashby: University
of Texas at El
Paso (El Paso, TX), Assistant Professor
Frank Goetzke:
University of Louisville (Louisville, KY),
Assistant Professor
Jorge Guillen:
BBVA Bank (Lima, Peru), Assistant Manager Economic
Research Department
Lillian Kamal: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL),
Lecturer
Saurav Roychoudhury: Capital
University (Columbus, OH),
Assistant Professor
Aziz Saglam: University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH),
Visiting Assistant Professor
Pavel Yakovlev: Duquesne
University (Pittsburgh, PA),
Assistant Professor
2005
Gi-Don An: The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics
and Trade (Seoul, Republic of Korea),
Associate Research Fellow.
Christiadi: University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA),
Regional Economic Analyst
Tuncer Gocmen: Shepherd
University (Shepherdstown, WV),
Assistant Professor
Dayong Huang:
Gustavus
Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN),
Assistant Professor
King, Kerry: Penn
State University
at Erie (Erie,
PA), Assistant Professor
Serhiy Kotsan: Boston Pacific Company, Inc. (Washington, DC),
Project Director
Hari Luitel: St.
Cloud State University (St. Cloud, MN),
Assistant Professor
Arsen Melkumian: Western Illinois University
(Macon, IL),
Assistant Professor
Todd Nesbit: Penn State University at Erie (Erie,
PA), Assistant Professor
Suryadipta Roy:
Lawrence University (Appleton, WI),
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ryo Takashima: Washington
and Jefferson College
(Washington, PA), Assistant Professor
2004
Yousam Choi: Office of the Prime Minister (Seoul, Republic
of Korea), Financial Supervisory Commission
Jordan Huang: Utica
College (Utica, NY), Assistant
Professor
Ou Hu: Youngstown State University
(Youngstown, OH), Assistant Professor
Kamol Khaemasunun: Mahidol University
(Bangkok, Thailand), Lecturer
Jonathan Munemo: The World Bank (Washington, DC),
Trade Economist
Brian Osoba: University of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, TX),
Assistant Professor
Samia Islam: Boise State
University (Boise, ID),
Assistant Professor
Abhra Roy: Kennesaw State
University (Kennesaw, GA),
Assistant Professor
Matthew McPherson: Gonzaga
University (Spokane, WA),
Assistant Professor
2003
Tomi Ovaska:
University of Regina
(Regina, Canada), Assistant Professor
Ding Du: California
State University
at Bakersfield
(Bakersfield, CA), Lecturer
Elham Mafi: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN),
Assistant Professor
Jian-Fa Li: Chaoyang University of Technology (Taichung, Taiwan),
Assistant Professor
Duo Zhang: University
of Missouri at Rolla (Rolla, MO),
Assistant Professor
Steven Kreft: Indiana University
(Bloomington, IN), Lecturer
Alla Melkumian: Western Illinois University
(Macon, IL),
Assistant Professor
2002
Leticia Garcia: Elgin
College (Illinois), Assistant
Professor
Hong Wu: Ripon
College (Wisconsin), Assistant
Professor
Joe Palardy: Youngstown State
University (Ohio), Assistant
Professor
Reyadh Faras: University of Kuwait, Assistant Professor
Baishali Majumdar:
The World Bank, Consultant
2001
Vladimir Starkov: PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
Chicago, Senior Associate
2000
Victor Claar: Hope College
(Michigan),
Assistant Professor
Marty Dodson: University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Assistant Professor
Jeff Gropp: DePauw University
(Indiana),
Assistant Professor
Gary Wagner: Duquesne
University (Pennsylvania), Assistant
Professor
1999
Sudip Ghosh: Cleveland State University;
then Keene University (New Jersey), Assistant Professor
Woocheon Jeong:
WVU (post-doc); deceased 1999
1998
Tom Garrett: WVU (post-doc); then Kansas State
University, Assistant
Professor
Chuanliu Ni: U.S. Representative City of
Tianjin and Tianjin
Economic Development Area
Russell Rhine: University
of North Dakota,
Assistant Professor
1997
Jackie Khorassani: Marietta College
(Ohio),
Assistant Professor
Dave Sorenson: Augustana College
(South Dakota),
Assistant Professor
Attila Varga: Institute for Urban and
Regional Research, Austrian
Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Research Scholar)
1996
Yongjie Hu:
Center for Chinese Business at WVU, Research Assistant Professor
Jimmy Ran: Lingnan
University, Hong Kong , Assistant
Professor
1995
Hiroaki Fujimoto: Fukuoka
University (Japan),
Assistant Professor
Mostafa Aleseyed:
Salem-Teikyo
University (in WV),
Assistant Professor
1994
Nancy Norton: University
of Nebraska Extension
Laszlo Szerb: Janus Pannonius
University in Pecs, Hungary,
Associate Professor.
1993
Lawrence (Bill) Boyd: Univ.
of Hawaii at Manoa, Center for Labor Education and Research
Terry Rephann: Allegany College
(in MD), Office of Institutional Research
Anthony Stair: Frostburg
State (in MD)
Sudha Subrahmanyam:
State of Virginia Office
of Revenue
Buhong Zheng:
Post-doc at Univ.
of Alabama; then Univ. of Colorado at Denver
Armond Rossi: Frostburg State
(in MD)
Sarah Etherton: WVU Extension Service,
Institute for Labor Studies
Xiangqun (Clayton) Chen: I-Net, Inc. (an
accounting firm in Washington,
DC); then Coleman Research Corp.
(a defense company)
1992
Yajun Huang: Fudan Univ. in Shanghai, China
Greg Sefchik: Waynesburg College
(in PA)
1991
Ning Gong: Washington Univ.
(St. Louis),
post-doc
Ken Jones: U.S. General Accounting Office
1990
Omar Marashdeh: International Islamic Univ., Malaysia
John Georgellis: Staffordshire
Polytechnic Inst., United
Kingdom
Diamondo Afxentiou:
New York Institute of Technology
Suriya Phongam:
returned to Thailand
1989
Songchae Yoon: Korea University
Ali Dasmalchi: West Liberty
State College (in WV)
Gregory Gelles: Univ. of Missouri
at Rolla
Bunluasak Pussarungsri:
Nat'l. Inst. of Development Admin. (Thailand)
Timothy Schibik: University of Southern
Indiana
Olugbenga Adewunmi Onafowora: Susquehanna University
1988
Abd Malik Bin Ismail: Kebargsaan University (in Malaysia)
Masoud Moallem:
A small firm in Washington,
DC
Amal Madkour:
Al-Azhar
University, Cairo, Egypt
Mubarak Ali Al-Buraik: A Saudi government
agency
Jong Hyun Kim: A private company in Korea
William Levernier: Georgia
Southern College
1987
Thomas Beam: A private research institute under contract to Northwestern Univ.
Nasser Mehrzad: Frostburg State
University (in MD)
Stephen Naemeka Dike: City Administration of
Alexandria, VA
Rezai Karim Khondker: Somerset
College (in Kentucky)
Peggy Sin-Wei Pan Yi: WVU Institutional Analysis and Planning
1986
John Hisnanick: WVU Division of
Applied Research
Margaret Dalton: Frostburg State Univ. (in MD)
Gary Maggs: St. John Fisher
College (in Rochester, NY)
Mathias Materu: St. Augustine College
(in SC)
Redzuan Bin Othman: Univ. of Malaysia
Rafael Romero: Grinnell
College (in Iowa)
Masood (Sam)
Soltanmohammadi-Sarab: State of WV Insurance Commisioner's Office
1985
Adesoji Obafemi Adelaja: Rutgers-New Brunswick, Ag. Ec.
Dept.
Ahmad Afrasiabi: Allegheny College
(in PA)
Randy Holliday: American Electric Power
Rahmat Mozayan:
Monmouth College (in Illinois)
Churai Tapvong:
Government job in Thailand
Nasir Assar:
Glenville State (in WV)
Paul Richard LeFrancois: Limestone College
(in SC)
Larry Sweeney: Shepherd
College (in WV)
Mozayan, Rahmat