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.
2009
Miki Brunyer*: Saint John’s University ( Collegeville, MN), Assistant
Professor
Joab Corey: Florida State University
( Tallahassee
, FL),
Lecturer
John Dogbey*: Ohio University (Athens, OH),
Visiting Assistant Professor
Nabamita Dutta: University
of Wisconsin - La Crosse (La Crosse, WI),
Assistant Professor
Harumi Hattori*: West Virginia University
(Morgantown, WV), Professor of Mathematics (Prior
Position)
Ellis Heath: Valdosta
State University
(Valdosta, GA), Assistant Professor
Seth Kopchak*:
Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA),
Assistant Professor
Kwasi Osei-Yeboah*: Central Bank
of Ghana
(Accra, Ghana),
Economist
Matt Ryan: Duquesne
University (Pittsburgh, PA),
Assistant Professor
Jawad Salimi*: Pacific
Lutheran University
(Tacoma, WA),
Assistant Professor
Cesar Sobrino:
Universidad del Turabo (Gurabo, Puerto Rico),
Visiting Assistant Professor
* Ph.D. expected
Fall 2009
2008
Randy Childs: West
Virginia University (Morgantown, WV),
Research Associate 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
Claudia Williamson: Appalachian State
University (Boone, NC),
Assistant Professor
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