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Meet the Economics Faculty

Knox economics professors are both superb teachers and leading researchers in their fields. Their interests include international economics and the Middle East, American banking, Midwestern and American economic history, political economics, educational spending, and environmental and energy economics.

Richard A. Stout Richard A. Stout, Chair
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1984
"It is fun to apply statistical methods outside economics, and it allows me to work with specialists at one of our local hospitals, Cottage Hospital."
Roy Anderson Roy Andersen
Charles W. and Arvilla S. Timme Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1972
"I am especially interested in conning the wider implications of global interdependence on the lower income countries of the world."
Steve Cohn Steve Cohn
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1986
"I am interested in environmental economics and in fundamental philosophical questions involved in the economics curriculum."
Jonathan Powers Jonathan Powers
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Northwestern University 2002
Carol Scotton Carol Scotton
Assistant Professor of Economics and Business and Management
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2000

Emeritus Faculty
Mary Locke Eysenbach
Charles W. and Arvilla S. Timme Professor Emerita of Economics

Wilbur Fiske Pillsbury
Philip Sidney Post Professor Emeritus of Economics

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Academic News

Knox Among Top Colleges for Fulbright Scholar Awards in 2009-10

Knox College is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation for Fulbright Scholar grants awarded to faculty during 2009-2010. Karen Kampwirth is studying feminism and politics at the University of Buenos Aires, and Jeremy Day O'Connell is conducting musicology and linguistics research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Japanese Club Marks Halloween with Kimodameshi

Severed heads, a ghost in the well -- the Knox College Japanese Club marks Halloween by building a "Kimodameshi," which led visitors through scenes drawn from traditional Japanese ghost stories.

Amity Shlaes Gives Lecture on US Economy

Too much government action, not too little, lengthened the Great Depression, according to author and columnist Amity Shlaes, in an October 15 lecture at Knox College.

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