UMass Boston

Faculty & Staff

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

Michael Carr
Department Chair, Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Social Policy
617.287.6960
Michael.Carr@umb.edu
Expertise: Labor Economics

Jonathan F. Cogliano
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
jonathan.cogliano@umb.edu
Expertise: Microeconomics, History of economic Thought, and Political Economy

Ilaria D’Angelis
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6950
Ilaria.Dangelis@umb.edu
Expertise: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Women in the Labor Market, Macro Labor

Leila Davis
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
leila.davis@umb.edu
Expertise: Macroeconomics

Joao Paulo A. de SouzaAssistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
Joao.Desouza@umb.edu
Expertise: Macroeconomics, economic development

Anne Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
Anne.Fitzpatrick@umb.edu
Expertise: Health Economics

Dania V. Francis
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
Dania.Francis@umb.edu
Expertise: Racial economic disparities, economics of education, stratification economics

Keren Horn
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
keren.horn@umb.edu
Expertise: Urban Economics

Michelle Jiang
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
Michelle.Jiang@umb.edu
Expertise: Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics 

Marlene Kim
Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6954
marlene.kim@umb.edu
Expertise: Discrimination and the working poor

Y.K. Kim
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6959
YK.Kim@umb.edu
Expertise: Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Growth and Development

Charalampos Konstantinidis
Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6950
konstantinidis@umb.edu
Expertise: Political economy; ecological economics; political economy of agriculture, food, and the environment

Rishabh Kumar
Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
rishabh.kumar@umb.edu
Expertise: Economic History, Inequality and Macroeconomics.

Adugna Lemi
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6962
adugna.lemi@umb.edu
Expertise: International Trade and Finance, Multinational Corporations, Development Economics, International Political Economy, Poverty and Income Dynamics

Sripad Motiram
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
Sripad.Motiram@umb.edu
Expertise: Development economics, Political Economics, Welfare Economy, Microeconomics

Andrew Perumal
Associate Provost & Associate Professor of Economics
Andrew.Perumal@umb.edu
Expertise: Econometrics &Statistical Computing, Urban & Regional Economics, and Economic Education

David Timmons
Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
david.timmons@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental and ecological economics

Lecturers and Visitors

Nurul Aman
Senior Lecturer in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6951
nurul.aman@umb.edu
Expertise: Money and Finance, Information Economics, and Knowledge Management Economics

Kevin L. Carlson
Senior Lecturer in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6908
kevin.carlson@umb.edu
Expertise: Microeconomics, Industrial Organization

Ellen Frank
Lecturer I in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
ellen.frank@umb.edu
Expertise: Macroeconomic Policy, Financial Institutions, State and Local Fiscal Issues, Retirement Security, Austerity Policies

Phillip Granberry
Senior Lecturer II in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.331.6942
Phillip.Granberry@umb.edu
Expertise: Social Capital, International Migration, Urban Economics

Barbara McGonagle
Lecturer I in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/a
barbara.mcgonagle@umb.edu
Expertise: Elderly poverty issues

Jon Millman
Senior Lecturer in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
N/A
jon.millman@umb.edu
Expertise: Microeconomics, History of Thought, Methodology, Marxist Economics

Joanne Spitz
Senior Lecturer in Economics, College of Liberal Arts
617.287.6243
joanne.spitz@umb.edu
Expertise: Microeconomics, Economics of Crime, and Sports Economics

Jennifer Janisch Clifford
Lecturer II in Economics, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston
617.287.6950
Jennifer.Clifford@umb.edu
Expertise: Environmental Economics, Food and Water Resources, Economic Valuation and Economic Incentives.