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I'm a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky.
 
 My research is primarily in the fields of economic growth, development, and international trade.  There are more details in the "current research" link.

In fall 2011, I'll teach in the first-year Ph.D. macro sequence (ECO 602) and a macro Ph.D. field class (ECO 762).  In spring 2011, I taught intermediate macro (ECO 402) and an undergraduate topics course on the economics of Africa (ECO 410).

In spring 2012, I'll be on sabbatical in Belgium.  I've received a Fulbright-Schuman award to do research on poor regions of the European Union at CORE (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics) at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

I have two Ph.D. students on the job market this year (completing their dissertations by summer 2012): Biniv Maskay and Brandon Sheridan - I highly recommend both of them!

In fall 2010, I co-organized the Southern Growth Conference at the SEA meetings with Areendam Chanda (LSU).  We also did this in 2008, and might do it again in 2012 - let me know if you'd be interested.