Mentoring
PhD Dissertation Committee Membership
I am a member of Tarana Chauhan's dissertation committee who is a PhD candidate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Her PhD advisor is Chris Barrett.
Tarana's research focuses on studying the effect of economic and non-economic factors on women's experience of intimate partner violence.
Structural Transformation of African (and Asian ) Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS and STAAARS+)
The STAARS project is a collaborative venture between the African Development Bank, CGIAR Research PIM program, Partnership of Economic Policy (PEP), African Economic Research Consortium, the World Bank, and Cornell University.
The program matches African and African-based researchers, and recently Asia-based, with researchers and faculty members in the US. The objective is to conduct policy-relevant research using LSMS-ISA data and other publicly available datasets, and to provide capacity building opportunities to African and Africa-based scholars.
More information can be found here.
I have had the fortune to be a mentor to two STAARS fellows and the first STAAARS+ team from Asia. Below links to the profiles of fellows I have worked with:
STAAARS+ Team 2021-2022
Muthoni Nganga - STAARS fellow 2020
Muthoni received my PhD in Economics in 2019 from the University in Nairobi. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. She previously taught at Strathmore University, Strathmore Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Kenyatta University, School of Economics.
Tagel Gebreheiwot - STAARS fellow 2016
Tagel is the Center Director and a research fellow at the Environment and Climate Research Center (ECRC). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. His field of expertise include climate vulnerability assessments and farm level adaptation to climate change, environmental impact assessment, policy impact evaluation, poverty and food security analysis, and agricultural insurance and risk sharing.
Association for Mentoring and Inclusion in Economics (AMIE)
AMIE seeks to promote equal access to information and opportunities, decreasing dependence on existing networks. The priorities are demand driven by surveys of PhD Students. Their mission is to address gender, race, and socioeconomic-based gaps in the economics profession through mentorship, resource provisioning, and a network focused on inclusion. This includes underrepresented minorities (URM), LGBTQIA++, first-generation college, and international students (in the US and outside the US).
2023 - 2024 - Mentor
Young received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland in 2024. In Fall 2024 he will join the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor.
Danielle Purcell
Danielle is in her 3rd year of the PhD in Economics at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville under the supervision of Peter McGee.
2022-2023 - Job Market Mentor
Masyhur obtained his PhD in Economics from Boston University. He joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2023 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor)