Gary A Hoover

Executive Director of the Murphy Institute, Professor of Economics and Affiliate Professor of Law

Tulane University

Office: 123 Caroline Richardson Hall

Phone: 504.865.5317

Email: ghoover at tulane.edu

Specialty Areas:

Income Distribution/Poverty, Public Finance, Ethics in Economics

Education:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (B.A., 1993), Washington University in St. Louis (M.A., 1995 and Ph.D., 1998).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Since January 2021, I have been the Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. From 2011 to 2024, I was a member (and from 2012 co-chair) of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession.

I am the current and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy. 

From 2022 until 2023, I was the President of the Southern Economic Association. From 2018 until 2020, I was the Vice President of the Southern Economic Association. 

From 2022 until 2025, I was on the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award selection committee.

In 2021, I was a featured speaker at the Nobel Prize Summit, Our Planet, Our Future.

Since 2010, I have been a fellow at CESifo Group Munich. 

Since 2023 I have been on the advisory board for the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.

Since 2020, I have been a board member for the National Economic Education Delegation.

I was Department Chair of Economics at the University of Oklahoma from January 2015 until December 2020. In April of 2017, I was appointed a President's Associates Presidential Professorship at the University of Oklahoma. 

I was the Assistant Dean for Faculty and Graduate Student Development in the Culverhouse College of Business Administration at the University of Alabama from August 2005 to May of 2014. From August 2006 until December 2014, I was the William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama. 

I am a member of the Western Economic Association and American Economic Association. I was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Poverty and a mentor in the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program.