Welcome

I am a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah with expertise in the areas of US economic history, demography, and labor.  My research focuses mainly on issues of socioeconomic inequality, both historically and in the current period. I regularly teach US economic history (for general education students, undergraduate economics majors, and doctoral students); the economics of discrimination; micro economic theory (intermediate and master's level); and labor economics. I also teach an interdisciplinary course on inequality with faculty from Political Science. I will be serving as department chair beginning July 1, 2023.  I previously served as chair from 2011 to 2017, and from 2010 to 2018 I was the Director of the our college's Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Human Rights. I received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Dayton and master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of Michigan, and from 1992 to 1994 I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago.

E-mail: maloney at economics dot utah dot edu