Marie T. Mora is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics at University of Missouri St. Louis.

She’s been an active researcher during her career, earning $3 million in external funding as a principal investigator or co-PI. She’s was named one of the “75 Top Economics Influencers to Follow” by FocusEconomics and served as past president and founding member of the American Society of Hispanic Economists.

Professor Mora’s research interests are in labor economics, particularly in the areas of Hispanic/Latino labor-market and other socioeconomic outcomes (including self-employment and migration). She has published on these topics in refereed journals such as the American Economic Review P&P, Industrial Relations, Journal of Population Economics, Social Science Quarterly, International Migration Review, among others. Her books include Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes of Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans: La Crisis Boricua (Lexington Books 2017), co-authored with Alberto Dávila & Havidán Rodríguez; the award-winning Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s (Stanford University Press 2013), co-authored with A. Dávila; and two co-edited/co-authored volumes (also with A. Dávila): The Economic Status of the Hispanic Population (Information Age Publishing 2013), and Labor Market Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border (University of Arizona Press 2009).

Professor Mora has been invited to share her research expertise on Hispanic/Latino socioeconomic outcomes across the U.S., including with the White House Initiative for the Educational Excellence of Hispanics; the White House Council of Economic Advisers; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; the U.S. Department of Labor; among other agencies and institutions.

Professor Mora earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of New Mexico and a PhD from Texas A&M University. Before joining UMSL, she was Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Prior to her appointment at UTRGV, Professor Mora served as vice provost fellow for faculty affairs at the University of Texas–Pan American, MBA program director at UTPA and as an assistant, then associate professor of economics at New Mexico State University.

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