Economics Faculty

Department Chair

Mesude E. Kongar
Associate Professor of Economics (2003).
Althouse Hall Room 210
kongare@dickinson.edu
(717) 245-1529

Department Faculty

Charles A. Barone
Professor of Economics (1975).
Althouse Hall Room 209
(717) 245-1404 | barone@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., American University, 1971; Ph.D., 1978.

Specializes in U.S. political economy with special emphasis on wealth and income distribution, labor issues, and race, class, and gender discrimination. He is also interested in the social and psychological dynamics of prejudice and discrimination. His most recent publications examine the social and economic dimensions of class and classism, and he has written a new economics text for 2004.

William K. Bellinger
Professor of Economics (1981).
Althouse Hall Room 212
(717) 245-1358 | bellinge@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., Michigan State University, 1972; M.S., Cornell University, 1975; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1985.
on leave Spring 2011

Teaching interests include microeconomic theory, labor economics, the economics of public policy and urban policy in a local context. Current research interests include the economics of urban retail development, arts and educational institutions, a range of small town development and policy issues, and general research involving the economic analysis of public policy.

Sinan Koont
Associate Professor of Economics (1986).
Althouse Hall Room 112
(717) 245-1841 | koont@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., Park College, 1963; M.S., University of Arkansas, 1966; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1972; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1987.

His teaching interests include economic theory, econometrics, mathematical economics, economic development, and comparative economic systems. His current research interest is agrarian reform and macro economic policy in Central America and Caribbean.

Edward A. McPhail
(on partial leave 2011-12)
Associate Professor of Economics (1998).
Althouse Hall Room 115
(717) 245-1264 | mcphail@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.A., Washington University, 1986; M.A., University of Virginia, 1989; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2001.

Nicola Tynan
(on leave 2011-12)
Associate Professor of Economics (2001).

tynann@dickinson.edu
B.A., University of York, 1991; M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994; M.A., George Mason University, 1998; Ph.D., 2000.

Teaching interests: economic history, environmental and resource economics, industrial organization, microeconomics and public policy. Primary research interest: water - economic history with a focus on London and the UK, water infrastructure and development, the history of economic focusing on network industries, and industrial organization.

Mesude E. Kongar
Associate Professor of Economics (2003).
Althouse Hall Room 210
(717) 245-1529 | kongare@dickinson.edu
B.S., Bogazici University-Turkey, 1996; Ph.D., University of Utah, 2003.

Andrew Farrant
Assistant Professor of Economics (2005).
Althouse Hall Room 113
(717) 245-1872 | farranta@dickinson.edu
B.S., University of London, 1996; M.A., George Mason University, 1998; Ph.D., 2003.

Teaching interests include: Monetary Theory and Policy, Political Economy, Microeconomics. Research interests include: Political Economy, British Economic History (1945-1951), 19th century Philosophic Radicalism.

Alla Semenova
Assistant Professor of Economics (2010).
Althouse Hall Room G18
(717) 245-1034 | semenova@dickinson.edu
B.A., National University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine, 2004; M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2007; Ph.D., 2011.

Sebastian Berger
Assistant Professor of Economics (2011).
Althouse Hall Room 216
bergerse@dickinson.edu
M.A., Chemnitz University of Technology, 2003; Ph.D., Bremen University, 2006.

Erik Dean
Visiting Instructor in Economics (2011).
Stern Center for Global Educ Room 002
deaneri@dickinson.edu
B.A., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2005; M.A., 2008.

Contributing Faculty

Stephen E. Erfle
Associate Professor of International Business and Management (1989).
Althouse Hall Room 102
(717) 245-1635 | erfle@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
B.S., University of California at Davis, 1977; B.A., 1977; M.A., Harvard University, 1981; Ph.D., 1983.

He is interested in managerial decision making, marketing, and how regulation affects firms within an industry. His most recent research involves how sales price is negotiated in residential real estate markets and how technology is used in the classroom.

Adjunct Faculty

Tricia L. Hawks
Adjunct Faculty in Economics
Althouse Hall Room 219
(717) 254-8801 | hawkst@dickinson.edu
B.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1992; M.A., University of Connecticut, 1996; Ph.D., 2002.