2007-08 New Faculty

Glenn Loury was a guest on Bill Moyer's Journal on June 20, 2008 discussing racial inequality in America through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape.

Oded Galor was named Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics by the Brown University Corporation at its May 2008 meeting. Galor completed his B.A. and M.A. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He served as Chilewich Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University, and at Brown he is a core faculty in the Population Studies and Training Center and a faculty associate of the Watson Institute for International Studies. Galor has been the editor of the principal journal in his field – the Journal of Economic Growth – since 1995, and he is editor of the newly established quarterly, Foundations and Trends in Economic Growth. In addition he has been a member of the editorial board of Economics and Human Biology since 2003 and the Journal of Economic Inequality since 2003); an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking since 2004, the Journal of Population Economics since 2007, and Macroeconomic Dynamics since 2000; and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Research since 1997.

Ross Levine's research on banks taking undue risk is mentioned in an article on Banking Bailout in the May 15, 2008 edition of Economist.com and the May 17th print edition of The Economist.

The 2008 NSF/NBER/CEME Conference on General Equilibrium and Mathematical Economics will be hosted by our Department between October 17 and 19. More details appear on the conference website.

Economics Concentrator, Johny Lin featured in the spring issue of Newsweek magazine Current. 

Economics Concentrator, Zindziswa Mc Cormick, has been named Udall Scholar by the Office of the Dean of the College.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s firebrand former pastor Jeremiah Wright re-entered the public domain with a speech at the National Press Club. Professor of economics Glenn Loury says Wright’s views are forcing African Americans to carefully examine Obama’s stance on racial issues.

Rachel Friedberg has been selected by the Dean of the Faculty to receive the William G. McLoughlin Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Social Sciences for 2008-09. This
is one of four University awards (humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and life sciences) recognizing Brown faculty members for sustained and continued excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Anna Aizer has been chosen as a winner of the Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship for 2008-09. The Wriston competition is one way the University recognizes the important contributions of our faculty to the mission of undergraduate education at Brown.

Glenn Loury is featured on the cover of the March/April 2008 Brown Alumni Magazine and in an article "A Nation of Jailers".

The U.S. Treasury has proposed an overhaul of the federal financial regulatory system in part to avoid financial crises like the one major lending institutions now face. Professor Ross Levine discussed how many banks got into trouble in the first place.

Professor Glenn Loury engaged in a blogging debate with John McWhorter of the Manhattan Institute about presidential candidate Barack Obama’s recent speech about race and religion.

Incarceration rates are significantly higher for African Americans and Hispanics than they are for whites, both in Rhode Island and nationally. Professor of economics Glenn Loury, among others, addressed this issue in a panel sponsored by Rhode Island Young Professionals, a branch of the Urban League of Rhode Island.

Africana studies professors Tricia Rose and Corey D.B. Walker moderated a panel on the role of race and gender in the 2008 presidential campaign. Speakers included political science professors Katrina Gamble, Jennifer Lawless, Darrell West and economics professor Glenn Loury.

Glenn Loury speaks to the Brown club of Boston on March 13, 2008 on Mass Incarceration and American Ideals.

Pedro Dal Bo, co-author of a study on congressional dynasties, was cited by Washington Post writer, William Booth, in his article titled “Relative Power”.

An academic study on presidential primaries by Brian Knight, an associate professor and Nathan Schiff, a graduate student was cited in the New York Times Editorial Board’s blog , 12/17/07.

The latest edition (10/2007) of our newsletter is now available.