Faculty and Staff Directory
Professors

Mark Anderson
Professor
Applied microeconomics, health economics, and economic history

Joe Atwood
Production economics, and agricultural finance

Eric Belasco
Department Head
Agricultural policy, marketing, and crop insurance

Greg Gilpin

Marsha Goetting
MSU Extension Family Economics Specialist
Estate Planning, Financial Management, and Alzheimer's

George Haynes
MSU Extension Agricultural Policy Specialist

Wendy Stock
Professor
Initiative for Regulation and Applied Economic Analysis Director
Applied microeconomics & policy analysis, labor economics, and economics

Chris Stoddard
Professor
Graduate Affairs Committee Chair
Labor economics, public finance, economics of education, health economics

Carly Urban
Professor
Public Economics, Political Economy
Associate Professors

Mariana Carerra
Health economics, behaviorial economics and applied microeconomics

Diane Charlton
Resident Instruction Agricultural Business Certifying Officer
Labor migration, farm labor markets, agriculture, development

Justin Gallagher

Andrew Hill
Labor Economics and Economics of Education

Isaac Swensen
Associate Professor
Risky Behaviors, Crime, Health, Education, Applied Microeconomics
Assistant Professors

Nick Hagerty
Assistant Professsor
Natural Resources and Agricultural Economics
Kelsey Larson
Assistant Professor & MSU Extension Farm and Ranch Management Specialist
Environmental and Public Economics
kelsey.larson4@montana.edu

Seunghyun Lee
Agricultural production, climate change, and land use

Melissa LoPalo
Assistant Professor
Labor Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics

Nicole Karwowski
Climate Change and conservation and nature-based solutions in mitigating the effects
of natural disasters.
Instructors

Anthony Clark
Instructor
Terry Schaplow
Instructor
Professionals/Visiting Scholars

Tamara Moe
Administrative Manager for the Initiative for Regulatory and Applied Economic Analysis (IRAEA)

Dax Schieffer
Affiliate
Montana Council for Economic Education

Joel Schumacher
MSU Extension
Economics Associate Specialist
Staff

Kellie Christensen
Student Success/Academic Coordinator
Emeritus Faculty