Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY 13820
431-4943
Department Chair and Professor of Economics,
Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York 13820
Appointed 1986, Tenured 1991.
Department Chair, 1996 to present.
Co-Director, Hartwick College Honors Program, (1994-2000).
Courses: Introductory Micro and Macroeconomics, American Economic History,
International Economics, History of Economic Thought, and January in Germany.
RECENT HONORS AND GRANTS
Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
(2001-02).
President, Economic and Business Historical Society (2000-01).
Dictionary of International Biography (2000-01).
Who’s Who in the World (1999-2001).
Who’s Who in America (1995-2001).
Who’s Who in America’s Teachers (1995-2001).
Hartwick Student Senate "Professor of the Year" (1988, 1992 and 1998).
Hartwick Trustee Research Grant (2000).
Margaret Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching (1993).
Culpeper Foundation Grant for Curricular Technology (1997).
RECENT CURRICULUM DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
PROJECTS AT HARTWICK COLLEGE
Henry Luce Foundation Intercultural Education Grant, (1997-1999)
One of ten faculty selected to collaborate on the design and implementation of five off-campus international pilot courses for first-year students during the four week Hartwick College January term. The course included seven week preparatory and four week debriefing phases, and emphasized the transition of first year students to college, training in language and cultural acclimation, and contemporary issues in the host society. Experience in co-leading "Europe in Transition," one of the pilots, led to follow-up research and the publication of Learning Interdependence: One Small College’s Experience with the International/ Intercultural Education of First-Year Students, with David Bachner and Mary Snider, (forthcoming, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, Spring 2001).
Liaison to the Vice-President of Academic Affairs, (1999)
Appointed by the Vice-President of Academic Affairs to lead administrative, faculty, and staff efforts to redesign and implement the Hartwick College Summer Orientation and Registration Program for incoming students. Changed a first-come-first-served registration process to an interest-based scheduling system, where faculty interview students and later build class schedules in a collaborative environment that mimics a game-theoretic auction.
Economics Department Curriculum Redesign (1997-1999)
Hired faculty for three of four faculty positions, conducted a departmental review, and led the design and implementation of an innovative new curriculum for the Economics major. Outcomes include significantly higher enrollment in the major than the national average for comparable institutions, greater flexibility to offer cutting-edge electives, and the introduction of a problem-based learning and student-as-researcher motif in every course.
ReBound, an Employment Training Project for Saxony, Germany (1991-1995)
Co-Founder and Program Director, in partnership with the CDS International of Cologne, Germany and New York, NY, of this German and American project. Designed and supervised a training curriculum to assist unemployed women with formulating and implementing plans for small businesses in eastern Germany.
RECENT AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Opening the West: Federal Internal Improvements Before 1860, (Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1998).
The Essential Adam Smith, Co-Edited with Robert L. Heilbroner, (W. W. Norton, New York, 1986).
"Telegraphs to Incandescent Lamps: A Sequential Process of Innovation,"
Essays in Economic and Business History, Economic and Business
History Society, 2000.
"Origins, Development and Concentration of the Match Industry in
the United States,"
Essays in Economic and Business History, Economic and Business
History Society, 1998.
"The Cost of Medical Innovation," New York Times, Lead Editorial Letter, April 28, 2000.
"Making Sense of a Changing
Economy: Technology, Markets, and Morals," Ed Nell,
Business Library Review, June
1998, Vol. 23, No. 1.
"Sequential Technical Change:
The Telegraph, Arc Light and Incandescent Lamp,"
Economic and Business Historical
Society Annual Meeting, 1999.
"New Evidence for an Infrastructural
Investment Cycle,"
Economic and Business Historical
Society Annual Meeting, 1998.
"The State of the State," Invited Lecture, Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland (1998).
"Origins, Development and
Concentration of the Match Industry in the United States from 1830 to 1880,"
Economic and Business Historical
Society Annual Meeting, 1997.
"Federal Internal Improvements
and the Market Revolution,"
Society for the History of
the Early American Republic, Annual Meeting, 1997.
"A Match Made for the Classroom:
Peer Criticism and Problem-Based Learning," in the featured workshop
"Problem-Based Learning:
Exploring Its Uses in the Humanities and Social Sciences,"
55th Annual Meeting of the
American Conference of Academic Deans, 1999.
"The First-Year Intercultural
Experience," 18th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience,
University of South Carolina,
1999.
EDUCATION
Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York, NY
PhD in Economics, 1991.
Research and Teaching Assistant
for Dr. Robert L. Heilbroner.
Specializations in History
of Economic Thought and Economic History.
SUNY College at Purchase, Purchase NY
BA in Economics, with College
Honors, 1979.
Student Senate President and
Member of the Board of Trustees, 1978-1979.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Economic and Business Historical
Society, 1995 to present.
Board of Trustees, Economic
and Business Historical Society, 1998 to present.
Editorial Board, Essays
in Economic and Business History, 1998 to present.
Society for the History of
the Early American Republic, 1997 to present.
Reviewer, Journal of the
Early American Republic, 1997 to present.
Reviewer, Social Science
History, 1998 to present.
Reviewer, Business Library
Review, 1998 to present.
Economic History Association,
1985 to present.
American Economic Association,
1985 to present.