Faculty

Sarah Palor Dean
Assistant Professor of Economics
sylvestersp@eckerd.edu
BES 118
727.864.8250

Professor Dean’s current research seeks to understand the willingness to own cryptocurrencies as well as the operation of cryptocurrency trading markets, utilizing different experimental economic techniques.

Jeff Felardo
Associate Professor of Economics
felardjj@eckerd.edu
Behavioral Sciences 117
727.864.8425
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Felardo is interested primarily in natural resource and environmental economics, and applied microeconomics. His research focuses on natural resource management in the United States and Southeast Asia. Recent work studies the effect of low-flow appliance rebates on residential water use, and the feasibility of carbon credit programs and forest management in rural Thailand. He earned his Ph.D. at University of New Mexico.

Diana Fuguitt
Professor of Economics
fuguitdl@eckerd.edu
Behavioral Sciences 108
727.864.8472

Professor Fuguitt is interested primarily in international foreign exchange and trade, macroeconomics, environmental economics, and economic development in African, Asian and Latin American countries. Her research interests include global public goods, cost-benefit analysis, and African development. She received her Ph.D. from Rice University.

Visiting faculty

Jill Collins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
collinjp@eckerd.edu
Forrer 111A
727.864.7513

Professor Collins is interested in environmental and natural resource economics. She has her Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee where her dissertation addressed problems in valuing air quality.

Emeriti

Peter Hammerschmidt
Professor Emeritus of Economics

Linda Lucas
Professor Emeritus of Economics

Tom Oberhofer
Professor Emerita of Economics