Economics PhD Graduates

Name Year of UMSL Grad PhD Institution Subsequent Position Doctoral Area if not Economics
Geraldine Germain forthcoming U of Washington Social Work
Ken Bao BS 2014, MA 2017 UC – Santa Barbara EPA
Thomas Briggs BS/MA 2013 Colorado State Bureau of Economic Analysis
Trung Ly BS 2011, MA 2013 Notre Dame NC State / U of West Georgia
Matthew Delventhal BS 2010 Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) Corelogic/Claremont McKenna College
Patrick “Mitch” Downey BS/MA 2009 U-C San Diego Stockholm University IIES
Lin Zhao MA 2008 U of Texas-San Antonio Elon University Finance
Travis Box MA 2008 U of Arizona Clemson/U of Mississippi Finance
Vikram Kumar MA 2008 Penn State Cornerstone Research/Compass Lexecon (London)
Juan Fung MA 2008 U of Illinois-Champaign Urbana National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Li Li MA 2006 Georgetown PNC Bank
Brian Buckles MA 2005 UT-Dallas PharmStreet
Marcela Giraldo BS 2005 U of Florida Southern Methodist Univ (SMU)
Michael Thomas MA 2005 George Mason Creighton Univ/Utah State
Michal Grinstein-Weiss MA 2005 Washington University Wash U/UNC-Chapel Hill Social Work
Ian Schmutte MA 2003 Cornell U of Georgia
Chang Wang MA 2003 UC-Irvine
Nantaporn Plurphanswat MA 2000 U of Illinois-Chicago U of Louisville
Sondra Beverly MA 1999 Washington University U of Kansas Social Work
Sasatra Sudsawasd MA 1999 Georgia State National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) in Thailand
John Posey MA 1999 Rutgers East-West Gateway Urban Planning
Stephen Stohs MA 1999 UC-Berkeley NOAA Fisheries Service Ag Econ
Grant Black BS 1992, MA 1993 Georgia State Lindenwood Univ/UMSL/U of Indiana-South Bend
Narayan Regmi MA 1992 SLU Government of Nepal
Gary Zack MA 1991 SLU Fontbonne
Kate Krause MA 1991 Wisconsin U of New Mexico-Albuquerque
Rick Schmidt BS 1990 University of Virginia (ABD) SSM St. Clare Health Center MD from U of Missouri
Michael Sykuta BS 1989 Washington University University of Missouri-Columbia
Douglas Eckley MA 1989 George Mason
Timothy Sullivan BS 1988 Maryland SIU-E
Patrice Mareschal BA 1987 U of Oklahoma Rutgers University Political Science
Muneer Al-Maskery MA 1986 UMSL Modern College for Business & Science in Oman Political Science
Mary Suiter BA 1985 UMSL St. Louis Fed Education
Diane E. Schmidt MA 1982 Washington University Cal State-Chico Political Science
Walter Mayer BA 1982 University of Florida U of Mississippi
Robert E. Collins BS 1980 Michigan State U of Kansas Entomology
Jerry Evensky MA 1979 Syracuse Syracuse
John Conant BS 1976 U of Tennessee Indiana State
Rudy Fichtenbaum BS 1976 Missouri-Columbia Wright State University
Tom Nesslein MA 1976 University of Washington U of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Dale Swoboda BA 1976 Arizona State Public Admin
Dan Nolle MA 1976 Johns Hopkins Comptroller of the Currency/Middlebury
Nancy Jiankopolous MA 1974 Ohio State Colorado State
Jim Johnson MA 1974 Syracuse
Deborah Chollet BS 1972 Syracuse Mathematica
Sarapage McCorkle MA 1971 UMSL Junior Achievement/UMSL Education