Professional Bio

Professional Bio

  • Ph.D., University of Utah, March 1985, Economics
  • B.S., University of Utah, June 1981, Economics, Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Experience

  • 9/00 – 5/08 Skidmore College Associate Professor of Finance & Department Chair (‘07-‘08) Management and Business Department
  • 10/99 – 9/00 Center for Creative Leadership Part-time Adjunct Researcher
  • 9/94 - 4/99 Litman/Gregory & Co., LLC Senior Research Analyst/Member of the Firm Editor, No-Load Fund Analyst
  • 6/87 - 9/94 University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Assistant/Associate Professor of Finance College of Business and Administration Tenured and promoted spring 1994

Administration

  • 1991 - 1992 Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (University of Colorado, Boulder summer program) Lecturer
  • Summer 1993 Helsinki School for Economics Visiting Professor
  • Summer 1991 University of Auckland, New Zealand Visiting Senior Lecturer

Research & Scholarship

Research Interests

  • The politics of monetary policy
  • Investing
  • Mutual funds
  • Pedagogy for business schools in liberal arts environments
  • Creativity

Scholarship

Publications in Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Journal of Investing, Business and Society Review and The American Statistician