Names of Some Select Interested Scholars supporting the Nepal Study Center

University of New Mexico

[Disciplines at UNM: Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Water Resources Program, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Women Studies, and Public Health]

Alok K. Bohara, Ph.D. (Contact person), Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Mexico (UNM); 505-277-5903, Bohara@unm.edu, (Environmental Economics, Development, Econometrics)

Neil Mitchell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science, UNM, nmitchel@unm.edu, (Human Rights and Political Violence)

Wendy Hansen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science, UNM, wlhansen@unm.edu, (Political Economy)

Kristine Grimsrud, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UNM, grimsrud@unm.edu; (Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; genetically modified crops)

Jennifer Thacher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UNM, jthacher@unm.edu; (Environmental Economics; natural resources, Public Finance)

Robert P. Berrens, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UNM, rberrens@unm.edu; (Land management, non-market valuation, institutional economics)

Don Coes, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, UNM, dcoes@unm.edu; (Development economics, Latin American Economics)

Christine Sauer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, UNM, sauer@unm.edu; (International, emerging economies, macro)

Philip ganderton, Ph.D. Department of Economics, gandini@unm.edu; (Hazard risk management, benefit-cost analysys)

Louis Scuderi, Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, UNM, tree@unm.edu; (GIS and geography)

Matias Fontenla, Ph.D., Department of Economics, UNM, fontenla@unm.edu, (Macroeconomics, development)

Gail Houston, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director, Women Studies; UNM (Women’s issues and empowerment)

Michael Campana, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Water Resources Program, UNM (Hydrology, water resources in developing countries, environmental science)

Susan Tiano, Professor, Chair, Sociology, UNM (Gender and development)

Nina Wallerstein, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Masters in Public Health Program, School of Medicine, UNM, (women’s health intervention; community health; supports the broad themes for Nepal as well as for other regions with special emphasis on health)


Other US Universities

Gil Merkx, Ph.D., Vice Provost for International Affairs, Duke University (Latin American studies)

Kishore Gawande, Ph.D., Helen and Roy Ryu Chair in International Affairs at Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M; (Trade, Lobbying, and Development)

John A. List, Ph.D., Professor, University of Maryland; Director (Joint Global Change Research Institute), senior economist (President’s Council of Economic Advisors), Faculty Research Fellow (National Bureau of Economic Research), Associate Editor (American Economic Review), (Environmental economics and public policy)

Robert F. McNown, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, (Former Fulbright scholar to Nepal), University of Colorado, Boulder, (Population Studies and Macro)

Thomas Rutherford, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder; (Computable General Equilibrium Analysis, poverty and the environment)

Ford Ballantyne, Ph.D., Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego; (Ecology)

Keshav Bhattarai, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Central Missouri State University (Spatial analysis, urbanization, GIS and Geography)

Mukti Upadhyay, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Eastern Illinois University; (International, Development)

Kamal Upadhyaya, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Haven, Connecticut; (Industrial organization, exchange rates)

Ken Roberts, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science, Cornell University, kenrob@unm.edu; (civil unrest; Peru)


Canada

John Cockburn, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Laval University, Canada (Co-director: Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) research network (www.pep-net.org); development, poverty, child poverty, macro-micro linkages)

Mexico

Alejandro Islas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, ITAM, Mexico (Financial crisis, development, Latin American economies)


India

Mahendra P. Lama, Ph.D., Professor, South Asian Studies Division, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India; (South Asian Studies, conflict, human development index)


United Kingdom

Sherman Robinson, Ph.D., Professor, Economics Department, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom, Sherman.Robinson@sussex.ac.uk (Trade, sectoral linkages, distribution, and poverty)
(An Institute Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Was a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley; on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (in the Clinton administration), Division Chief in the Research Department of the World Bank)


Nepal

Prakash R. Sapkota, Executive Director, Himalayan Institute of Development, Kathmandu, Nepal; (Socio-economic development and poverty)

Madan K. Dahal, Ph.D., Department Head, Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal; (Public Finance)

Sangita Rayamajhi, Ph.D., American Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; (women’s issues)

Mani Nepal, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (Environmental Economics and Development; Doctoral student at UNM)