Faculty
Meet the Faculty
Ryan Baranowski
Associate Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics
B.A., Coe College
M.A., Ph.D., University of California Irvine
Professor Baranowski teaches Principles of Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, U.S. Economic History, Money and Banking and Labor Economics. His research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics and monetary economics with a focus on expectations and informational frictions.
Gavin Cross
John F. Yothers Professor of Mathematics, Chair
B.A., B.S., Miami University, Ohio
M.S., University of Missouri-Rolla
M.S., Ph.D, University of Iowa
Academic Interests:
Statistical education and probabilistic combinatorics
Richard G. Eichhorn, Ph.D.
The Henry B. Tippie Professor of Business Administration and Economics
B.S., University of Tulsa
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Dr. Eichhorn's teaching and research fields are Econometrics and Monetary Macroeconomics. Rick came to Coe in the fall of 2000 and teaches a variety of courses in the economics curriculum, focusing on quantitative methods and macroeconomics. He is very active in the Spellman Summer Research Workshop and has supervised many honors theses and other research projects where he focuses on developing students' empirical analysis and professional writing skills. His students regularly present their work at the Student Research Symposium, as well as off-campus conferences. Rick's own research has been published in Applied Economics and the Journal of Macroeconomics.
Stephen Hughes
Associate Professor of Computer Science
B.S., Dickinson College
M.S., Indiana University
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Chelsea Lensing
Assistant Professor of Stead Department of Business Administration and Economics
B.A., Coe College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Professor Lensing teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Health Economics, and International Economics. Her research interests are in the field of health economics with a focus on food policy and nutrition.
Michael Stobb
Assistant Professor of Data Science
B.A., Humboldt State University
M.S., Humboldt State University
Ph.D., University of California, Merced