About Me

at Texas Falls in Vermont

I joined the Middlebury economics department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2005, shortly after receiving my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.  I teach courses in microeconomics, labor economics, urban economics, statistics, and econometrics.  My research has focused on discrimination and inequality in labor and housing markets, time use and television, and the determinants of prosocial behaviors.  I am also a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. 

I've lived for approximately equal times in Louisiana, West Virginia, Georgia, and Texas.  My husband, Adam, and I are enjoying our first experiences as yankees here in bucolic Vermont.  We live on ten acres nestled against the green mountains with our dog, Kielbasa Nova, senile cat, Arina, and nine chickens, Helen, Connie, Georgia, Tobit, Probit, Logit, Heckit, Peckit, and Wormsbane.  We also have our new baby, Finn, who was born in March of 2007.