Education:

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998
• M.S., University of Rochester, 1994
• B.A., University of Vermont, 1992

Teaching Interests:

• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Law
• Law and Economics
• Microeconomics

Activities and Honors:

• Editor (with Titus O. Awokuse), Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
• Editorial Board, Land Economics
• Chair’s Award for Academic Excellence (outstanding research and instructional impact), Dept. of Food and Res. Econ., Univ. of Del.
• New Castle County Farmland Advisory Committee, Del., Appointed by County Executive
• Executive Board Member (elected), Northeastern Agric. and Res. Econ. Assoc.
• Faculty Advisory Board of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness, Univ. of Del.

Recent Publications:

• “Benefit transfer equivalence tests with non-normal distributions” (with Robert J Johnston). Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
• "Willingness to pay for agricultural land preservation and policy process attributes: Does the method matter?" (with Robert J. Johnston). American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007
• "Gauging support for innovative farmland preservation techniques" (with Lori Lynch). Policy Sciences 40:123-55, 2007
• "Does willingness to pay for green energy differ by source?" (with Allison Borchers and George Parsons). Energy Policy 35:3327-34, 2007
• "Four classes of farmland retention techniques: Comparative evaluation and property rights implications" (with Lori Lynch). Land Economics 82(2):189-213, 2006
• "The causal structure of land price determinants" (with Titus O. Awokuse). Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 54(2):227-45, 2006
• "An experiment on the consistency of aggregated comparison matrices in AHP" (with Rhonda Aull-Hyde and  Sevgi Erdogan). European Journal of Operational Research 171:290-95, 2006