We are now located in the College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Building T2 (building #508, formerly the College of Technology Building).  Please see your syllabus for office locations. If you are looking for your instructor and do not see them listed here, be sure to check our Ph.D. student directory. 

Aimee Chin
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department Chair and Professor
Labor, Development
achin@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3761 • 305N T2

 

 

 

Samuel W. Arenberg
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Hobby School of Public Affairs
Population Health and Economic Demography
sarenberg@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.0671 • Office: Bates 2-124
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Andrea Bernini
Ph.D., University of Oxford
Assistant Professor
Applied Microeconomics and Political Economy
abernini@uh.edu  •  301H T2

Erika Callicott
Ph.D., University of Houston
Visiting Professor
Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics
emcallic@cougarnet.uh.edu • 305G T2

Steven Craig
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor
Public Economics, Public Choice, Applied Microeconomics
scraig@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3812 • 301D T2

Janet Kohlhase
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor
Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Environmental Economics
jkohlhase@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3799 • 301F T2

Hyunju Lee
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor
Macroeconomics, International Economics, Financial Economics
hlee78@Central.UH.EDU  • 301P T2
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Bitaran Maden
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
Instructional Assistant Professor
Monetary Economics, Time Series Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics
maden@central.uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.2165 • 305L T2

Vikram Maheshri
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor
Applied Microeconomics, Urban Economics, Political Economy
vmaheshri@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3833 • 301B T2

Sergio Montero
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Political Economy, Development, Industrial Organization
smontero4@uh.edu  • 303B T2

Radek Paluszynski
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Associate Professor
International Economics, Macroeconomics, Information Economics
rpaluszynski@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3801 • 301C T2

David Papell
Ph.D., Columbia University
Joel W. Sailors Endowed Professor of Economics
International Economics, Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics
dpapell@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3807 • 301G T2

Dhanushka Peru
Ph.D., University of Houston
Instructional Assistant Professor
Development and Labor Economics
dperu@central.uh.edu  • Phone: 713-743-2227 • 305 C/D T2

Yona Rubinstein
Ph.D., Hebrew University
Professor
Human capital, Entrepreneurship, Inequality
yrubinstein@uh.edu  • Office 303N T2

Piruz Saboury
Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Instructional Assistant Professor
Economics of Social Enterprise
psabour2@central.uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3800 • 305B T2

Bent Sorensen
Ph.D., University of Copenhagen
Professor, Lay Professor in International Economics
Macroeconomics, Econometrics
besorensen@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3841 • 301J T2

Andrea Szabó
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Associate Professor
Industrial Organization, Development Economics
aszabo2@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3840 • 303C T2

Rebecca Achée Thornton
Ph.D., University of Houston
Director  – M.A., Applied Economics Program, Instructional Professor
Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
rthornton@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.3820 • 305P T2
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Pablo Troncoso
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Instructional Assistant Professor
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
patronco@central.uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.9730 • 305J T2
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Gergely Ujhelyi
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Ph.D. Program Director
Political Economy, Public Economics, Development Economics
gujhelyi@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3815 • 303F T2

Dietrich Vollrath
Ph.D., Brown  University
Professor 
Department of Economics
Economic Growth and Development 
devollrath@uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3806 • 303O T2
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Fan Wang
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor
Development Economics, Financial Development, Health Economics
fwang26@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.0329 • 301Q T2

Kei-Mu Yi
Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.D. Anderson Professor of Economics
International Economics, Macroeconomics
kyi3@central.uh.edu • Phone: 713.743.3331 • 303E T2

Natalia Zhivan 
Ph.D.,  Boston College 
Undergraduate Program Director, Instructional Associate Professor 
Health Economics, Aging, Applied Econometrics 
nazhivan@uh.edu  • Phone: 713.743.0505 • 305E/F T2

Emeritus Faculty

Richard Bean
Ph.D., University of Washington
Professor Emeritus
Economic History
richardnbean@sbcglobal.net

Paul Gregory
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor Emeritus, Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics
Soviet Economics, Transition Economics, Economic History, Comparative Economics, Economic Demography, Energy Economics
pgregory@uh.edu 

Thomas Mayor
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Professor Emeritus
Law and Economics
thmayor@sbcglobal.net