People Section

Auburn University

Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Mohit Anand, PhD, faculty member and division chair, Division of Business and Accounting, Miles College; Meijuan Wang, PhD, Research Management Office, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao; Ping Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; Suzan Odabasi, PhD, Assistant Professor in Economics, Usak University
Leaves: Valentina Hartarska, Visiting Professor, Montpellier Business School, France, June 2019; Denis Nadolnyak, Visiting Professor, Montpellier Business School, France, June 2019

Awards: Christiane Schroeter, Agribusiness Faculty Award, Cal Poly; Sean Hurley and Ricky Volpe, Sun West Faculty Award, Cal Poly

New Appointments: Gopinath Munisamy, Professor; Michael Adjemian, Associate Professor; John Salazar, Associate Professor
Appointment Change: Benjamin Campbell, Associate Professor
Award: Soye Shin, Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section (IBES), IBES Student Paper Competition Award 2019
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Soye Shin, PhD, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Duke-National University Singapore; Amanda Harker Steele, PhD, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Senior Economist, KeyLogic Systems Inc.; Yu Chen, PhD, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Prevention Effectiveness Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Retirements: Terence Centner, 37 years; Warren Kriesel, 31 years

New Appointments: Carlos Martins-Filho, Senior Research Fellow; Rui Benfica, Senior Research Fellow

Appointment Changes: Marc Bellemare, Full Professor, Metin Cakir, Associate Professor with tenure; Joe Ritter, Professor
Awards: Metin Cakir, CFANS Distinguished Teaching Award, 2018; Sara Jensen, University of Minnesota, Little Red Oil Can Award

Appointment Change: Wyatt Thompson, Professor
Awards: Jamille Palacios, University of Missouri, Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence; Jill Moreland, University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor; Ken Schneeberger, University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Dana Brown Haynes Distinguished Service; Judy Stallmann, University of Missouri, Truman School of Public Affairs, Mary Phillips Faculty Award
Positions taken by Recent Graduates: Annette Kendall, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri; Shih-Chuan Lin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tamkang University; Alexandre Magnier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lutgert College of Business at Florida Gulf Coast University
Honorary Position: Sarah Low, Chair-Elect, Community and Regional Economics Network of AAEA

New Appointments: John C. Beghin, Professor and Michael Yanney Chair of International Trade and Finance; Elliott J. Dennis, Assistant Professor
Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Felipe de Figueiredo Silva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clemson University; Syed Imran Ali Meerza, PhD, Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University; Tshepelayi Kabata, PhD, Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa; Eric Coufal, MS, Grain Marketing Consultant, Frontier Cooperative; Kaitlyn Cumming, MS, Supply Chain Associate, Cargill

Award: Bunny Xu, AEDE Ph.D. Candidate, The Ohio State University, 2018-2019 Bernie Erven Teaching Award

Award: Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Honor Professor Award
Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Guannan Zhao, PhD, Senior Analyst, NBC Universal
Retirement: John Penson, 44 years

Honorary Position: Jim Pease, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech.
Retirement: Everett Peterson, 30 years of service
Visitors: Zhuo Chen, Associate Professor, University of Georgia, Guest Lecturer, April 2019; Keith Fulie, USDA ERS, Guest Lecturer, April 2019; Dhamu Thamodaran, EVP, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Hedging Officer, Smithfield Foods, Guest Lecturer, April 2019