education:

City College of New York – B.A. Economics, Magna Cum Laude (1989)
University of California - Riverside – M.A. Economics (1991)
University of California - Riverside - Ph.D. Economics (1997)

professional experience

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006 - present
Chair, Africana Studies Program Gettysburg College, 2002-2006
Associate Professor of Economics and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, 2004-2006
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Studies, Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University 1999 –2002
Assistant Professor of Economics and Africana Studies, Gettysburg College, 1997-1999, 2002-2004
Global Studies Scholar, Gettysburg College, 1996-97
Lecturer, Economics Department, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico 1993-1994

research interests

The political economy of development with particular interest in Africa and issues of inequality, poverty, rural development and the environment
Marxian Class analysis
The impact of East Asian development on African countries

professional activities

Editorial Board – Rethinking Marxism

grants

Contributor, NSF Research for Undergraduates Grant, Title: “Land conservancy and resource management at nature preserves in the Mid-Atlantic states.” Gettysburg College, June 2003-2005, Amount $168K.
Co-principal Investigator, NSF Grant for Undergraduate Science Education, Curriculum Development and Instrumentation. Title: “Discovery-Based Science and Mathematics in an Environmental Context,” Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University, May 2001-2004, Amount $400K.

Selected publications

Books:
An Employment-Targetted Economic Plan for Kenya (with Robert Pollin and James Heintz), UNDP and PERI 2007 (Forthcoming Edward Elgar).
Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars: A Study of Income and Development in Kenya, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England (December 2000).
Chapters in Books:
“Income, Working Standards and Labor Mobility: Planning for an Integrated African Economy” ( with Patrick Mason) in Sylvain Boko and Diery Seck (eds) NEPAD and the Future of Economic Policy in Africa, African World Press, New Jersey (2008).
“Untying the Gordian Knot: The Question of Land Reform in Ethiopia” (with Gebru Mersha), in A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi (ed.) Land Policies, Poverty Reduction and Public Action, Routledge Press, (January 2007).
“Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Uneven Development in Rural India and Kenya” (with Anjan Chakrabarti and Stephen Cullenberg). in Robert Pollin et al (eds.) Egalitarian Development in the Era of Globalization, Edward Elgar Press (July 2006).
Journal Articles:
“Excavating for Economics in Africana Studies” (With Patrick Mason) Journal of Black Studies. (Forthcoming 2008).
“Deconstructing the Peasantry: Class and Development in Rural Kenya” (with S. Cullenberg) Critical Sociology, Volume 29, Issue 1, April 2003 pp. 67-88.
“Income Distribution and Dualism: The Case of Kenya,” Review of Development Economics, October 2000, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp 326-339.
“Environmental Degradation and Poverty in Less Industrialized Nations,” (with T. Kelly) Frontera Norte, Núm. Especial: Pobreza, 1994, pp. 77-89.
“Social and Ecological Sustainability in the Use of Biotic Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa,” (with C. Perrings) Ambio, Volume 22 No. 2-3, May 1993, pp.110-116.