Education:

• Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 1999.

• M.S., Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, August 1994.

• B.S., Ithaca College, 1989

 Teaching Interests:

• Food and Resource Economics

Activities and Honors:

• Outstanding Article, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1996.

Recent Publications:

• “Influencing Consumer Purchase Likelihood of Organic Food.” (with Katie Gifford) International Journal of Consumer Studies, forthcoming.

• “Using Context in Classroom Experiments: A Public Good Example” (with Daria J. Bernard) International Review of Economics Education, forthcoming.

• “Evidence of Affiliation of Values in a Repeated Trial Auction Experiment.” Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.

• “The Next New Thing: Curiosity and the Motivation to Purchase Novel Products” (with William Schulze), Economics Bulletin 3(2005): 1-8.

• “Bidding Behavior in the Multi-Unit Vickrey and Uniform Price Auctions.” (with William Schulze and Timothy Mount) Applied Economics Letters, 12(2005): 589-595.