Faculty

Jeff Felardo

Jeff Felardo
Associate Professor of Economics
felardjj@eckerd.edu
Behavioral Sciences 117
727.864.8425
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Felardo is interested primarily in natural resource and environmental economics, and applied microeconomics. His research focuses on natural resource management in the United States and Southeast Asia. Recent work studies the effect of low-flow appliance rebates on residential water use, and the feasibility of carbon credit programs and forest management in rural Thailand. He earned his Ph.D. at University of New Mexico.

Diana Fuguitt
Professor of Economics
fuguitdl@eckerd.edu
Behavioral Sciences 108
727.864.8472

Professor Fuguitt is interested primarily in international foreign exchange and trade, macroeconomics, environmental economics, and economic development in African, Asian and Latin American countries. Her research interests include global public goods, cost-benefit analysis, and African development. She received her Ph.D. from Rice University.

Peter Hammerschmidt

Peter Hammerschmidt
Professor of Economics
hammerpk@eckerd.edu
Forrer 107
727.864.8462

Professor Hammerschmidt is primarily interested in leadership development and human and social economics. He is a Senior Trainer and Research Associate on the faculty of the Management Development Institute, bringing leadership training programs to executives. He also teaches Managerial Economics and Money and Banking. His Ph.D. was awarded by Colorado State University.

Visiting faculty

Jill Collins

Jill Collins
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
collinjp@eckerd.edu
Forrer 111A
727.864.7513

Professor Collins is interested in environmental and natural resource economics. She has her Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee where her dissertation addressed problems in valuing air quality.

Emeriti

Linda Lucas
Professor Emeritus of Economics

Tom Oberhofer
Professor Emeritus of Economics