Involved People

Director of the Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity and Professor of Economics

tmathew7@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2072
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 412

Economics PhD (Stony Brook University)
fields of specialization: game theory, industrial organization, public economics

Associate Professor of Economics

jboudre5@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-3413
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 410

Economics PhD (University of Connecticut)
fields of specialization: game theory, contests, social choice

Professor of Conflict Management and Economics

mmarktan@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-7750
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 408

Economics PhD (Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany)
fields of specialization: conflict economics, history of economic thought, comparative economics

Assistant Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis and Associate Professor of Economics

focchino@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6319
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 409

Economics PhD (University of Chicago)
Fields of Specialization: macroeconomics and financial stability

Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis and Professor of Economics

abagchi@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6720
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 321

Economics PhD (Vanderbilt University)
fields of specialization: industrial economics, law enforcement and homeland security

Professor of Economics

jbradbu2@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2369
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 432

Economics PhD (George Mason University)
fields of specialization: public economics, sports economics

Professor of Mathematics

sellerme@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6129
Marietta Campus, 850 Mathematics, Room 235

Mathematics PhD (Emory University)
fields of specialization: differential equations, game theory, auction theory

Professor of Public Administration

jherbel@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-7746

Political Science PhD (University of Oklahoma)
fields of specialization: history of public administration, public ethics, administrative reform

Professor of Economics

bkatzman@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6365
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 318

Economics PhD (Duke University)
fields of specialization: applied microeconomics, auction theory

Principal Lecturer of Economics

zkelani@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-7434
Marietta Campus, 846 Crawford Lab, Room 112

Economics MS (Marmara University)
fields of specialization: behavioral economics/finance, political economy/conflict economics, generative AI & economic decision-making

Professor of Economics

lnoiset@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-4371
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 317

Economics PhD (Tulane University)
fields of specialization: public economics, taxation, urban economics

Senior Lecturer of Economics & Finance

mpatrono@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6578
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 437A

Economics MS (Florida State University)
fields of specialization: comparative economic systems, ethics of economic systems

Professor of Entrepreneurship

sphelan5@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6582
Kennesaw Campus, 3207 Campus Loop Road, Room 106

Economics PhD (La Trobe University)
fields of specialization:  entrepreneurship, organizational economics, and Austrian economics

Professor of Political Science

trotnem@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6908
Kennesaw Campus, 402 Social Sciences Bldg, Room 5044

Political Science PhD (Ohio State University)
fields of specialization: comparative politics, international political economy, Russian and post-Soviet politics

Director of Education Economics Center and Professor of Economics

bscafidi@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-2501
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 405

Economics PhD (University of Virginia)
fields of specialization: economics of education, economics of the public sector

Professor of Economics & Finance

jschwar7@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6583
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 324

Economics PhD (University of Maryland)
fields of specialization: applied microeconomic theory, auctions, environmental economics

Professor of Political Science

kswint@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-3597
Kennesaw Campus, 402 Social Sciences Bldg, Room 5052

Political Science PhD (Georgia State University)
fields of specialization: campaigns and elections, mass media, political history

Part-time Assistant Professor of Economics

ncoope25@kennesaw.edu
(470) 578-6091
Kennesaw Campus, 560 Burruss Building, Room 132

Economics PhD (George Mason University)
fields of specialization: monetary theory and policy, history of monetary institutions, Austrian economics