My teaching objective is to help students understand economic fundamentals and how they apply in real-world contexts. My teaching philosophy is that students learn best by applying concepts and critical reasoning skills to real-world issues. I challenge students to question their understandings and assumptions as they apply economic principles, whether in academic scholarship, to current events, or to business issues. The goal is to develop sound economic thinking in whatever sphere the individual is working.
I currently teach at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. I teach Agribusiness Finance (ABM 32282); Economic Analysis of Policy and Regulation (ABM 4990/AAE 7990), which is a capstone courses in the Agribusiness Management degree; as well as an MBA/MS/PhD level course on the Economics of Transactions and Contracting (AAE 8520). I also teach Microeconomics for Business (FIN 7220) in the Trulaske execMBA program.
I have previously taught graduate courses on the economics of institutions and organizations, the economics of agribusiness organization, the economics of agribusiness markets and networks, advanced microeconomic theory, and corporate finance; and undergraduate courses on the agricultural marketing system, microeconomic theory, and antitrust economics.
International Teaching Experiences
In addition to my resident instruction at the University of Missouri, I have also taught short-term graduate courses or seminars at Agricultural University-Plovdiv in Bulgaria; Central European University in Budapest, Hungary; Universidad Santa Maria in Guayaquil, Ecuador; and University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. I also lecture annually in the International Bachelors Certificate program at École d’ingénieurs de Purpan in Toulouse, France.