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Spring 2026: Seminar speakers

  • Friday, February 6: Conner Mullally, Associate Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida
  • Friday, February 20: Christian Vossler, J. Fred Holly Chair of Excellence in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business, at the University of Tennessee
  • Friday, March 6: Wei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech
  • Friday, March 20: Peter Howard, Economics Director at Policy Integrity, NYU
  • Friday, March 27: Jenny Aker, Daniel G. Sisler Professor of Development Economics at Cornell University
  • Friday, April 3: David Zilberman, Robinson Chair in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at UC Berkeley
  • Friday, April 10: Brian Dillon, Assistant Professor of Development Economics and Applied Econometrics, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University 
  • Friday, April 24: Shourish Chakravarty, Assistant Professor, Southern Piedmont AREC, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech
  • Wednesday, May 6: Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Friday, October 10: Michel Robe, Professor of Finance, The Patricia A. and George W. Wellde, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Finance, University of Richmond
  • Wednesday, October 22: Pratyoosh Kashyap, Research Scientist, AAEC, VT
  • Friday, October 31: Jian Ni, Professor, Pamplin/Econ, VT
  • Friday, November 7: Bo Zhou, Assistant Professor, Econ, VT at 1:30 pm
  • Friday, November 14: Yuanyuan Wen, Job Market Candidate, AAEC, VT 
  • Wednesday, November 19: Nandini Das, Econ, VT
  • Friday, December 5: Deepak Kumar, Job Market Candidate, AAEC, VT

Thurs., Feb. 20
Tim Richards
Professor, Morrison School of Agribusiness, Arizona State University

Wed., Feb. 26
Sarah Janzen
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC  

Wed., Mar. 5
Brady Deaton  
Professor, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph  

Wed., Mar. 19
David Kohl
Professor Emeritus, AAEC and President, AgriVisions, LLC

Wed., Mar. 26
Lala Ma
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Kentucky  

Wed., Apr. 2
Dale Manning
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UTK  

Wed., Apr. 16
Sungeun Yoon
Assistant Research Scientist, Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida  

Monday, Apr. 21
Becca Jablonski
Visiting Associate Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell

Wed., Apr. 23
Diane Charlton
Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University

Wed., Apr. 30
Titus Awokuse
Professor, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University

  • Wednesday, Sept. 25: Mario Ortez
  • Wednesday, Oct. 16: Klaus Moeltner
  • Wednesday, Oct. 30: Yuetong Zhang
  • Wednesday, Nov. 6: Junjie Wu
  • Wednesday, Nov. 13: Chenyang Hu
  • Monday, Nov. 18: Yoonjung Lee
  • Wednesday, Nov. 20: Leonard-Allen Quaye

Carola Grebitus

Gwen DeBoe

  • Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
  • Virtual only, Monday, Feb. 26 at 3:00 p.m.
  • LinkedIn

Charlotte Ambrozek

Wei Zhang

  • Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech
  • In person and virtual option, Monday, April 8
  • Professional webpage

Alejandro Gutierrez-Li

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell

LuLu Pi

Eric Lewis

Danea Cortez

Eric Edwards

Mary Marchant Seminar

Dr. Bevis is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University.

Dr. Fang bio

Yang Cheng

Siddharta Bora

Speaker

Day

In-person/Zoom

Nick Magnan
(University of Georgia)

Mon, Feb 20

In-person
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Lauren Chenarides
(Arizona State University)

Mon, Feb 27

In-person

Jonathan Malacarne
(University of Maine)

Mon, Mar 13

In-person

Wenying Li
(Auburn University)

Mon, Mar 27

Zoom
Laura Sands
(Virginia Tech)

Mon, Apr 03

In-person

Alex Michuda
(Cornell University)

Mon, Apr 10

In-person
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Elinor Benami
(Virginia Tech)

Mon, Apr 17

In-person

Seminar Committee

To organize, schedule, and host departmental seminars.

  • Elinor Benami
  • Zhenshan Chen (Co-Chair)
  • Chanit'a Holmes
  • Wei Zhang (Co-Chair)

Logistics

All in person seminars will take place in 302 Hutcheson Hall beginning at 11:00 am, unless otherwise noted.

We will share Zoom links as necessary, so check your inbox.