Dennis R. Appleyard

Dennis R. Appleyard is James B. Duke Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for his undergraduate work and the University of Michigan for his Master's and Ph.D. work. He joined the economics faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966 and received the university-wide Tanner Award for "Excellence in Inspirational Teaching of Undergraduate Students" in 1983. He moved to his current position at Davidson College in 1990. At Davidson, he has been Chair of the Department of Economics and was Director of the college's Semester-in-India Program in fall 1996 and fall 2008, and the Semester-in-India and Nepal Program in fall 2000. In 2004 he received Davidson's Thomas Jefferson Award for teaching and service.

Professor Appleyard has taught economic principles, intermediate microeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, money and banking, international economics, and economic development. His research interests lie in international trade theory and policy and in the Indian economy. Published work, much of it done in conjunction with Professor Field, has appeared in the American Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, History of Political Economy, Indian Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education, and Journal of International Economics, among others. He has also done consulting work for the World Bank, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (in Islamabad, Pakistan). Professor Appleyard derives genuine pleasure from working with students, and he thinks that teaching keeps him young in spirit, since his students are always the same age! He is also firmly convinced that having the opportunity to teach international economics in this age of growing globalization is a rare privilege and an enviable challenge.

Alfred J. Field, Jr.

Alfred J. Field is a Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Iowa State University and joined the faculty at Carolina in 1967. Field has taught courses in international economics and economic development at both the graduate and undergraduate level and has directed numerous Senior Honors theses and Masters theses. He has served as principal member or director of nearly 100 Ph.D. dissertations, duties that he continues to perform. In addition, he has served as Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair/Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics, and Acting Department Chair. In 1966, he received the Department's Jae Yeong Song and Chunuk Park Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2006 he received the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill John L. Sanders Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Service. He also served on the Advisory Boards of several university organizations, including the Institute for Latin American Studies.

Professor Field researches in the areas of international trade and economic development. He has worked in Latin America and China, as well as with a number of international agencies in the United States and Europe, primarily on trade and development policy issues. His research interests lie in the areas of trade policy and adjustment and development policy, particularly as they relate to trade, agriculture, and household decision making in developing countries. Another of Field's ongoing lines of research addresses trade and structural adjustment issues in the United States, focusing on the textile and apparel industries and the experience of unemployed textile and apparel workers in North Carolina starting in the 1980s. He maintains an active interest in theoretical trade and economic integration issues, as well as the use of econometric and computable general equilibrium models in analyzing the effects of trade policy, particularly in developing countries.

Steven L. Cobb

Steven L. Cobb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Texas. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Economic Education and is Chair of the Department of Economics. He attended Southwestern University for his undergraduate work in Economics and Political Science. Cobb was a student of Appleyard and Field and received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1987 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the faculty at the University of North Texas in 1986 and teaches principles of microeconomics and principles of macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and courses in international economics, comparative economic systems, economic development, and history of economic thought, at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Cobb is a three-time recipient of the Mortar Board Top Prof Award and the 2005 Recipient of the Southern Economic Association's Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award. His Center for Economic Education received the 2005 Albert Beekhuis Award for Centers of Excellence in Economic Education from the National Council on Economic Education, and Cobb was presented the 2006 Bessie B. Moore Service Award by the National Association of Economic Educators.

Professor Cobb researches in the areas of economic education, international trade, and economic development. His research interests lie in the areas of internationalization of university curriculum, the impact of attitudes on student performance in economics, cross cultural training and technology transfer, and U.S.–Mexico trade and immigration. Cobb has also been involved as a consultant and trainer for the National Council on Economic Education's Training of Trainers program in the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and is designed to provide materials and training to allow economists in these nations to teach economics from a market perspective. Cobb has conducted training programs in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Mexico, and South Africa. He enjoys the international aspect of his work and tries to integrate this experience into his teaching.