Faculty
Ram Acharya
Ram N. Acharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He received an M.A in Economics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, an M.S. in Economics and Management from the University Pertanian Malaysia, Malaysia, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University.
His primary research interests are in food safety, logistics management, spatial competition, production efficiency, technology adoption, and demand analysis. He is currently involved in research projects related to food defense, food safety, market power, and fresh produce marketing.
Acharya's recent publications have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Business and Economics Research, Journal of Economics and Business, Applied Economics Letters, e-Service Journal, Health Economics & Behavior Journal, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Office: GT 381B
Phone: 575-646-2524
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: acharyar@nmsu.edu
Van Bullock
Van Bullock received his B.A. and M.B.A. in Agricultural Economics from New Mexico State University.
His areas of concentration are Rural Appraisal, Real Estate Investment, and Applied Economics.
As a College Associate Professor, his areas of special interest are Real Estate, Applied Economics, and Agricultural Marketing. He teaches Introductory Agricultural Economics and Business, and Rural Appraisal.
Office: GT 379A
Phone: 575-646-4326
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: vbullock@nmsu.edu
Roger Beck
Roger Beck is a College Professor and co-PI for the AWATT project in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department. He received his B.A. in Biology with a minor in General Agriculture from Goshen College, took Masters level courses in Economics and Statistics at Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Pennsylvania State University. Beck's areas of expertise are: Resource Economics, Regional Economics and Economic Development. Beck was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University where he developed a new course in Regional Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Marketing. He was promoted to Associate and Full Professor in the Department of Agribusiness Economics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he taught agricultural statistics, economic development and graduate seminars in project analysis and regional economic methods. He has directed more than 30 Master's theses, two of which have received outstanding thesis awards and co-directed 3 Ph.D. dissertations in Economics and Geography. He has been teaching intermediate algebra and matrix algebra and linear programming in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at NMSU.
Office: GT 350
Phone: 575-646-1162
Fax: 575-646-3808
Email: rogerb@nmsu.edu
Lowell Catlett
Lowell Catlett is a Regent's Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and Extension Economics and the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics.
He received a BS from West Texas State, a MS from New Mexico State University and a PhD in Economics from Iowa State.
His areas of expertise are: Marketing Economics, Futures Markets, and Production Economics. His interests include: Advising and teaching both undergraduate and graduate students, Futures Market Research, Futuristic Planning and Forecasting.
He is the author of numerous books and articles and won the university's highest award to a professor, the Westhafer Award. He works nationally and internationally with corporations and organizations doing futuristic planning concerning the impacts of technology on careers, lifestyles and the economy. Catlett also works with the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Labor, Interior, Defense, Education, Energy and the World Bank. He has been a visiting professor or delivered invited presentations at over 75 universities including Harvard, MIT, Cornell and the University of Illinois.
Office: GT 220
Phone: 575-646-3748
Fax: 575-646-5975
E-mail: lcatlett@nmsu.edu
Cynda Clary
Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and currently Interim Department Head of Agricultural and Extension Education.
Cynda Clary received her B.S. from California Polytechnic State University (Major: Agricultural Business Management), a M.S.M. from Purdue University (Major: Management, Option: Marketing) and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University (Major: Economics, Minor: Statistics). Her areas of special interest are: Leadership in Higher Education, Student Success/Retention Issues and Evaluation of Advertising/Promotion Programs.
Clary is currently the president-elect of NMSU's chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. She also coordinates the NM State FFA Agricultural Marketing Competition. Clary has served as the faculty advisor for many student organizations including NAMA, the NMSU Chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS), the College Ambassadors, Alpha Zeta, CERES, and the RhoMates.
Clary has received numerous awards and recognition, a few of which are as follows:
2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, Less Than 10 Years Experience, American Agricultural Economics Association
2001 USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Western Region Recipient
2001 Honorary State FFA Degree, New Mexico State FFA Association
1998 CAHE Distinguished Teaching Award
1997 NMSU, Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence
1995 Outstanding Advisor, National Agri-Marketing Association
Office: GT 111
Phone: 575-646-4511
Fax: 575-646-4082
E-mail: cclary@nmsu.edu
Terry Crawford
Terry Crawford received his Bachelors of Science in Agriculture from New Mexico State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, and his Master of Science and PhD from Cornell University, Applied Economics and Management Department, formerly Department of Agricultural Economics.
He is currently the interim department head, co-PI for the Afghanistan Water and Technology Transfer Project (AWATT), and utility infielder for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He is working on an animal identification project with Rhonda Skaggs, with the Center for New Mexico Studies on Trade, Research and Education and is the New Mexico Homeland Security Coordinator for the College of Agriculture and Home Economics.
Office: GT 387
Phone: 575-646-3215
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: crawford@nmsu.edu
Dave DeWitt
Dave DeWitt, aka "The Pope of Peppers," is one of the foremost authorities in the world on chile peppers and spicy foods. Dave researched and wrote numerous magazine and newspaper articles on chile peppers in the late 1970s. In 1984, St. Martin's Press published his first cookbook, The Fiery Cuisines, co-authored with Nancy Gerlach. That book is still in print more than seventeen years later by Ten Speed Press. In 1987, Dave and Nancy approached a local publisher, and the three launched Chile Pepper magazine with a mere 212 subscribers. By 1995, with Dave as the editor-in-chief, the magazine had surpassed 50,000 subscribers with a total circulation exceeding 80,000. The magazine was sold in 1996 and Dave launched Fiery Foods & Barbecue Business Magazine, a trade publication. That magazine was converted to a consumer publication, Fiery Foods & BBQ, in 2002.
Dave Dewitt is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He is not permanently housed on the New Mexico State University campus.
Joel A. Diemer
Joel Diemer is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, he received a B.S. in Urban Planning and a M.S. in Economics from Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Colorado State University.
His areas of special interest are: Strategic Planning and Organizational Design in Non Pay-for-Work, Environments, Participative Democracy, and World Citizenship.
He teaches various Special Topics and Special Problems classes in Agricultural Economics.
Office: GT 390
Phone:575-646-2825
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: jodiemer@nmsu.edu
Ayesha Enver
Ayesha Enver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University. She recieved her B. A. in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and her M. A. and Ph. D. from the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University.
Enver's research interests are in development economics with a focus on regional economies, economic geography, and poverty. Her current research uses numerical methods to predict the impact of rural-urban migration on the intergenerational dynamics of rural household welfare. In addition, Enver has worked on projects for the Appalachian Regional Commission that assessed potential forward looking distress indicators for the Appalachian Region.
She teaches a Regional Economic Modeling course for the Doctor of Economic Development program that is jointly administered by the Department of Economics and International Business and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at NMSU.
Office: GT 343
Phone: 575-646-2672
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: aenver@nmsu.edu
Constance L. Falk
Connie Falk is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. She holds a BA in English, a MBA in Business Administration, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University.
Her expertise is in the fields of: Agricultural Marketing of Organics, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, Farm Markets, International Development Projects, and Computer Applications for Agriculture. Falk teaches: World Food Problems and Managing a Community Supported Farm through the Honors Program, Mastering Financial Statements, a Spring Break Study Tour to Latin America through the AEAB department and an Organic Vegetable Production class in conjunction with the Horticulture Department. Her research interests are cooperative development, the economics of small scale farming, Community Supported Agriculture, organic agriculture, and the feasibility analysis of value added agriculture. Her current research projects focus on winter vegetable markets, hoop houses for season extension in berry production, killed mulch systems, and a student-run organic Community Supported Agriculture farm on campus.
Falk was recognized as the 2004 Benefactor of Sustainable Agriculture during the New Mexico Organic Farming and Gardening Expo sponsored by the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission and won first prize in the NMSU Library Haiku Contest.
Office:GT 342
Phone:575-646-4731
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:cfalk@nmsu.edu
John Fowler
John Fowler is a Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and the coordinator for the Range Improvement Task Force. He holds a BS in Forestry from Iowa State University; a MS in Agriculture with a major in Agricultural Economics from NMSU; and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University.
His fields of concentration are in Resource-Range Economics, Production Economics, and Public Land Policy. Fowler's special interests are: the interface between forest and rangelands with respect to environmental, production, and institutional tradeoffs; and the Economic opportunity of costs of public land policy. He teaches Ranch Economics.
Office: GT 366
Phone: 575-646-2841
Fax: 575-646-3522
E-mail:jofowler@nmsu.edu
William Gorman
Bill Gorman is a Professor Emeritus in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He holds a B.S. in General Agriculture and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from University of Illinois, and a Ph.D Oregon State University, Agricultural Economics, Minor: Economics & Statistics.
His fields of concentration are in: Agricultural Business Feasibility, High Value Crops, International Competitiveness, International Trade and Marketing. Gorman's areas of special interest are: International Marketing, Impacts of the Information Revolution on the structure of global food and agribusiness firms, and Vinticulture. He is currently involved in the Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitization (IAER)project, the AWATT project, and the Jordan Project. Gorman teaches the NAMA Market Analysis class and is the NAMA sponsor.
Office:GT 353E
Phone575-522-3101
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:wigorman@nmsu.edu
Jerry M. Hawkes
Jerry Hawkes is a Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from New Mexico State University. His areas of expertise are in: farm and ranch business management and computer applications for agriculture. His research interests are: financial diversity in agricultural, production economics as it is related to agriculture, crop and livestock cost and return estimates and applied production economics. He is currently working with the IAER and Jordan projects. Hawkes teaches Agribusiness Management Principles and Life with Microcomputers, Macroeconomic Theory and Microeconomic Theory.
Hawkes was named Advisor of the Year in 2001, Agricultural and Extension Education Outstanding Advisor in 2002, Teacher of the Year AXED in 2002, and a Gamma Sigma Inductee. He received the 2002 NACTA Teaching Award, the 2002 AXED Club Teaching Award, the 2003 Sam Steel Award, and the 2003 National FFA Award. Hawkes was recognized in Who's Who Among Professors in 2004.
Office:GT 385
Phone:575-646-2322
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail:jhawkes@nmsu.edu
Brian H. Hurd
Brian Hurd is an Associate Professor whose principle research examines the ways in which human systems and economies interact with water, land, and climatic resources. His courses in both water resource management and world food systems receive wide praise from students from across the university. Prior to coming to NMSU, he was ten years in private consulting where he examined the socio-economic impacts from and adaptations to changes in climate and climate variability. Originally from Colorado and an alum of CU Boulder, he earned MS and PhD degrees from UC Davis. This was followed by a year spent as a post-doctorate scholar at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, where he continued his doctoral research on risk management and the economics of integrated pest management practices in large scale cotton systems.
Office:GT 374
Phone:575-646-2674
Fax:575-646-3522
E-mail:bhurd@nmsu.edu
Jim Libbin
Jim Libbin is a professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department and is currently the Interim Academic Dean for the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at New Mexico State University.
He teaches Agribusiness Management, Advanced Agribusiness Management, Economics of Baseball, Applied Production Economics, Agribusiness Financial Management, and various Special Problems and Seminar classes. Libbin is also involved with the IAER and Jordan projects.
Office:GT 221
Phone: 575-646-3210
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: jlibbin@nmsu.edu
Jay Lillywhite
Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and PI of the IAER project, Jay Lillywhite received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2003 from Purdue University specializing in agribusiness marketing and natural resource management. He holds an M.S. degree in Economics from Utah State University and a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University.
Lillywhite has a variety of research interests. Areas examined in his research include: ethnic markets for food, econometric methods for use with survey level data, direct marketing, and value added marketing. He received the 2008 College of Agriculture and Home Economics Distinguished Teaching Award.
Office:GT 381A
Phone:575-646-5321
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail:lillywhi@nmsu.edu
Carlos D. Mayen
Carlos D. Mayen serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at New Mexico State University. His teaching appointment includes an undergraduate level course in marketing and pricing of agricultural products, and a graduate level course in marketing research methods. The scope of his research addresses marketing and production issues of agribusinesses in the dairy and horticultural industries.
Mayen earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and an M.S. in Horticulture from Purdue University.
Office: GT 341
Phone: 575-646-1819
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: cmayen@nmsu.edu
Hiroshi Mori
Hiroshi Mori is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan and an Adjunct Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business at NMSU. He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Tokyo University and did his post-doc at Purdue University.
His current research interest is the analysis of food consumption from the age perspective. Mori's most recent publication is "Cohort Analysis of Japanese Food Consumption - Old and Young Generations", Senshu University Press, 2001.
Office: Hiroshi Mori is not permanently housed on the NMSU-Las Cruces campus
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E-mail: hymori48@hotmail.com
Mori is currently out of the country.
Paul O'Connell
Paul O'Connell is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He earned his BS in Biochemistry and Dairy Science from the University of Minnesota. He obtained a MS in Agricultural Economics from Colorado State University and a PhD in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Wisconsin.
O'Connell's professional interests are in Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural/Environmental issues, and International/Rural Economic Development. He has worked as a Staff Economist with a large dairy co-op in Minnesota, a Research Economist and Administrator with the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona and Wisconsin, a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education in the USDA, and a Rural Development Specialist and Trainer with the World Bank. Before coming to NMSU, O'Connell taught Macro and Micro Economics at Montgomery College in Maryland.
Office: GT 348
Phone: 575-646-1088
Cell: 240-205-9128
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: pauloco@nmsu.edu
Hamdy Oushy
Hamdy Oushy is a College Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, and a Rangeland Management and Forage Production Systems Specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service. He is working on the Afghanistan Water and Technology Transfer Project (AWATT) and on the Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Project (IAER).
He received a BS in Agricultural Sciences from the College of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt; a MS in Agronomy from Zagazik University, Egypt; a MS in Range Sciences from New Mexico State University with a minor in Agronomy; and a PhD in Range Sciences with minors in Agronomy and in Experimental Statistics from New Mexico State University.
His areas of expertise are: Rangeland Management, Forage Production and Alfalfa Marketing Systems in the Middle East, International Project Management and Training, and Middle East Agricultural Systems. He has over 28 years of research, teaching, extension, technology transfer and training in the Middle East, Africa, and Egypt. His interests include: Advising and teaching both undergraduate and graduate students, and US-Middle East International Cooperation in Agriculture Development and Marketing.
Oushy was a Professor of Rangeland Management and Forage Production Systems at the Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center in Egypt, before returning to NMSU.
Office: GT 353A
Phone: 575-646-1162
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: hamdy@nmsu.edu
J. Michael Patrick
Michael Patrick is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and Community Resource & Economic Development Specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service. He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.S. in Community Development from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.
His areas of expertise are: community economic development, rural development, business development and entrepreneurship. He is currently involved in the IAER and AWATT projects. Patrick has over 20 years of teaching, research, and community economic development activity in the U.S.- Mexico border region and Latin America. He is co-editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Office: GT 346
Phone: 575-646-7194
Cell: 575-202-4253
Fax:505-646-3808
E-mail: jmpat@nmsu.edu
Anil Rupasingha
Anil Rupasingha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and an Economic Development Specialist with the Cooperative Extension Service. Rupasingha is currently involved in the AWATT project.He holds a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University, and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka.
Before coming to NMSU, he has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at American University of Sharjah in the U.A.E., a Senior Research Associate in the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development at Penn State University, and an Postdoctoral Scholar in the TVA Rural Studies at the University of Kentucky.
Office: GT 353B
Phone: 575-646-5093
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: anilr@nmsu.edu
Rhonda Skaggs
Rhonda Skaggs is currently a Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of food and agricultural policy, agricultural structure, agricultural ethics, and the future of the food and agricultural system. Her B.S. is in General Agriculture, Colorado State University (1981); M.S., in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Colorado State University (1985); and Ph.D. in Economics, Utah State University (1989). She grew up on a farm in eastern Colorado, and joined NMSU in August 1989.
Skaggs' current research projects include analysis of irrigation practices in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (as part of the Rio Grande Basin Initiative), attitudes toward agriculture, government, and the environment in New Mexico, U.S.-Mexico livestock trade, and the southwest region chile pepper industry. Skaggs teaches courses in agricultural policy and agricultural issues.
Office: GT 379D
Phone:575-646-2401
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: rskaggs@nmsu.edu
Rhonda Skaggs is involved in the following research initiatives at NMSU:
L. Allen Torell
Allen Torell is a professor in Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business. He holds a BS in Agricultural Education and a MS in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nevada and a PhD in Economics from Utah State University.
Torell's expertise is in: computer applications, farm and ranch management, public land policy, natural resources economics, and ranch/range economics. His areas of special interest are: Range Economics, Resource Economics, Ranch Planning, Production Economics, Agricultural Policy, and Operations Research. Torell teaches Advanced Microcomputer Applications, Production Economics and Econometrics.
Office: GT 379C
Phone:575-646-4732
Fax: 575-646-3808
E-mail: atorell@nmsu.edu
Frank Ward
Frank Ward is a Professor in the Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business Department at New Mexico State University. He holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Economics from Colorado State University.
Ward's expertise is water policy. He is currently involved in the AWATT project. He is the author of numerous journal articles, research reports, and book chapters. Ward has written two books: Valuing Nature with Travel Cost Models. 2000 with D.J. Beal published by Edward Elgar (UK) and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Prentice-Hall, scheduled for 2005.
Ward teaches Water Resource Economics and Natural Resource Economics.
Office: GT 371
Phone: 575-646-1220
Fax:575-646-3808
E-mail: fward@nmsu.edu
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