Our People

The Center for Public Choice & Market Process is made of up faculty, staff, and students from the College of Charleston and other academic institutions.

Staff

Director
Pete Calcagno, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Email: cpm@cofc.edu
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Director of Student Programs
Beatriz Maldonado, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
Email: maldonadobirdba@cofc.edu
Faculty Page

Reasearch Director
Jordan Ragusa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Email: ragusajm@cofc.edu
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Program Assistant
Melinda Patience, M.S.
Email: patiencem@cofc.edu
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Marketing & Communications
Genny McCutcheon

Faculty Research Fellows

Jennifer Baker, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
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Research Area: virtue ethics, ancient ethical theories

Calvin Blackwell, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
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Research Area: experimental economics, asset markets, public finance

Gregory Caskey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics, The Citadel
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Research Area: applied microeconomics, economic development, political economy

William McCorkle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Teacher Education
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Research Area: immigration beliefs among educators, experiences of asylum seekers at the Mexican-U.S. border, relationship between beliefs in free markets and immigration

Chris Mothorpe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics
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Research Area: urban and real estate economics focusing on the evaluation of amenities and public goods

Russell Sobel, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship, The Citadel
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Research Area: economic policy and entrepreneurship

Michelle Vachris, Ph.D.
Professor of Management, Business, & Economics; Virginia Wesleyan University
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Research Area: public choice, governing knowledge commons, economics in literature

Douglas Walker, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
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Research Area: economic and social impacts of legalized gambling, relationships between casinos and tourism sectors

Market Process Scholars

Grayson Foley
Class of 2025
Major: Economics & Statistics

Riley Haas
Class of 2024
Major: Economics & Mathematics

Corey Holcomb
Class of 2025
Major: Finance & Commercial Real Estate Finance

Hunter Poe
Class of 2026
Major: Business Administration

Adelaide Stanley
Class of 2025
Major: Economics & Biology