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
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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
Email: mccutcheong@cofc.edu

Faculty Research Fellows

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

Kamyar Goudarzi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
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Research Area: competitive dynamics and corporate strategy with a focus on mergers and acquisitions

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

Audrey Redford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics & Business, Hamden-Sydney College
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Research Area: political economy of drug and alcohol regulation

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

Kimberly Tribou, Ph.D., CPA
Assistant Professor of Accounting
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Research Area: budget slack and performance, audit performance, audit fees, and other accounting topics using federal government entities for context

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

Market Process Scholars

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

Lilliana Myers
Class of 2025
Major: Economics & Political Science

Hunter Poe
Class of 2026
Major: Business Administration

Lexi Redd
Class of 2026
Major: Economics & International Studies

Adelaide Stanley
Class of 2025
Major: Economics & Biology

Public Choice Associates

Abby Elmore
Class of 2025
Major: Political Science

Christian Wright
Class of 2025
Major: Political Science & Religious Studies