Research Scholars

Yeva Nersisyan

Yeva Nersisyan is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Associate Professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College. She received her B.A. in economics from Yerevan State University in Armenia, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a macroeconomist working […]

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Neal J. Wilson

Neal Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Since 2014 he has been a research consultant for the Center for Economic Information where he focuses on the application of Geographic Information Systems towards a better understanding of

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Panayotis Giannakouros

Panayotis Giannakouros is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, an adjunct faculty member in economics at Mary Baldwin University and is Systems Adviser and Research Associate at the Center for Computational Mathematics and Modeling at James Madison University. He develops and applies data science methods and political economy approaches to problems of

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Ruchira Sen

Ruchira Sen has defended her PhD dissertation on March 23, 2018. Her dissertation presents a non-capitalocentric framework to the neoliberal Empire of Capital, studying the historical development of empire from the viewpoint of households and States. Her focus is the commodification of the bodies and labor of women. Sen substantiates the claim that households and

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Salewa Olawoye

Salewa Olawoye is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Assistant Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at York University. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Her research focuses on heterodox approaches

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William O. Saas

William O. Saas is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies in the Department of Communication at Louisiana State University. He earned his Ph. D. in Rhetoric from the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at Pennsylvania State University in 2014. Dr. Saas specializes in the rhetoric

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Poulomi Dasgupta

Poulomi Dasgupta is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and an Assistant Professor at Franklin University Switzerland in the department of Economics and Finance.  She is keenly interested in developing alternative approaches to understanding economic development and using these approaches to evaluate the impact of various developmental programs in developing countries.

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Richard Twumasi

Richard Twumasi

Richard Twumasi is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He completed his B.A. in Economics at the University of Ghana and his M.Sc. in Economics at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland. Richard is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research interests include African political

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Linda Matar

Linda Matar is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. Her research and teaching involve the political economy and economic development of the Arab Near East and Southeast Asia. She is the author of The Political Economy of Investment in Syria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also co-editor of Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War (Palgrave

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Jana Jagodick

Dr. Jana Jagodick is a Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, a social researcher, and the GISP Director of Research & Innovation for Namibia. She works on innovative projects with the team members of University of Namibia, Namibia University of Science and Technology, and their international partners. Before becoming a social researcher,

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