| On academic leave spring 2008
Office: 231 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-8092
E-mail: markusen@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: arts, culture and economic development; regional economics and planning; industrial organization; economic development, local, state, regional; industrial and occupational planning; economic impact of high technology, military spending
Ann Markusen, professor, is the director of the Institute's Project on Regional and Industrial Economics. Currently, her research focuses on occupational approaches to regional development and on the arts, high tech and defense activities as regional economic stimulants.
Before joining the Humphrey Institute, Markusen was State of New Jersey Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers University. She has held faculty positions at Northwestern, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Colorado. Markusen has been an economic policy fellow with the Brookings Institution and a research economist with the Michigan speaker of the house's office. She was a Fulbright Lecturer in regional development economics in Brazil and has written on European, Korean and Japanese regional economies as well as on North American cities and regions. From 1995 to 2002, she served as a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and in 2002, as a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California.
Markusen served six years on the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy and as chair from 1998-2000. She was elected president of the North American Regional Science Association in 2000. In 2001-02, Markusen served as a member of the President's Commission on Offsets in International Trade. She won the McCoy Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning in 2005 and the Prestigious Alonso Prize in regional science in 2006.
She holds doctorate and master degrees in economics from Michigan State University and an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page.
Syllabi includes current and previous academic years only. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to the Humphrey Institute Student Support Services.
Spring 2007
PA 5590-1 - Arts, Cities, and Economic Development
PA 8204-1 - Regional, Economic, & Workforce Development
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