Jordan Hillman
Jordan Hillman, Ph.D, is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Department: Economics
Sabina Mlodzianowska
Sabina Mlodzianowska, Ph.D, is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Chandler Reilly
Chandler Reilly, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Alexandre Padilla
Alexandre Padilla, Ph.D., is the chair and professor of the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Kishore Kulkarni
Kishore G. Kulkarni, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
He has been teaching at MSU Denver since 1989. Kulkarni has also taught as an affiliate professor at University of Colorado in Boulder, Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado State University and Colorado School of Mines. He has received numerous awards over the years, including the Distinguished Service Award in 2004 and Extra-ordinary Service Award handed by the university President in 2010 from MSU Denver. In 2012, Kulkarni was recognized as the first “Distinguished Professor” in College of Business by the Dean at MSU Denver. In May 2017, Non-Resident Indians (NRI) Welfare Society of India honored him with the “Pravasi Ratan” award; and in March 2019, the Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) recognized him as the “Outstanding Educator Award” recipient. He also co-founded Indian Journal of Economics and Business (IJEB), which he managing from 2001-2016.
Kulkarni has authored, co-authored and contributed to nine books, some of which have become well-known textbook adoptions in American and Indian universities. The sixth edition of his “Principles of Macro-Monetary Economics” textbook was published in 2019. Kulkarni has authored and co-authored 160 refereed journal articles in Global Business Review, Indian Economic Journal and Indian Journal of Economics.
Kulkarni received his doctorate and master’s in economics from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also completed a master’s in economics and bachelor’s in economics from University of Poona, (now called Savitribai Phule Pune University), India.
Christina Huber
Christina Huber, Ph.D., is an professor in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She teaches courses in development economics, environmental economics, natural resource economics and econometrics.
Huber’s main research interests include issues of maternal and child health in developing countries, economics of the family and determinants of student academic performance. She has published in the Journal of Human Capital, Demography, the Southern Economic Journal and Applied Economics, among others.
Huber received her doctorate and master’s in economics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2008 and 2003 respectively and a bachelor’s in anthropology and environmental studies from Grinnell College in 2000.
Rey Hernandez-Julian
Rey Hernández-Julián, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His areas of expertise include Economics of education (both K-12 and higher education) and public finance policy analysis. He currently teaches Managerial Finance, Introduction to Banking and Personal Money Management.
Hernández-Julián leads and helped establish MSU Denver’s Banking Careers Pathway Program, a workforce-development program in partnership with Mi Casa Resource Center and the Community College of Aurora. The stackable credentials program seeks to give nontraditional students and current entry-level employees the chance to turn their work experience into college credits and professional certificates.
Throughout his entire time at MSU Denver, he has remained academically qualified, publishing peer-reviewed journal articles about the economics of education, religion, demography and health. He has also given over 15 conference presentations.
Rey Hernández-Julián received his doctorate degree in applied economics from Clemson University in 2005 and a bachelor’s degree in humanities from Bob Jones University in 2000.
Glenn Furton
Glenn Furton, Ph.D., is an associate professor of economics at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He currently teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Economic Approach to Politics, Managerial Economics, Policy Issues in the History of Economic Thought and Applied Business Economics.
Furton’s areas of research include the political economy of public health and environmental economics, the constitutional political economy of federalist systems, public choice, law and economics, welfare economics and Austrian economics. He has published journal articles in “Beyond Market Failure and Government Failure,” “Emergent Politics and Constitutional Drift: The Fragility of Procedural Liberalism,” “Money and the Rule of Law” and “Private Governance and the Pricing of Political Enterprises.”
Furton received both his Ph.D. and master’s in agricultural and applied economics from Texas Tech University and his bachelor’s in business with a minor in economics from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2013.