Mark Stater earned his PhD in economics at the University of Oregon in June 2004 under the guidance of Larry Singell, Jr. His first academic job was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia. He worked there for four years, teaching Microeconomics, Policy Analysis, Data Analysis and Applications, Program Evaluation, and Education Policy to Masters of Public Administration students. In July of 2008, he moved to Hartford and started work at Trinity. He has since taught Principles of Economics, Public Finance, and Econometrics. He is teaching two new courses this year: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Mathematical Economics. Mark's primary research interests are in the areas of human capital theory, the economics of higher education, and urban and regional economics. His research has been published in refereed journals such as Economic Inquiry, Industrial Relations, the Economics of Education Review, the American Educational Research Journal, and Policy Sciences. New articles are forthcoming in Economic Inquiry, the Review of Regional Studies and the Eastern Economic Journal. Mark currently lives in downtown Hartford with his wife Keely and their cat Cleo. He enjoys watching football, going to Six Flags, and listening to metal.