Department of Economics
Departments | College of Arts & Sciences

Think Economics should be the study of income distribution, globalization, caring labor, wages and working conditions, equity and social justice? 

Welcome to the other Chicago School of Economics

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Economics
• Master of Arts in Economics

• Bachelor of Arts in Social Justice Studies

Economics was one of the first majors offered at Roosevelt and continues to be a center of excellence in the university, dedicated to socially responsible teaching, learning and scholarship. Economics students study the economy and how it works with a focus on questions of equality and equity as well as the more traditional economic emphasis on efficiency.

Our faculty are drawn to the study of economics by a commitment to social justice. Economics students are prepared to be socially conscious citizens and leaders in their professions, whether in business, public service, research, teaching or other careers.

Nationwide, economics graduates continue to be well paid and in demand. The American Economics Association maintains a clearinghouse of job opportunities for economists (MA and PhD). You can see it by clicking here. To see the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the economics profession in its Occupational Handbook, Sclick here.

The skills acquired in studying economics are applicable to a wide variety of job responsibilities and many occupations. Roosevelt economics graduates have pursued careers in teaching, urban planning, statistical analysis, the law, labor research, financial analysis, and journalism, among others.

The Economics Department also coordinates the program in Social Justice Studies. The Bachelor's Degree program in Social Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary program that integrates theories, methods, and substance of economics, history, political science and sociology as they bear on questions of social justice. What is social justice? What are the processes that produce injustice in our world and how do they operate? How are people working - or how might people work - to achieve social justice.

Click here to learn how to contact an economics advisor.

 

Full-Time Faculty

• Steven Balkin , Ph.D., Wayne State University(faculty web site)
• Jim Cicarelli, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• Gary Langer, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
• June Lapidus, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Ozgur Orhangazi, PhD University of Massachusetts(faculty web site)
• Sam Rosenberg, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (faculty web site)
• Stephen Ziliak, Ph.D., University of Iowa (faculty web site)

Part-Time Faculty

• Steven Antler, Ph.D. University of Connecticut
• Jennifer Clark, J.D. University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
• Rick Pretcsh, M.A. Roosevelt University
• Kate Webster, Ph.D. University of Chicago
• David Yang, M.A. University of Oklahoma

Department Chair

June Lapidus
jlapidus@roosevelt.edu
Associate Professor of Economics
Department Chair
  Chicago phone: 312-341-3765
  Chicago room: AUD876
  Chicago fax: 312-341-3762
  Mailstop: AUD760