Dr. Hien Nguyen (he/they) is currently the Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences at College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME).
Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Amherst, MA
PhD in Economics | 2018 - 2024
University of Toronto | Toronto, ON
MA in Economics | 2015 - 2016
Trent University | Peterborough, ON
BA (Hon.) in Economics | 2011 - 2015
Experience
Assistant Professor of Economics and Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences | 2024 - Present
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
Instructor | 2020 - 2024
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Courses: Political Economy of Big Data; Marxian Economics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Introduction to Political Economy
Graduate Teaching Assistant | 2018 - 2020
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Courses: Graduate Applied Econometrics, Political Economy of the Environment, Intermediate Microeconomics Theory, Introductory Macroeconomic Theory
Consulting Associate, Antitrust & Competition Economics | 2016 - 2020
Charles River Associates, Toronto, ON
Graduate Teaching Assistant | 2015 - 2016
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Honors & Awards (selected)
Research Grant | 2023 - Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
PERI Dissertation Fellowship | 2022 - Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
Barnard Fellowship | 2021 - Political Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst
Doctoral Fellowship | 2001 - 2023, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Graduate Fellowship | 2018 - 2023, Department of Economics, UMass Amherst
Paul Delaney Award for Outstanding Young Philanthropist | 2016, Trent University
Graduate Fellowship | 2015, University of Toronto
Governor General’s Silver Medal | 2015, Government of Canada