Looking Local

The UWM Economics Department is the major source of economics PhDs for the state of Wisconsin.

Our graduates work at the UW campuses in La Crosse, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Whitewater and River Falls.  They serve on the faculties of Edgewood College, Lakeland University, Marquette University, Mount Mary University and St. Norbert College.  They are employed by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Robert W. Baird and Wells Fargo.

Among the academic crew two of our own are ranked by IDEAS/RePEC as among the best researchers in the state  Well done to Benjamin Artz (PhD 2008) and Chad Cotti (PhD 2006).

Great job to all and many thanks for making us look good here at home!

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.