Meet the IPE Faculty

Brad Dillman

Brad Dillman (Associate Professor and Program Director) received his BA in Political Science from the Ohio State University in 1984 and his MA, MPhil, and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 1987, 1988, and 1994. He teaches courses on the illicit global economy, Middle East politics, intellectual property rights, and IPE. His research interests include international smuggling, transnational crime, and Middle East political economy. He is co-author with David Balaam of the 5th edition of the Introduction to International Political Economy textbook. He is currently writing a new book on the illicit global economy.

bdillman@pugetsound.edu  
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Nick Kontogeorgopoulos

Nick Kontogeorgopoulos (Professor) received his BA in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992, MA in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1994, and his PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia in 1998.  Nick teaches courses on tourism, Southeast Asian political economy, and economic development. His research interests include tourism geography, ecotourism, community-based development, and the political economy of Southeast Asia. 

konto@pugetsound.edu   
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Pierre Ly

Pierre Ly (Assistant Professor) received his BA, MA and PhD (2007) in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics in France. He teaches courses in International Political Economy and Economics. His research interests include development economics and Non-Government Organizations.

ply@pugetsound.edu

Elizabeth Nunn

Lisa Nunn is Visiting Assistant Professor of International Political Economy and Economics. She earned her BS in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Puget Sound (1985) and her MA (1986) and PhD (1989) in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.  She has spent most of her professional career teaching Economics and International Political Economy at the University of Puget Sound.  She participated in the original faculty group that developed the International Political Economy program at Puget Sound and contributed to the first edition of Balaam and Veseth’s Introduction to International Political Economy. Her teaching specialties are American Economic History and Public Finance.

Emelie Peine

Emelie Peine (Assistant Professor) received her BA degree from the Evergreen State College and MS and PhD degrees are from Cornell University. She teaches several IPE courses including The IPE of Food and Hunger. Her research focuses on the role of multinational agribusiness in the global food regime.

epeine@pugetsound.edu

Mike Veseth

Mike Veseth is the Robert G. Albertson Professor of IPE. He is an authority on economic globalization and teaches several IPE classes including The Beautiful Game (about globalization and soccer) and The Idea of Wine. Mike is the author of many books including Wine Wars: The Curse of the Blue Nun, the Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists (2011) and Globaloney 2.0: The Crash of 2008 and the Future of Globalization (2010). He writes about global wine for The Wine Economist (WineEconomist.com).

In 2010 Mike was named Washington Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Mike received the B.A. degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Puget Sound in 1972. His M.S. (1974) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees in Economics are from Purdue University.

veseth@pugetsound.edu  
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