Economics Dept. |
Residential |
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2801 E. Marson Dr.
Apt. 306
Sioux Falls, SD 57103
Phone: (605) 371-5870
E-mail:
nesiba@mac.com
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Reynold F. Nesiba grew up in St. Paul, Nebraska. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of Denver in 1989, and his M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1995) in economics from the University of Notre Dame. Since 1995, Dr. Nesiba has been teaching economics at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where he currently serves as Associate Professor of Economics. Dr. Nesiba authored and/or co-authored work appears in Social Problems, the Journal of Economic Issues, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Cityscape, the Encyclopedia of Political Economy, and other edited volumes. Reynold is also the co-author (with Maureen Burton and Ray Lombra) of the textbook An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions published by South-Western/Thomson Learning (2003). A new edition of that book, with Bruce Brown as a co-author will be published by M.E. Sharpe in 2009.
During the 2002-2005 period, Reynold performed mortgage-lending research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) related to inequality in the home mortgage lending. His current research interests include housing policy, mortgage lending, and making sense of economic globalization. Currently Dr. Nesiba is under contract with M.E. Sharpe to produce a Principles of Economics. It is authored by Howard Sherman, E. K. Hunt, Reynold Nesiba, Phil O'Hara, and barbara Wiens-Tuers The text is titled Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Radical Views, 7th edition, and is expected in print in 2008.
From January-July 2003, Dr. Nesiba visited Sydney, lived in Perth, and traveled throughout Western Australia. While in Perth, Reynold served as a Senior Visiting Scholar for Curtin University’s Global Political Economy Research Unit (GPERU) and taught macroeconomic tutorials in the Curtin Business School (CBS). At Augustana College, Reynold regularly teaches Principles of Economics I (micro); Principles of Economics II (macro); Intermediate Microeconomics; Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions, and occasionally offers a co-led course on Globalization and its Economic, Ecological, and Ethical Critics. In addition to teaching at Augustana College, Dr. Nesiba has led or co-led short-term study abroad courses to Nicaragua (March 2004, 2006, 2007) and to Australia (January 2005, 2007). He plans to take students to Australia during January-term of 2009 as part of a special Augustana in Australia program.
