Alumni Notes
Peter J. Bonfante (BA ’00)
received his Juris Doctorate at Loyola Law School in May 2004. He is currently employed as an attorney at Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker Associates in Los Angeles.
Alumni Notes
Peter J. Bonfante (BA ’00)
received his Juris Doctorate at Loyola Law
School in May 2004. He is currently employed
as an attorney at Paul Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker Associates in Los Angeles.
Arnoldo Rosenberg Boresztein (PhD ’69)
is a professor of economics and finance, and
main researcher at Centrum (the graduate
business school), at Pontificia Universidad
Catolica del Peru, www.centrum.pucp.edu.pe.
Arnoldo was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Grant
to study at the University of Colorado at
Boulder from July 1965 to August 1968. His
advisor was John (Jack) Powelson. Arnoldo
also holds a BA (’65) and Economist title
(’65), both from UNMSM, Lima, Peru.
Jeffery H. Burton (BA ’74)
received his master of science degree in economic
history at the London School of
Economics in 1975, and his juris doctorate at
George Washington University in 1982. He is
currently employed as the general counsel of
operations at Norfolk Southern Corporation
in Virginia.
Shuichi Inada (MA ’84)
is currently the director of the Radio Policy
Division in the Telecommunications Bureau at
the Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications in Tokyo, Japan. He also
holds a bachelor’s (’77) and a master’s (’79)
degree in engineering from Kyushu University.
Kristin Klopfenstein (PhD ’99)
was promoted to associate professor with
tenure in the Department of Economics at
Texas Christian University in May 2005. Kristin
also conducts research in the economics of
education as a faculty research fellow at the
Texas Schools Project, housed at the University
of Texas at Dallas. Her son, Dillon, will be one
year old this November.
Denise E. Konan (PhD ’93)
is the interim chancellor at the University of
Hawai’i at Mãnoa. Prior to this appointment,
Denise was a professor and chair of the UH
Mãnoa Department of Economics and previously
served for three years as interim assistant
vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Jose-Antonio Lopez (MA ’96)
is currently employed in the strategy department
with Electricite de France in Paris.
Normally based in London (with EDF Energy,
the United Kingdon arm of EDF), he is on an
extended expatriation assignment in Paris due
to an internal promotion as the director of the
department.
Geetha Rajaram (PhD ’04)
has a new position in southern California at
Whittier College. Whittier College is a fouryear
independent residential liberal arts college
distinguished by its small size, nationally
recognized liberal arts curriculum, and innovative
interdisciplinary programs.
W. Douglass Shaw (PhD ’85)
is a professor at Texas A&M University, in
College Station, Texas. He teaches one undergraduate
and one graduate course per year in
environmental and resource economics. His
current research focuses on connections
between risk and uncertainty and the environment
and he is currently the principal investigator
on grants from the U.S. EPA and the
National Science Foundation. He and his wife,
Lynn Stuart (PhD ’85), have three girls (a 14-
year-old and 11-year-old twins).
Sara E. Gorton Slattery (BA ’03)
was the winner of the women’s elite race of
the Bolder Boulder on May 26, 2006. Sheclinched the title in a dramatic victory, winning
by one second. Slattery is a two-time
NCAA track champion.
Aaron Strong (PhD ’04)
has taken a position at Arizona State
University. He is a post-doctoral fellow working
with V. Kerry Smith. His research projects
include: resilency of the economy in the face
of supply shocks due to terrorist attacks and
natural disasters; the role of climate change,
urban heat island effect, and air pollution on
housing choice; and invasive species and their
effects on public lands and rivers.
Remembrance
John J Korbel (PhD ’74)
died on June 10, 2004, of complications from
pneumonia. He was born Dec. 13, 1918, in
Havanna, Cuba. Although John was American,
he was raised primarily in Europe. He graduated
from Harvard in 1939 and later earned
an MBA and a PhD, also from Harvard.
During World War II he served in the Navy.
He taught economics at the University of
Wisconsin and the University of New
Hampshire in the Whittemore School of
Business, from which he retired. His wife,
Isobel Albrecht, died in 1998. He is survived
by four children and two grandchildren.
In the past year, the department has suffered
two tragedies. Last summer, Valeriy
Gauzshtein (MA ’97, PhD ’03) was killed in an
automobile accident in Kazakhstan. Valerie
was a public economist whose dissertation
introduced several innovations into the empirical
analysis of local government behavior. He
was a professional of great promise, as well as a
warm and thoughtful individual. He was a professor
of economics at KIMEP. He is survived
by his wife and two sons.
James George Lynch (MA ’90, PhD ’98),
of Arlington, Virginia, died of cancer this past
July. Jim was a labor economist whose dissertation
uncovered several novel effects of prizes
in tournaments. His work has been published
in the Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization and the Journal of Sports Economics.
Jim had embarked on a career in public service
at the U.S. Department of Labor. Moreover,
he was a good friend and a cheerful colleague.
He is survived by his wife, Christine McDaniel (PhD ’99), and one son.