Adjunct Faculty
Diana L. Moss
PhD Economics, Colorado School of Mines
President, American Antitrust Institute
Diana Moss became the President of the American Antitrust Institute in January 2015. An economist, Dr. Moss has developed and expanded AAI’s advocacy channels and strategies, and strengthened communications with enforcers, Congress, other advocacy groups, and the media. Her work spans both antitrust and regulation, with industry expertise in digital technology, electricity, petroleum, food and agriculture, airlines, telecommunications, and healthcare. Before joining AAI in 2001, Dr. Moss was at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where she coordinated the agency’s competition analysis for electricity mergers. From 1989 to 1994, she consulted in private practice in the areas of regulation and antitrust. Dr. Moss has spoken widely on various topics involving competition policy and enforcement, testified before Congress, appeared before state and federal regulatory commissions, and made numerous radio and television appearances. She has published articles in a number of economic and legal academic journals, including: American Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Organization, the Energy Law Journal, and the Antitrust Bulletin. She is editor of Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust (2005). Dr. Moss is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a MA degree from the University of Denver and a PhD from the Colorado School of Mines. Email: dmoss@antitrustinstitute.org
Affiliated Faculty
Sara Avila Forcada
Senior Instructor
Department of Economics & Continuing Education
Sara Avila is an economics instructor with almost two decades of experience teaching in public and private universities. Her research interests are in the fields of environmental and urban economics. She has worked on topics related to air quality, climate change, urban transportation, and biodiversity conservation. She is always learning about better methods to communicate and teach. She is passionate about building understanding in a diverse environment, and she uses online teaching as a tool to achieve this goal.
Office: ECON 06A • 303.492.8737
Email: sara.avila@colorado.edu
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/avila-sara/
Alpna Bhatia
Senior Instructor
Department of Economics & Continuing Education
Dr. Alpna Bhatia (Dr. B) has a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her areas of academic research and interest include (but are not limited to) gender issues, sustainable development, and teaching methodology. She has been learning and teaching for around twenty years. Outside of class, Dr. B is the chief experimenter in her kitchen, master list maker, and occasional killer of plants.
Office: ECON 06A • 303.492.8737
Email: Alpna.bhatia@colorado.edu
Matthew G. Burgess
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program & Department of Economics
Matthew Burgess is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, with a courtesy appointment in Economics. His research focuses on natural resource management, endangered species conservation, and issues in global sustainability. He uses a combination of mathematical and computer modeling, data synthesis, and collaboration with stakeholders, in order to make conceptual advances and link them to practice.
Email: Matthew.G.Burgess@Colorado.edu
Website: https://cires.colorado.edu/council-fellows/matthew-burgess
Namsuk Choi
Lecturer
Namsuk Choi, PhD, University of Colorado, 2008, is a lecturer at University of Colorado Boulder and an associate professor of international trade at the Jeonbuk National University in Korea. He has researched on Korean trade policies with the U.S. His fields of research interest are international trade & investment and economic development. His current research focuses on the US military installations and its influence on Christianity and demographics in Korea.
Office: ECON 14C
Email: Namsuk.Choi@colorado.edu
Karen Gebhardt
Senior Instructor
Professor of Economics Pedagogical Practice
Director of the Online Economics Program
Director for Undergraduate Online Learning
Karen Gebhardt's research focuses on using learning analytics to improve student learning outcomes in economics education with an emphasis on improving grades and completion rates in online courses. She is an early adopter of technology in the classroom and advocates strongly for it because she sees the difference it makes in student engagement and learning. In her free time, Karen enjoys rock climbing and traveling in the Colorado Rockies and beyond.
Office: ECON 203 • 303.492.2493
Email: Karen.Gebhardt@Colorado.edu
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/karengebhardt/
Kremena Platikanova-Gross
Visiting Assistant Professor
Kremena Platikanova-Gross has a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado since 2006. Her research interests are in the fields of Econometrics and International Trade. She teaches undergraduate classes in Econometrics.
Office: ECON 14C
Email: Kremena.Platikanova@Colorado.edu
Shawn Swanson
Instructor
Shawn Swanson received his PhD in Economics from The University of Colorado Boulder in December 2020. His fields of study include labor and development economics. His current research examines the impacts of marijuana liberalization in the US on outcomes in Mexico, such as violence and migration.
Office: Econ 14B
Email: shawn.swanson@colorado.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/shawnswanson