Dennis R. Appleyard

Dennis R. Appleyard is James B. Duke Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. He grew up in Michigan, attended Ohio Wesleyan University for his undergraduate work (A.B. in Economics, 1961), and did his economics graduate work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (A.M., 1963; Ph.D., 1966). He joined the economics faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966, and he taught at Chapel Hill from 1966-1989. He received the university-wide Tanner Award for "Excellence in Inspirational Teaching of Undergraduate Students" in 1983, and he held various administrative positions in the Department of Economics, including being Chairman of Graduate Studies, Director of the Honors Program, and Associate Chair. He undertook his current position at Davidson College in 1990. While at Davidson, he has been Chair of the college's International Education Committee for several years, and he directed Davidson's Semester-in-India Program in Fall 1996 and Semester-in-India and Nepal Program in Fall 2000.

Professor Appleyard has taught courses for undergraduates in economic principles, intermediate microeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics (also at the M.B.A. level), and money and banking. He has taught international economics and economic development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests lie in international trade theory and policy and in the Indian economy. Published work, much of it done in conjunction with Professor Field, has appeared in the American Economic Review, History of Political Economy, Indian Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education, and Journal of International Economics, among others. He has also done consulting work for the World Bank, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (in Islamabad, Pakistan). Professor Appleyard derives genuine pleasure from working with students, and he thinks that teaching keeps him young in spirit since his students are always the same age! He is also firmly convinced that having the opportunity to teach international economics in this age of growing globalization is a rare privilege and an enviable challenge.

Alfred J. Field

Alfred J. Field is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He grew up in Iowa and did his undergraduate and graduate work at Iowa State University. He joined the economics faculty at Carolina in 1967, and has held a number of administrative positions in the Department of Economics including two terms as Director of Graduate Studies and Director of the Senior Honors Program. He currently is serving as Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics. Field also is a member of the Board of Directors of the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Latin American Studies and the joint UNC-Duke Program in Latin American Studies. He recently received the Department JaeYeong Song and Chanuk Park Award for Excellence in Graduate teaching.

Prof. Field teaches courses in international economics and economic development at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and has served on a large number of Ph.D. dissertation committees in both areas over the years. He also has directed many Senior Honors in the same areas. His research interests lie in the area of trade policy and adjustment and development policy, particularly as it relates to trade and agriculture. This interest has taken on a micro focus in recent years and several of his students are currently working on issues which focus on rural household decision making in developing countries. Another area of research interest involves trade and structural adjustment issues in the United States. He has examined the experience of unemployed textile and apparel workers in North Carolina in the 1985-95 period, and at present is analyzing the evolutionary employment of quotas on selected US textile and apparel imports over the past 20-25 years. He also remains interested in theoretical trade and economic integration issues as well as the use of econometric and computable general equilibrium models in analyzing the effects of trade policy, particularly in developing countries.

Prof. Field has done consulting work with a number of agencies including the World Bank, and the US Department of the Treasury. In addition, he worked two years in Peru with a USAID project, a year in Geneva, Switzerland with the International Labour Office, and most recently spent a month consulting in Chengdu, PRC, under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. Field feels that the combination of teaching, research and consulting in the area of international and development issues during the recent period of globalization has been a particularly rich and rewarding experience.