Welcome to the Department of Economics
The Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut is the home to 33 faculty members, nearly 1100 undergraduate majors and approximately 60 graduate students. We are proud of the success of our students after graduation. Many of our undergraduate majors have gone on to careers in insurance, banking and government both at the state and federal level. Our Masters graduates have continued in the Ph.D. program or distinguished themselves in business and government positions. Numerous colleges and universities in the region and around the world are staffed with faculty members who received their doctorate degree from the Department.
The department prides itself on the diversity of interests and fields of its faculty. All of the faculty are actively involved in research and publication activities, and are active in international, national, and regional professional societies. Faculty members have also served in positions with the national and state governments, and international institutions.
The department also welcomes private support, which helps us reward top scholarly effort and to competitively recruit students and faculty. For more information on donating to departmental efforts, click the "Giving" link above.
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Department News
- New York Fed Official and UConn Aluma Visits StamfordMs. Heather Daly, Head of Economic Education at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and UConn alumna, visited the Stamford campus on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, to meet Economics students. Heather’s career includes 30 years of experience in for-profit, nonprofit, and public service organizations. Prior to joining the New York Fed in 2015, Heather […]
- Professor Oskar Harmon Recognized Among Top Citation Leaders in Economics EducationProfessor Oskar Harmon has been recognized as among the top five most active and cited researchers publishing in the field of economics education. The ranking appears in the article “Identifying the Rising Stars of Economics Education,” published in The American Economist (2026) by Wayne Geerling, G. Dirk Mateer, and Jadrian Wooten. The citation-based analysis examined […]
- Professor Delia Furtado Awarded Russell Sage Foundation GrantAlong with collaborators at Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, UC Merced, and Georgetown University, Professor Delia Furtado has been awarded a research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. The project, “Immigrant Labor, Staffing Shortages, and Job Quality in the Long-Term Care Sector,” examines how the availability of immigrant labor influences staffing shortages and working conditions in nursing homes—an issue of growing […]


