NARSC Council 2026
Voting Members
Janet Kohlhase, President
Department of Economics
University of Houston
Email: jkohlhase@uh.edu
Christa Court, Chair, 2024-2026
Food and Resource Economics Department
University of Florida
Email: ccourt@ufl.edu
Eli Knapp, Councilor-at-Large, 2024-2026
Center for Open Geographical Science
San Diego State University
email: eknaap@sdsu.edu
Elizabeth Dobis, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2027
USDA Economic Research Service
Rural Economy Branch
Email: Elizabeth.Dobis@usda.gov
Carlianne Patrick, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2027
Department of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
Email: cpatrick@gsu.edu
Christina Miller, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2028
Research Economist
Innovation Center at USDA Rural Development
Email: Cristina.Miller2@usda.gov
Brian Whitacre, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2028
Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University
Email: brian.whitacre@okstate.edu
McKenzie Boyce, Student Representative, 2024-2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: hw652@cornell.edu
Bruce Newbold, Canadian RSA
School of Geography and Earth Sciences
McMaster University
Email: newbold@mcmaster.ca
Tessa Conroy, Mid-Continent RSA
Applied and Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: tessa.conroy@wisc.edu
Heather Stephens, Northeast RSA
Director of the Regional Research Institute
Email: heather.stephens@mail.wvu.edu
Amanda L. Weinstein, Southern RSA
Department of Economics
University of Akron
Email: aweinstein@uakron.edu
Jaewon Lim, Western RSA
School of Public Policy & Leadership
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Email: jaewon.lim@unlv.edu
Ex-officio (Nonvoting) Members
John Sporing, NARSC Executive Director
Email: executivedirector@narsc.org
Ana Viñuela, RSAI Executive Director
Associate Professor, Applied Economics Department
REGIOlab, University of Oviedo, Spain
Email: avinuela@uniovi.es
Rosella Nicolini, Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Facultat d’Economia i Empresa
Edifici B – Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra – Barcelona, Spain
Email: rosella.nicolini@uab.cat
Isabelle Nilsson, Editor, Regional Science Policy & Practice
Department of Geography & Earth Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Email: inilsso1@uncc.edu
Neil Reid, Editor, Regional Science Policy & Practice
Department of Geography and Planning
The University of Toledo
Email: neil.reid@utoledo.edu
Tessa Conroy, Editor, Papers in Regional Science
Applied and Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: tessa.conroy@wisc.edu
Eric Delmelle, Editor, Papers in Regional Science
University of North-Carolina
Email: Eric.Delmelle@uncc.edu