NARSC Council 2026
Voting Members
Janet Kohlhase, President
Department of Economics
University of Houston
Email: jkohlhase@uh.edu
Christa Court, Chair, 2026
Department of Food and Resource Economics
University of Florida
Email: ccourt@ufl.edu
Eli Knaap, Councilor-at-Large, 2024-2026
Urban Planning and Public Policy
University of California, Irvine
Email: eknaap@uci.edu
Elizabeth Dobis, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2027
Rural Economy Branch
USDA Economic Research Service
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
Cristina Miller, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2028
Innovation Center
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
Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University
Email: mckenzie.boyce@okstate.edu
Bruce Newbold, Canadian RSA
School of Geography and Earth Sciences
McMaster University
Email: newbold@mcmaster.ca
Tessa Conroy, Mid-Continent RSA
Agricultural & Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: tessa.conroy@wisc.edu
Heather Stephens, Southern RSA
Regional Research Institute
West Virginia University
Email: heather.stephens@mail.wvu.edu
Andrew Van Leuven, North East RSA
Department of Community Development & Applied Economics
University of Vermont
Email: Andrew.Vanleuven@uvm.edu
Jaewon Lim, Western RSA
School of Public Policy & Leadership
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Email: jaewon.lim@unlv.edu
Ex-officio (Nonvoting) Members
Sarah Low, Immediate Past Chair
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Email: salow2@illinois.edu
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
Elizabeth Mack, Editor, Papers in Regional Science
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
Michigan State University
Email: emack@msu.edu
Andrea Caragliu, Editor-in-Chief, Regional Science Policy & Practice
Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Email: andrea.caragliu@polimi.it
Neil Reid, Editor, Regional Science Policy & Practice
Department of Geography and Planning
University of Toledo
Email: neil.reid@utoledo.edu