{"id":21,"date":"2009-03-16T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:34:14","slug":"narsc-council-directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/background-history\/narsc-council-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NARSC Council 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting Members<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Kohlhase, President<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Economics
University of Houston
Email: jkohlhase@uh.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christa Court, Chair, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Food and Resource Economics Department
University of Florida
Email: ccourt@ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eli Knapp, Councilor-at-Large, 2024-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center for Open Geographical Science
San Diego State University
email: eknaap@sdsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Dobis, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USDA Economic Research Service
Rural Economy Branch
Email: Elizabeth.Dobis@usda.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlianne Patrick, Councilor-at-Large, 2025-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
Email: cpatrick@gsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina Miller, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2028<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Economist
Innovation Center at USDA Rural Development
Email: Cristina.Miller2@usda.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Whitacre, Councilor-at-Large, 2026-2028<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University
Email: brian.whitacre@okstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKenzie Boyce, Student Representative, 2024-2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: hw652@cornell.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Newbold, Canadian RSA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Geography and Earth Sciences
McMaster University
Email: newbold@mcmaster.ca<\/a>

Tessa Conroy, Mid-Continent RSA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applied and Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: tessa.conroy@wisc.edu<\/a>

Heather Stephens, Northeast RSA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of the Regional Research Institute
Email: heather.stephens@mail.wvu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda L. Weinstein, Southern RSA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Economics
University of Akron
Email: aweinstein@uakron.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaewon Lim, Western RSA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Public Policy & Leadership
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Email: jaewon.lim@unlv.edu<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ex-officio (Nonvoting) Members<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Sporing, NARSC Executive Director<\/strong>
Email: executivedirector@narsc.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Vi\u00f1uela, RSAI Executive Director<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Applied Economics Department
REGIOlab, University of Oviedo,  Spain
Email: avinuela@uniovi.es<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosella Nicolini, Editor-in-Chief, Papers in Regional Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona
Facultat d\u2019Economia i Empresa
Edifici B \u2013 Campus de la Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra \u2013 Barcelona, Spain
Email: rosella.nicolini@uab.cat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Nilsson, Editor, Regional Science Policy & Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Geography & Earth Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Email: inilsso1@uncc.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Reid, Editor, Regional Science Policy & Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Geography and Planning
The University of Toledo
Email: neil.reid@utoledo.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tessa Conroy, Editor, Papers in Regional Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applied and Agricultural Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: tessa.conroy@wisc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Delmelle, Editor, Papers in Regional Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of North-Carolina
Email: Eric.Delmelle@uncc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARSC Council 2026 Voting Members Janet Kohlhase, President Department of EconomicsUniversity of HoustonEmail: jkohlhase@uh.edu Christa Court, Chair, 2026 Food and Resource Economics DepartmentUniversity of FloridaEmail: ccourt@ufl.edu Eli Knapp, Councilor-at-Large, 2024-2026 Center for Open Geographical ScienceSan Diego State Universityemail: eknaap@sdsu.edu Elizabeth Dobis, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/7677"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narsc.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}