Economic Rockstar

Dr. Alice Kassens is an economics professor at Roanoke College and has already built a notable reputation in her profession.  Alice is the current recipient of Roanoke’s John S. Shannon Professorship in Economics, which honors and supports a faculty member who is an outstanding teacher and accomplished scholar and who is thoroughly committed to enriching the lives of Roanoke students. Dr Kassens’ work at Roanoke includes creating and maintaining an economics program blog and a biannual newsletter, Roanomics. She also serves as the faculty advisor for the College's Economics Club.  Alice's areas of expertise include labor and health economics. She has won several awards and fellowships, and her work has been published in numerous academic journals. Alice is one of three economists who won Cengage Learning’s 2013 Economist Educators Best in Class Award for her method of teaching using Twitter. Dr Kassens is president of the Virginia Association of Economics, has recently been appointed by Governor McAuliffe to