Welcome New Faculty

The Department of Economics welcomes three new colleagues this fall! Christian Ellul, Pablo Garofalo, and Mario Rafael Silva bring fresh expertise in labor economics, public policy, and macroeconomics to our faculty. Learn more about each of them below.

Christian Ellul

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics

Christian Ellul is a macroeconomist with broad interests in labor economics and public policy. His research focuses on how occupational dynamics and the rise of the gig economy shape the provision of unemployment insurance. Areas of research speci…
Pablo Garofalo

Visiting Lecturer, Economics

Pablo Garofalo has served as a university professor in both the U.S. and Argentina. His teaching interests center on macroeconomics, international economics, and monetary economics, while his research focuses on public economics, macroeconomics, and …
Mario Rafael Silva

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics

Mario Rafael Silva is an economist specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied under Guillaume Rocheteau. His research focuses on liquidity, market…

Welcome New Faculty

Christian Ellul

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics

Pablo Garofalo

Visiting Lecturer, Economics

Mario Rafael Silva

Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics

Frank Georges

Teaching Professor of Economics

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Nishith Prakash

Dean’s Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Madhavi Venkatesan

Teaching Professor of Economics

Visiting Assistant Professor

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