TRG Faculty

Faculty

Brief Bios

Ken Casavant

Ken Casavant, Professor

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• casavantk@wsu.edu

Ken is a Professor in the School of Economic Sciences and a nationally renowned transportation economist, after spending 35 years at Washington State University. He has received numerous teaching, research and service awards throughout his tenure at Washington State University, including recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute 2006, the "Washington State University Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award" 2004 and being named “Distinguished Scholar” by the Western Agricultural Economics Association in 2003. Ken also also serves as the Faculty Athletic Representative to the President for Washington State University.

Eric Jessup

Eric Jessup, Assistant Professor

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• eric_jessup@wsu.edu

Eric is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University. He received his bachelor and masters degrees in Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky and Ph.D. at Washington State University. Prior to joining the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, he spent four years with the International Risk Management Group at American Express, Inc. Eric's current research focus includes transportation economics, network modeling, and freight transportation logistics. His research is frequently published in the Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum and the Western Planner.

Vicki McCracken

Vicki McCracken, Professor

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• mccracke@wsu.edu

Vicki is a Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University.  She received her bachelor degree in economics and home economics at Indiana University, masters and PhD degrees in agricultural economics at Purdue University. Vicki specializes in General Marketing and Price Analysis, Fruit Marketing, Consumption Analysis, and Applied Economics.

Jia Yan

Jia Yan, Assistant Professor

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• jiay@wsu.edu

Jia Yan is an assistant professor of Economics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of California at Irvine. Before joining Washington State University in 2007, he taught in Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Yan's research covers Transportation Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics.  He has published his papers in such journal as Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Econometrica, Journal of Urban Economics, and Transportation Research Record. His Ph.D. dissertation won the dissertation award of the Transport and Public Utility Group of the American Economic Association in 2003. He also won the research excellence award of the Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006.