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Diana Fuguitt, Professor of Economics fuguitdl@eckerd.edu. Professor Fuguitt is interested primarily in international trade and foreign exchange, environmental economics and economic development in African, Asian and Latin American countries. Her research interests include coastal habitat valuation, cost-benefit analysis and economics education. She is a co-director of the interdisciplinary environmental studies program at Eckerd.

Peter Hammerschmidt, Professor of Economics hammerpk@eckerd.edu. Professor Hammerschmidt is primarily interested in leadership development and human and social economics. He is a Senior Trainer and Research Associate on the faculty of the Management Development Institute, bringing leadership training programs to executives. He also teaches Managerial Economics and Money and Banking.

Linda Lucas, Professor of Economics lucasle@eckerd.edu. She teaches industrial organization, international labor markets and marine resource policy.  Her current research interests include the gendered implications of globablization and rationalizing the US commercial fishing fleet.  She has been a Fulbright Professor of Economics in Mexico, a Visiting
Professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok, an East-West Center Fellow.  She has published several papers and book chapters in her fields and is currently serving as Editor of the Newsletter of the International Association for Feminist Economics.  She also serves on a number of national and regional commissions and agencies related to marine policy.

Tom Oberhofer, Professor of Economics oberhot@eckerd.edu. He is interested in macroeconomics and history of economic thought. In macroeconomics, students develop the quantitative research skills using SPSS to test the economic theories they are studying, getting an introduction to econometrics as part of the course. History of Economic Thought is based on a role playing envrionment, where students assume the role of a major thinker in economic thought for the entire semester.