Skaggs Named Interim Economics Chair

Neil Skaggs has been named interim chair of Illinois State University's Department of Economics.  Skaggs will step into that role July 1 to replace James Payne who has been named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Skaggs received his Ph.D in economics from Duke University and teaches courses on money and banking, the history of economic thought, intermediate macroeconomics, and the principles of economics.  Skaggs' research specialty is the history of monetary economics and his work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Economics, History of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal and Public Choice.