Hoover, Gary A.

Gary Hoover is the executive director of the Murphy Institute and a professor in the Department of Economics. Since 2012, Hoover has served as co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession. He is also the current and founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, past vice-president of the Southern Economic Association, and a fellow of CESifo Group Munich. Hoover was previously appointed a President's Associates Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and chair of the university’s Department of Economics. Prior to that, Hoover served as the William White McDonald Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Alabama and assistant dean for faculty and graduate student development in the Culverhouse College of Business Administration.