Media Contact:
Catherine Behan
Communications Manager
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Office: 703-993-4960
Email: cbehan1@gmu.edu
Karen Hallows
Capitol Hill Campus Faculty
Biography
Dr. Karen Hallows is an assistant professor of finance in the School of Management at George Mason University. She has also taught at American University, Averett College, George Washington University, the Florida Institute of Technology, the University of Missouri, and the University of Nebraska.
Her other experience includes being a policy analyst for the National Commission on Childhood Disability (1995), a legislative assistant/staff economist for Congressman Jim Slattery (1993-1994), President of the Missouri Council on Economic Education (1990-1993), a non-profit educational organization, and Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Missouri (1987-1993).
Professor Hallows is a content provider for PHLIP in finance and international finance. She is also the academic coordinator of the Business Journalism Program, which is held for business reporters and editors at the University of Kansas each summer. She has written and published several articles and book chapters dealing with economic eduction and the financing of education.
Professor Hallows earned her PhD in economics and finance from the University of Nebraska and her MA in economics from Purdue University.
