Visiting Scholars
John P. Blair, Wright State University
John P. Blair received his Ph.D. from West Virginia University. Currently he is Professor of Economics at Wright State University. Prior to joining Wright State, Blair served as Policy Analyst in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and was in the Urban Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has received the Roapke Award for research in economic development, The Distinguish Alumni Award from West Virginia University, Regional Research Institute, and the Bloomberg Award for excellence in futures studies.
Dr. Blair's primary area of research is urban and regional development. He is particularly concerned about issues that affect low and moderate income families. He has published articles in such journal as Urban Affairs Review, Public Choice, and The Journal of the American Planning Association. "Growth Management and Retail Activity in the United States" a contribution to the urban sprawl debate, is slated for publication in the Journal of Shopping Center Research. His numerous books and monographs include Local Economic Development (Sage, 1995) and Decentralizing Federal Employment: Feasibility and Impact on Ohio Cities (Buckeye Institute, 2003). -- scholar's homepage
John Bryson, University of Birmingham
John Bryson, a professor of enterprise and economic geography at the University of Birmingham, focuses his research on understanding and explaining the complex ways in which production is organized through space, in place and via a variety of forms of enterprise. One of his recent projects seeks to identify how industrial design services are produced, organized and consumed in Norway. -- scholar's homepage
Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland
Richard Le Heron is a professor of economic geography at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research centers on supply chain realignment in the dairy and meat commodity chains, repositioning New Zealand enterprises in regional value chains, and comparative analysis of the articulation of New Zealand horticulture into the global fresh and vegetable complex. -- scholar's homepage
J.R. Stanfield, Colorado State University
James Ronald Stanfield is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, USA. He is the author of John Kenneth Galbraith: Economics, Power, and Culture, Essays in the Development of Radical Institutionalism, The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi: Lives and Livelihood, Economic Thought and Social Change and The Economic Surplus and Neo-Marxism, as well as over one hundred articles, reviews, and book chapters.
He is past president of the Association for Evolutionary Economics, the Association for Social Economics, and the Association for Institutional Thought. He has been received by Colorado State University's Oliver Pennock award for Outstanding Service and the John Stern Distinguished Professor award. He was awarded the 2002 Thomas Devine Award by the Association for Social Economics and the 2006 Veblen-Commons Award by the Association for Evolutionary Economics. -- scholar's homepage
Michael Taylor, University of Birmingham
Michael Taylor is a professor of human geography at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He also has held academic appointments in New Zealand and Australia. His ongoing research focuses on the theme of business enterprise and local development with the goal to better understand the constraints on local growth imposed by process of global change. -- scholar's homepage
Resident Scholars
Michael C. Carroll, Ph.D.
Michael C. Carroll, Ph.D. is the Director of BGSU’s Center for Regional Development and Associate Professor of Economics. Dr. Carroll’s business and economics career dates from 1982 and includes service as an assistant professor of economics, corporate controller, operations manager, and a corporate presidency. His research interests focus on regional economic development strategies and social economics.
Dr. Carroll is Editor-in-Chief of Regional Science Policy & Practice and Associate Editor of Economic Development Quarterly. His writings have appeared in a variety of academic journals including, the Journal of Economic Issues, Annals of Regional Science, Review of Social Economy, and the Industrial Geographer. Dr. Carroll’s first book, A Future of Capitalism: The Economic Vision of Robert Heilbroner was published by Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press in 1998. His most recent book Local Economic Development is co-authored with CRD Visiting Scholar, John P. Blair. The book is published by Sage Publications.
Dr. Carroll has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has held economics faculty positions at Colorado State University, Muskingum College, West Virginia State University, and currently, Bowling Green State University. Dr. Carroll earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wright State University and his Ph.D. from Colorado State University.
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Mark C. Zeller, Ph.D.
Mark C. Zeller, Ph.D. is a resident scholar of BGSU’s Center for Regional Development, advancing network, institutional, and complexity theories addressing regional economic and geographical factors. Dr. Zeller’s research interests includes the use of social network structures, communication behavior, information flow, and media channel uses applied to innovations and diffusion of innovation, with a focus on chief executive officers, entrepreneurs, civic and academic leaders.
Dr. Zeller has 32 years of experience in international transportation parts manufacturing industry, including 18 years as a chief executive officer prior to returning to graduate school. His management experiences include establishing progressive, collaborative team environments and working with strong labor environments in new and old organization structures globally. He developed and implemented curriculum and management programs, addressing strategic and organization issues. Dr. Zeller has taught at the undergraduate level.
He has published in the Ohio Journal of Science, and has authored and co-authored papers presented at conferences of the North American Regional Science Council, the International Geographical Union, the Ohio Association of Economists and Political Scientists, East Lakes Division of Association of American Geographers, Central States Communication Association, and the National Communication Association.
Dr. Zeller received a B.A. in economics from Denison University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication studies from Bowling Green State University.
Xinyue Ye, Ph.D.
Xinyue Ye is an Economic Geographer who joined the Center for Regional Development (CRD) and the School of Earth, Environment, and Society (SEES) in a dual appointment in August of 2009. He will conduct research for CRD in the area of time-space interface.
In 2008, Xinyue received the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (DDRI) from the National Science Foundation for his dissertation proposal Comparative Space-Time Dynamics. His research interests focus on space-time analysis, regional science, and economic development.
Xinyue has also served as a reviewer for nine international journals, ranging from economic geography to land use modeling. His publications are in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, International Regional Science Review, Regional Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG: Journal of Economic and Social Geography), among others. He has been a highly collaborative researcher in a dozen cooperative projects sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Commerce, US National Geographic Society, Wisconsin and Michigan State/Local agencies, China National Science Foundation and Zhejiang Province, and local agencies in China.
Xinyue has been an urban planner, economic consultant, software programmer, and GIS specialist. He earned a B.S. in Urban Planning from Zhejiang University, M.A. in economic geography from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and M.S. in GIS from Eastern Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. from the joint program between San Diego State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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BGSU Research Fellows
- Joseph Frizado, Geology
- Peter Vanderhart, Economics
- Bruce W. Smith, Geography, Emeritus