Danish KhanAssociate Professor of Economics

Biography

Dr. Danish Khan is Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BS in Economics and International Studies from the University of Utah. His research focuses on economic development and international political economy. His work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, including Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Economic Issues, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Review of Radical Political Economics, Studies in Political Economy and Labor History. He is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon High Impact Emerging Scholar Fellowship, and his research has earned several awards, including the John Kenneth Galbraith Best Dissertation Award and the Solomon K. Barkin Award from UMass Amherst, and the Stephen A. Resnick Best Essay Award. Previously, he taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University and served in advisory and consulting roles with the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. His commentary has also appeared in outlets such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, the BBC, and NPR.