Professor, University of Illinois Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, August 2005-present --Research concentration in political economy of agricultural policy, applied welfare economics, and the economics of technological change Associate Professor, University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, August 1996-August 2005 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Department of Agricultural Economics, 1989-1996 Faculty member (part-time), Department of Economics, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN, 1988-1989 --designed and taught two microeconomics principals courses, two macroeconomics principals courses