Robert Gmeiner, Ph.D.

About Me

I am a visiting assistant professor of economics at Kennesaw State University, near Atlanta, Georgia and an externally-affiliated scholar at The Sunwater Institute, a think near Washington, D.C.  My research focuses on public choice, economic regulation, entrepreneurship and knowledge creation, and the role of property rights in economic prosperity and international trade.  I strive to link my research into the "big picture" and answer broad, interesting, and important questions for the good of society.  As for teaching, I thoroughly enjoy it and it is one of the pleasures of my current position at Kennesaw State.

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I earned my Ph.D. at Florida State University, studying under Dr. Randall Holcombe.  Prior to graduate school, I earned an undergraduate degree in economics and Russian at Wake Forest University and served as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Russian Far East. From 2018 to 2019, I worked as a scholar doing economic research on property rights at The Sunwater Institute, where I remain affiliated as an external scholar.

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When I am not doing research or teaching, you can find me with my delightful family.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, 2018

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Dissertation Chairman: Dr. Randall Holcombe

Dissertation Title: Domestic Effects of Federal Regulation of Oil and Gas Industries

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Master of Science, Economics, 2016

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

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Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Russian, 2012 

​Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

summa cum laude

Employment

Kennesaw State University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2019 - current

Kennesaw, Georgia

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The Sunwater Institute

Scholar (external), 2018 - current

North Bethesda, Maryland

Volunteer Service

Missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2009-2011

Russian Far East (Artyom, Khabarovsk, Nakhodka, Ussuriysk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships