
Robert Gmeiner, Ph.D.
About Me
First and foremost, I am a follower of Jesus Christ, specifically a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From there, I am a devoted family man. After that, I am an economics professor at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As a professor, I am first a teacher, and then a researcher. The success of my students is the measure of my own success as an academic.
I love research, and you can read it here. My research philosophy breaks down into a few parts:
1) Put first things first. The discovery of truth - including scientific truth - is pleasing to God, but He expects discipleship before scholarship.
2) Link it to the big picture, and don't focus on small questions.
3) Find solutions for problems, not problems for solutions. Don't stop because someone doesn't like it, but never be confrontational.
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, served as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Russian Far East.

Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, 2018
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Dissertation chairman: Dr. Randall Holcome
Master of Science, Economics, 2016
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Bachelor of Arts, Economics and Russian, 2012
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
summa cum laude
Academic Employment
Methodist University
Assistant Professor of Financial Economics, 2021 - current
Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw State University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2019 - 2021
Kennesaw, Georgia
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)
Awards and Societies
Phi Beta Kappa
Delta of North Carolina at Wake Forest University, 2012
Omicron Delta Kappa
Florida State University, 2018
The Philadelphia Society
Member since 2019
Charles E. Rockwood Award for Most Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Florida State University Department of Economics, 2016