List of Honors Faculty




Jeffrey Butler

Associate Professor

Economics and Business Management

School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts

I am a behavioral and experimental economist who studies culture and decision-making with a particular focus on inequality. 



Rowena Gray

Associate Professor

Economics and Business Management

School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts

Prof. Gray conducts research and teaches upper division classes in the economics and economic history of labor market change and inequality as well as urban problems including crime, policing, and housing markets.



Justin Hicks

Associate Teaching Professor

Economics and Business Management

School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts

Applied Microeconomist studying innovation, knowledge creation, and knowledge proliferation using patent data.



Jason Lee

Associate Teaching Professor

Economics and Business Management

School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts

Dr. Lee is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC Merced. He currently teaches a wide range of courses including Introduction to Economics, Statistical Inference, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Economics of Sports and Economics of Investments. Dr. Lee's fields of interest include economic history and economic growth.