Geoff Clarke

Lecturer in Economics

Departments/Programs

Economics
International Business School

Degrees

Rutgers University, Ph.D.
City University of New York, M.A.
University of Chicago, A.B.

Expertise

Economic history, applied microeconomics, experimental economics

Profile

Geoff Clarke arrived at Brandeis in the Fall of 2019 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he studied economic history in one of the top-5 programs in the country. He teaches A Survey of Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and U.S. Economic History.

Clarke researches banks owned and operated by African-Americans from 1890 to the present day. He has constructed two new data sets. The first contains all African-American banks before 1940, used to measure the effects of African-American banks on the African-American community. The second contains in-depth information on the African-American banks of Virginia from 1915 to 1928 to quantify the three areas of discrimination these banks faced in the wider market.

Courses Taught

ECON	2a	A Survey of Economics
ECON	10a	Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON	55a	American Economic History
ECON	80a	Microeconomic Theory

Awards and Honors

HistoryMakers Academic Fellowship (2019 - 2020)

Scholarship

Clarke, Geoff. "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal." Rev. of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, by Shennette Garrett-Scott. Journal of Economic History vol. 79 12/1/2019: 1198-1200.

Clarke, Geoffrey and Purvi Sevak. "The Disappearing Gay Income Penalty." Economic Letters 121. 3 (2013): 542-545.