Ryan Safner

Experience

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  University of Connecticut

  Aug 2008 - May 2011

  Tour Leader

  Conducting information presentations and leading guided tours for prospective students and their families, answering visitor inquiries, maintaining workplace

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  George Mason University

  May 2011 - Jun 2015

  ECON 403 - Austrian Economics (Summer 2015)ECON 385 - International Economic Policy (Spring 2014)ECON 385 - International Economic Policy (Fall 2013)ECON 385 - International Economic Policy (Summer 2013)

  • Graduate Lecturer

    Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

  • Ph.D Student

    May 2011 - May 2015
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  Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Sciences

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2012

  High School Economics Workshops Instructor

  Planning the curriculum and teaching 2 week-long summer economics workshops for high school students.

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  Wake Forest University

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
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  Hood College

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2023

  • Taught 7 course sections per year (21 credit hours/week) of 13 different courses — regularly taught Microeconomic Analysis, Econometrics (using R and Stata) and rotated between electives such as International Trade, International Political Economy, Economics of Development, Game Theory, Statistics for Business and Economics Majors, Economics of the Law, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, History of Economic Thought• Proposed, managed, and developed a new course: Economics of the Law• Developed publicly available open-source course materials & websites using R, markdown, and GitHub• Managed a team of teaching assistants and tutors• Managed and supervised 8 Departmental Honors projects as Committee Chair, served as Committee member for 1 DBA doctoral dissertation, Committee member for 2 undergraduate honors projects; leading students through the process of acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, and reporting data on the effects of policy and regulations• Conducted multiple independent applied microeconomics research projects simultaneously and published research articles in peer-reviewed journals• Communicated expertise with various stakeholders by presenting independent research at academic conferences and community panel discussions; delivered keynote lecture to 2019 Phi Kappa Phi induction ceremony• Led university Curriculum Committee (Aug 2019-May 2020) as chair, member from Aug 2018-May 2019• Maintained excellence and quality in student experiences (4.8/5 course evaluation average)• Successfully hired and mentored new colleagues, mentored students and teaching assistants• Demonstrated excellence in communication and grant-writing by winning $13,000 in awards• Served as an expert reviewer for Journal of Institutional Economics, European Journal of Law and Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, USFQ Economic Review Show less

  • Associate Professor Of Economics

    Aug 2022 - Jul 2023

  • Assistant Professor of Economics

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

    Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
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  U.S. Copyright Office

  Jun 2023 - now

  Economist