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The American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) is a professional association of economists in the United States that promotes the representation of Hispanic Americans within the economics profession and supports economic research relevant to Hispanic Americans. ASHE is recognized by the American Economic Association as one of the academic organizations comprising the Allied Social Sciences Associations.
Major activities
ASHE organizes sessions at academic conferences, including the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations, the Southern Economic Association, and the Western Economic Association International. ASHE has also co-sponsored and co-organized a series of national conferences, including the 2010 and 2014 Hispanic Economic Issues conferences with the Americas Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the 2011 Hispanic Economic Experience conference with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and the annual Freedom and Justice conferences with the National Economic Association, starting in 2014. Moreover, ASHE co-hosted the annual Economic Issues Affecting Hispanic and African American Communities conferences with the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University between 2007 and 2019.
During her presidency, Marie T. Mora founded the ASHE awards, including the biennial Academic Achievement Award (inaugurated in 2008) to recognize the impact of members on research/scholarship, and the biennial Outstanding Service Awards (inaugurated in 2009) to recognize the impact of the non-board members on ASHE by individuals as well as institutions and organizations. The ASHE Academic Achievement Awards are presented in even-numbered years at the annual business meeting (held at the ASSA annual meetings); the Outstanding Service Awards are presented in odd-numbered years. Mora also founded the ASHE Dissertation Fellowships (inaugurated in 2008) for Ph.D. students.
In conjunction with the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession and the National Economic Association, ASHE publishes an annual newsletter called The Minority Report.
Starting in 2009, ASHE's Hispanic Economic Outlook Committee (which was co-founded by Marie T. Mora, Mark Hugo Lopez, and Alberto Davila in 2008) began disseminating the Hispanic Economic Outlook reports. These reports are available at the ASHE website, and selected issues can be accessed at the Social Science Research Network website.
ASHE Presidents
Jose Fernandez, University of Louisville, January 2021 - present
Mónica García-Pérez, St. Cloud State University, January 2020 - December 2020
Fernando Lozano, Pomona College, January 2019 - December 2019
Susan Pozo, Western Michigan University, January 2018 - December 2018
Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University, January 2017 - December 2017
Joseph Guzman, Michigan State University, January 2016 - December 2016
Alberto Davila, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley / The University of Texas - Pan American (now at Southeast Missouri State University), January 2015 - December 2015
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University, January 2014 - December 2014
David J. Molina, University of North Texas, October 2010 - December 2013
Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas - Pan American (now The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), October 2006 - September 2010
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University, October 2004 - September 2006
Mark Hugo Lopez, University of Maryland (now at the Pew Research Center), October 2003 - September 2004
Adela de la Torre, University of California Davis (now at San Diego State University), October 2002 - September 2003
ASHE Academic Achievement Awards
2020 - Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University
2018 - Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Research Center
2016 - Adela de la Torre, University of California Davis
2014 - Alberto Davila, The University of Texas - Pan American
2012 - Stephen Trejo, The University of Texas at Austin
2010 - Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Columbia University
2008 - Ronald Oaxaca, University of Arizona; and Refugio Rochin, University of California Davis
ASHE Outstanding Service Awards - Individuals
2021 - Alberto Davila, Southeast Missouri State University
2019 - Marie T. Mora, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
2017 - Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
2015 - Belinda Roman, Palo Alto College
2013 - Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University
2011 - Isabel Ruiz, Sam Houston State University
2009 - Benjamin Widner, New Mexico State University; and Jose Pagan, Department of Economics & Finance, The University of Texas - Pan American
ASHE Outstanding Service Awards - Institutions & Organizations
2021 - Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics
2019 - Michigan State University, and Western Michigan University
2017 - National Economic Association
2015 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, University of New Mexico
2013 - Western Economic Association International, and Community Development Office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
2011 - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Department of Economics at Texas A&M University
2009 - Southern Economic Association, and Department of Economics at Texas A&M University
ASHE Dissertation Awards
2020 - Jetson Leder-Luis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019 - Maria Camila Morales, Georgia State University
Founding members
ASHE was founded in January 2002 during the 2002 AEA/ASSA annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, over a dinner meeting of Hispanic and Latino/a economists organized by Joseph Guzman and Sue Stockly, sponsored by the RAND Corporation. The founding members included the following.
Alberto Davila, University of Texas - Pan American
Adela de la Torre, University of California Davis
Joseph Guzman, RAND Corporation
Mark Hugo Lopez, University of Maryland
David Molina, University of North Texas
Marie T. Mora, New Mexico State University
Jose Pagan, University of Texas - Pan American
Refugio Rochin, University of California Davis
Richard Santos, University of New Mexico
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
Stephen Trejo, University of Texas at Austin
Arturo Gonzalez, University of Arizona
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, University of Arizona
References
External links
American Society of Hispanic Economists
AEA Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
National Economic Association
The Minority Report