ARC Fellows

Miguel Acosta-Henao
ARC/ESG Fellow

Miguel Acosta-Henao is a graduate student in economics and ARC Fellow at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research fields are macroeconomics, growth, and development. Miguel holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master’s degree in Economics. Additionally, he has several years of experience in emerging market macroeconomic research and has consulted for several firms in Latin America on macroeconomic analysis. He also works as an instructor at Queens College and as a research assistant for Professor Sangeeta Pratap at Hunter College.

Richard Nugent
ARC/ESG Fellow

Richard Nugent is a Ph.D. student in the economics program and an Advanced Research Collaborative/ESG Fellow at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Richard holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also completed the Chicago Civic Leadership Certificate Program. During his internship with the United States International Trade Commission, he worked on projects relevant to the NAFTA renegotiation and research on the role of foreign direct investment in the trade relationships between the United States and Mexico, and between the United States and China. Richard is interested in the role policy plays in shaping multinational enterprise behavior . He teaches at Hunter College where The Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center has supported his effort to emphasize the importance of effective writing about STEM topics in his curriculum.

Joseph van der Naald
ARC/ESG Fellow

Joseph van der Naald is a graduate student in the program in sociology and an ARC Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on the political economy of the American welfare state. Joseph is also a teaching assistant at Queens College, CUNY, and a research analyst for the Joseph S. Murphy Institute at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College. He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from Portland State University and a master’s degree in sociology and social anthropology from Central European University.

Sallie Mae Fellows

Nicholas Bauer
Sallie Mae Fellow

Nicholas Bauer is a graduate student in economics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His fields of interest include macroeconomics, international trade, and industrial organization. Nicholas holds three Bachelor degrees and a Master’s degree and has consulted on several energy industry projects in Asia and Latin America. Beyond supporting the Economic Studies Group, Nicholas also works as a full-time lecturer at Brooklyn College and an adjunct instructor at New York University’s Opportunity Programs.

Fadime Demiralp
Sallie Mae Fellow

Fadime Demiralp is a graduate student in economics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research fields are financial economics, international macroeconomics, and monetary economics. Fadime holds a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Art and Science, and a Master of Philosophy in Mathematics. Currently, Fadime works as an instructor for the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Hunter College and the Economics Department of Brooklyn College, and as a research assistant for the Economic Studies Group.

Staff

Zhuo Xi
Staff

Zhuo Xi is a graduate student in economics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His fields of interest include financial economics, international macroeconomics and economic issues in China. Zhuo holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master’s degree both in mathematics from New York University and has conducted several research projects in applied mathematics. Zhuo is mainly responsible for the WeChat platform of the Economic Studies Group. Zhuo Xi also works as an instructor and quantitative fellow at Queens College.

Gabriel Goodspeed
Intern

Gabriel Goodspeed is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, where he double majors in economics and political science. Outside of class, he is the Conference Promotion Manager for the PR and Branding team of European Horizons, a trans-Atlantic European policy youth think-tank, and he serves as the Treasurer of his College house. In the summer of his freshman year, Gabriel also worked with Oxbridge Academic Programs. He is fluent in Spanish and French and loves to travel abroad.