Economics Department
Faculty Profile
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Chandini Sankaran
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Biography
Dr. Chandini Sankaran is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University in 2005. She taught approximately 3,000 students at KSU over a 7-year period. At KSU, she was awarded the undergraduate teaching excellence awards in 2002 and 2004. Prior to joining the Moore School's Economics Department in Fall 2008, she spent three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In summer 2008, Dr. Sankaran attended the Teaching Innovations Program (sponsored by the Committee on Economic Education), a program that offers specific techniques of incorporating interactive teaching techniques into undergraduate economics courses. She is currently participating in phase 2 of this program, and hopes to gradually introduce these techniques in her classes at South Carolina. Dr. Sankaran has teaching experience in the following courses: Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Economic Development, and Economics of Innovation and Technology. Dr. Sankaran concentrates on applied research in economic development (particularly international and sustainable development), income and education inequalities, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her interest in economic development originates from the first 18 years of her life spent in Malaysia. Her teaching interest in business economics stems from her undergraduate training in business and economics (Magna Cum Laude), the MBA classes that she took while pursuing her economics graduate degree, and her professional experience. In Spring 2008, she won the Outstanding Faculty Contribution- Excellence in Scholarship award from the Division of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Education
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