Dr. Va Nee L. Van Vleck is an associate professor of economics at California State
University, Fresno, where she teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomic
Theory, Health Economics, Economics and Crime, and other applications of microeconomic
analysis. Dr. Van Vleck has taught at Fresno State since 2005 after having taught
for several other colleges and universities in the West and Midwest. She received
her doctoral degree from the University of Iowa, her master’s degree from Columbia
University in New York City, and her undergraduate degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University
in her hometown, Lincoln, Nebraska. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship
in public health/alcohol studies in cooperation with the Prevention Research Center
and Alcohol Research Group in the Bay Area. Dr. Van Vleck’s research interests include
teaching and pedagogy in economics, the interactions of California legal systems and
community patterns of drunk driving, and several aspects of economic history. Dr.
Van Vleck's dissertation, which examined technological path-dependence in early twentieth-century
British railroads. For her dissertation, Dr. Van Vleck was awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron
Prize from the Economic History Association for outstanding dissertation. She has
published in the Accident Analysis and Prevention, International Journal of Pluralism
and Economic Education, International Journal of Social Economics, and Journal of
Economic History.
Applied Microeconomics, Economic History, Law & Economics, Social Economics
