Erin Cottle Hunt
Assistant Professor of Economics
Economics Department
Division of History and Social Sciences
Erin Cottle Hunt joined the Economics Department at Reed College in 2023. Her research interests include macroeconomics, public finance, and life-cycle economics. She is an applied theorist and uses analytical and quantitative models to answer questions about social security, pensions, saving, and the macroeconomy. She teaches macroeconomic and computational economics courses at Reed College. Prior to working at Reed, Erin was an assistant professor of economics at Lafayette College in Easton Pennsylvania. She completed a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Oregon in 2018, a M.A. in Political Science at Utah State University in 2011, and B.A.s in Economics and Political Science at Utah State in 2009.