elementary education

After graduating from UC Davis, I went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard in 1983. I taught for six years as an assistant professor at UC Irvine before moving to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where I still teach. Being at a liberal arts college has allowed me to stretch beyond my formal area of expertise. I have done that extensively, working in areas as far-flung as sports psychology, political geography, communications theory, public health, economics pedagogy, as well as a bit of economics. 

David G. Mead passed away on September 19, 2016, at the age of 94. 

He began study at Columbia University in New York, but delayed his degree with the start of World War II. He served as a sergeant in the US Army in the Pacific theater. When David returned after his honorable discharge in 1946, he earned his Ph.D. in 1959 with the dissertation Linear and Nonlinear Differential Polynomials. He met his wife, Alba Saba, while at Columbia, and began his teaching career there.