Brad R. Humphreys is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research at the John Chambers College of Business & Economics and Professor of Economics at West Virginia University, where he also serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the Eastern Economic Journal. He earned his PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and has held faculty positions at the University of Alberta, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County, along with visiting appointments at the University of Paderborn, the German Sport University Cologne, and CERGE-EI in Prague as a Fulbright Scholar.