Economics Department Staff and Academic Advisors

Please note that we are no longer in Teaching Unit 2 Building (TU2). Faculty, staff, and advisors are now located in the College of Technology Building (T2). The main office is located suite 303.

Department Business Administration

Tuan

Tuan Hoang
Department Business Administrator
tahoang2@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713-743-0767
Office: Teaching Unit II Room 104J

 
Ashton

Ashton Goudeau
Financial Coordinator II
abgoudea@central.uh.edu 
Phone: 713-743-0671
Office: Teaching Unit II Room 104F

 

Undergraduate Program

Undergraduate Academic Advisors

Ever Abamba
Academic Advisor I
eabamba@Central.UH.EDU 
Phone: 713-743-3804
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall Room 315

Natalia Calderon 
Academic Advisor II
ncaldero@Central.UH.EDU
Phone: 713-743-6688
Office: Philip Guthrie Hoffman Hall (PGH) Room 382

Evan Jones
Academic Advisor I
ecjones7@CougarNet.UH.EDU
Phone: 713-743- 1906
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall Room 315

Sue Schindler
Academic Advisor III
bschindl@cougarnet.uh.edu
Phone: 713-743-4145
Office: Agnes Arnold Hall Room 503
 

Undergraduate Program Director

Dr. Zhivan
Natalia Zhivan 
Ph.D., Boston College 
Instructional Associate Professor
nazhivan@uh.edu 
Phone: 713-743-0505
Office: Teaching Unit II Room 104E

  

Graduate Programs

Graduate Advisor – Ph.D. and M.A. Applied Economics

Dustin Jackson
Academic Advisor II
dajacks5@cougarnet.uh.edu 
Phone: (713) 743-1453
Office: 104

 

M.A. Applied Economics Program Director

Rebecca Achee Thornton
Rebecca Achée Thornton
Ph.D., University of Houston
Instructional Professor
rthornton@uh.edu
Phone: 713-743-3820
Office: Teaching Unit II Room 104D

 

Ph.D. Program Director

Gergely Ujhelyi
Gergely Ujhelyi
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor
Political Economy, Public Economics, Development Economics
gujhelyi@uh.edu
Phone: 713.743.3815 • 230 TU2