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Joan Hicks
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Joan Hamory Hicks is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Hicks holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on health, education and transitions to adulthood among rural African youth.