Dr. Hyclak
is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department.
He is the faculty content expert in Economics. A member
of the Lehigh faculty since 1979, Dr. Hyclak has taught
undergraduate courses in economic principles and intermediate
micro- and macro-economic theory along with courses in urban
economics and labor-management relations. He won the Bernard
A Briody Jr. Award for distinguished teaching and advising
of students in 1984--a Lehigh University distinguished faculty
award and was the Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Professor of
business and economics from 1985 to 1988. Prior to his appointment
as department Chair, Professor Hyclak was Associate Director
of the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise
and the Director of the Kalmbach Institute for the Study
of Regional Political Economy. His recent research has focused
on the performance of urban labor markets with particular
emphasis on the determinants of urban unemployment and changes
in urban wage inequality.
