Erik Guzik
Associate Professor of EconomicsBiography
Dr. Erik Guzik is an associate professor of economics at USAO. He teaches a number of courses in the USAO Economics Department, including Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Comparative Economic Systems, Money and Banking, Public Finance, Behavioral Economics, and Innovation and Creativity.
Guzik’s past awards and honors include Distinction for Outstanding Graduate Teaching and the Galbraith Award for Outstanding Dissertation at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Guzik received the USAO Regents Award for Superior Teaching in 2008 and is currently working under grante from Hewlett Packard and the Kirkpatrick Foundation to promote creative problem solving in Oklahoma City schools. In 2011, Dr. Guzik received the Great Inspirations Award from Creative Oklahoma for his work with Oklahoma schools.
His presentations and written works include Creating Creative Economies, Virtual Problem Solving: A New Approach to Creative Thinking, Trade Controls and Industrial Policy: An Overdeterminist Class Position, and a book submission entitled State Power, World Trade and The Class Structure of a Nation. With broader interests creative and critical thought, Guzik is a natural fit in USAO's interdisciplinary studies core.
Before coming to USAO, Guzik was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts.
Education
Doctor of Economics, Global Trade and Trade Policy, University of Massachusetts, 2006
Bachelor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, 1992
