The Carey Business School has made a new hire and has appointed Valerie Suslow to the position of Vice Dean for Faculty and Research effective August 1, 2015, according to a press release on the school’s website.
“Valerie Suslow is a proven leader and scholar who will enhance our vibrant faculty and school community. Her leadership will strengthen our growing faculty,” said Bernie Ferrari, Carey’s dean in a statement on that same press release.
Suslow’s has a background in the study of explicit price fixing and cartel operations, specifically the determinants of cartel duration and how organizational features of cartels contribute to their stability. Her research has been published in journals like the International Journal of Industrial Organization, The Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Antitrust Law Journal, and the Journal of International Economic Law. Suslow is a senior editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.
Suslow has won awards for her service as a teacher: She has received are the Victor L. Bernard Faculty Award for Leadership in Teaching from the University of Michigan and the John M. Olin National Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Professor Suslow will replace Phillip Phan, who is stepping down as Executive Vice Dean of the Carey Business School, who will remain an active member of the school’s full-time faculty as a professor.