Joseph M. Phillips, Jr., PhD

Dean

PhD, Economics, University of Notre Dame
MA, Economics, University of Notre Dame
BA, Economics Magna Cum Laude, LaSalle University

Phone: 206.296.5699

Office:  Pigott 317

Email: phillipsj@seattleu.edu

Department: Dean's Office

Syllabus For:

ECON 271 Principles of Economics - Macro - Spring 2007

Biographical Information:

Joseph M. Phillips was appointed Dean of the Albers School of Business and Economics July 1, 2001. He joined Seattle University after serving on the faculty of the College of Business Administration at Creighton University. He started at Creighton in 1982, serving as Associate Dean for the last four and half years.

Phillips graduated with a B.A. in economics from LaSalle University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He teaches primarily in the areas of money and banking and economic development. In 1986 he received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence, the university’s highest teaching award.

Dr. Phillips has published a number of articles in professional journals, including the Southern Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Development Quarterly, Land Economics, Economics of Education Review, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Growth and Change, Journal of Insurance Issues and Practices, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, Review of Regional Studies, Journal of Labor Research, and the International Economic Journal. He has also co-edited On the Condition of Labor and the Social Question One Hundred Years Later, published by Edward Mellen Press.

Phillips is on the board of directors of EvergreenBank, where he serves on the bank’s audit committee. Between 1989 and 2006, he served for 15 years as an outside director of the board of directors of Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA), an agricultural lender in the Farm Credit System, and was the first person appointed to that role. Phillips also served on the Board of Directors of the Creighton Federal Credit Union from 1996 to 2001. As Treasurer, he was a member of the board executive committee and formerly chaired the credit union’s Supervisory Committee. In 2001, he received the credit union’s Distinguished Service Award. Phillips also has served as parish president of Holy Family Catholic Church in Omaha, NE, on the Board of Trustees of Eastside Catholic High School in Bellevue, WA, and on the board of the Accounting Career Awareness Program. Phillips currently serves on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound.

He serves as President Emeritus of the Western Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, having previously served as President and Vice President-Program Chair. He is also past president of the American Jesuit Colleges and Universities Business School Dean’s group.

His wife, Mary Sebek, is a dentist, and they have three children – Michael (20), Lizzy (18), and Greg (17).

Updated 8/01/07