Rick Szostak

Rick Szostak joined the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta in 1985. His B.A. is from McGill and his PhD from Northwestern University. Szostak's research interests span the fields of economic history, methodology, history of technology, ethics, study of science, information science, and especially the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. He has served on the Board of the Association for Integrative Studies for most of the last decade and is President 2011-3. He has served on the governing councils of the interdisciplinary programs in Humanities Computing, Science Technology and Society, and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. He has spent sabbatical leaves at the University of New South Wales and European University Institute in Florence. In 2007, he taught at the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts study-abroad program in Cortona, Italy. He is the author of 10 books and over 30 journal articles. His current research agenda is described on his web page, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.