Joel Potter, Ph.D.

Joel M. Potter is a professor of economics in the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia. He has active academic interests in the economics of sports as well as the economics of inequality. He has become increasingly more engaged in studying political and economic inequality between men and women. Joel is Lara Polangco Potter’s husband. They are raising their five children in rural north Georgia.

• Ph.D., Economics, Kansas State University, 2008
• B.S., History and Economics, Northwest Missouri State University, 2003
• A.S., Liberal Arts, Johnson County Community College, 2001