Florenz Plassmann

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science and Economics, Xavier University

Florenz Plassmann is professor of economics and political science at Xavier University, where he serves as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Plassmann earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech. He has served as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, and he was a faculty member in the departments of economics and political science at Binghamton University, where he also served as chair of the Economics Department and as Associate Dean of Harpur College of Arts & Sciences.  

Dr. Plassmann has been a program director of the economics program at the National Science Foundation as well as a visiting resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund.  He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a past associate editor of the journal Economics Bulletin. Dr. Plassmann has served on over 20 doctoral committees, and he is the author of more than 30 publications in the fields of voting theory, public choice, law and economics, urban economics, environmental economics, the history of economic thought, computational economics, and econometrics.