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EDUARDO CENCI

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Economics

BIO

Eduardo Cenci is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Economics and the Division of Public Affairs at the University of Utah. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Eduardo obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also completed the Delta Certificate in Teaching and Learning. His research interests are migration, labor mobility, and rural development broadly defined; his teaching experience includes courses in Principles of Economics, Microeconomics, Program Evaluation, Applied Econometrics, and Quantitative Methods and Tools. Eduardo grew up on a farm in central Brazil and worked many years in my family’s farming business before transitioning to academia.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
    Economics1 Jul 2025 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, United States16 Aug 2021 - 31 Jul 2024

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States15 Aug 2015 - 10 May 2021
  • M.A., Economics
    Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil1 Jan 2013 - 30 Apr 2015
  • B.A., Accounting
    Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil1 Mar 2002 - 31 Mar 2006

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certificate in Teaching and Learning
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States15 Jul 2021 - 15 Jul 2018
    Delta Program

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Portuguese
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Italian
    Can read and understand
  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read and understand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH