Mumtahina Islam
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
Contact Info
257 Snow Hall
Biography —
Mumtahina Islam is a 4th-year doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas and a 2025-26 Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR). Her research interests are Applied Microeconomics, with a concentration on Labor Economics, Education Economics, Gender Economics, and Health Economics. She is currently working on exploring the dynamics of wage inequality and institutional structure in the U.S. academic labor market.
Education —
M.A. in Economics, University of Kansas, USA
M.S. in Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
B.S. in Economics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Teaching —
GTA, ECON 104 - Introductory Economics (FA25)
Office Hours: Wednesday (W): 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, Friday (F): 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Teaching Experience
ECON 604 (Instructor of Record)
ECON 144 (Instructor of Record)
ECON 142 (GTA)
ECON 144 (GTA)
Service —
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Economics, 2024-2025