Mumtahina Islam

graduate student
  • Graduate Reserach Assistant

Contact Info

257 Snow Hall

Personal Links

Biography —

Mumtahina Islam is a 5th-year doctoral student in the Department of Economics at the University of Kansas and was a 2025-26 Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR). Her research interests include applied microeconomics, with a concentration in labor economics, education economics, gender economics, market structure, 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

Research —

Labor
Gender
Education
Market structure
Immigration
Health

Teaching —

Teaching Experience

ECON 104 - Introductory Economics (Instructor of Record)

ECON 604 - International Trade (Instructor of Record)

ECON 144 - Introduction to Macroeconomics (Instructor of Record & GTA)

ECON 142 - Introduction to Microeconomics (GTA)

Service —

Graduate Student Representative, Department of Economics, 2024-2025