G. Dirk Mateer
Senior Lecturer — Ph.D., Florida State University
Distinguished Senior Lecturer

Contact
- E-mail: dmateer@utexas.edu
- Phone: 814-571-7068 (text only)
- Office: TBD
- Office Hours: TBD
- Campus Mail Code: B6200
Biography
Dirk Mateer is the author of Economics in the Movies (2005), Essentials of Economics (2015, 2021), and Principles of Economics (2013, 2017, 2020). Dirk’s work has appeared in the Journal of Economic Education on seven occasions. His website: dirkmateer.com houses over 500 media assets that relate economics to popular culture. Dirk is also an award-winning instructor. He has been featured in the "Great Teachers in Economics" series and he was also the inaugural winner of the Economic Communicator Contest. While he was at Penn State, he received the George W. Atherton Award, the university’s highest teaching award, and was voted the best overall teacher in the Smeal College of Business by the readers of Critique Magazine. While at the University of Arizona, he received the best large class lecture award in the Eller College of Management and the University’s Koffler Teaching Prize, a quadrennial award for his contributions in economic education.