Capitol Building, 3rd Floor
500 East Capitol Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501
201 South Menlo Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Full Name:
Reynold F. Nesiba
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Erika; 2 children: Nathaniel, Brandon
Birth Date:
05/07/1966
Birth Place:
St. Paul, NE
Home City:
Sioux Falls, SD
MA, Economics, University of Notre Dame, 1989-1995
PhD, Economics, University of Notre Dame, 1989-1995
BA, Economics, University of Denver, 1984-1989
Minority Leader, South Dakota State Senate, 2023-present
Senator, South Dakota State Senate, District 15, 2017-present
Minority Whip, South Dakota State Senate, 2019-2023
Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 15, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022
Member Board of Directors, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), 2013-2016
Candidate, South Dakota State House of Representatives, District 12, 2004
Member, Commerce and Energy Committee
Member, Government Operations and Audit Committee
Member, Joint Committee on Legislative Procedure
Member, Legislative Procedure Committee
Member, Retirement Laws Committee
Member, State Affairs Committee
Former Member, Industrial Hemp Study, South Dakota State Senate
Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, Economics, Augustana University, 1995-present
Co-Author, An Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions
Co-Author, Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive Views
Senior Visiting Scholar, Curtin University, 2003
Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, 2002
Member, Saint Mark's Lutheran Church, 1995-present
President/Member, Association for Institutional Thought, present
Member/Mission Committee Member, Saint Luke's Lutheran Church, present
Member, Association for Evolutionary Economics
Member, Modern Monetary Theory
Member, Western Social Science Association
Board of Directors Member, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), 2013-2016
Chair, Minnehaha County Democratic Party, 2002
Awards:
Augustana Student Association Faculty Recognition Award, 2006
Vernon and Mildred Niebuhr Faculty Excellence Award, 2006
Publications:
Book Review of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton, The Social Science Journal 51:3, 491--492,2014
Economic Classes: The Poor, the Shrinking Middle Class, and the Wealthy, Chapter 22 In the Guide to U.S. Economic Policy, edited by Robert E. Wright and Thomas W. Zeiler, 319-335, SAGE/CQ Press,2014
Do Institutionalists and Post-Keynesians Share a Common Approach to Modern Monetary Theory, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies:Intervention, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 44--60,2013
What do Undergraduates Study in Heterodox Economic Programs? An Examination of the Curricula Structure at 36 Self-Identified Programs, On the Horizon,2012