William Masters
(617) 636-3751
150 Harrison Ave, Room 251
Research/Areas of Interest
Economics and policy analysis for agriculture, food and nutrition
Education
- PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, 1991
- BA, Yale University, New Haven, United States, 1984
- ND, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA, United States, 1981
Biography
Will Masters is a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition, with a secondary appointment in Tufts University's Department of Economics. He is coauthor of the new textbook on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and leads the Food Prices for Nutrition project that computes the cost and affordability of healthy diets among other initiatives. From 2011 to 2014 he served as chair of the Friedman School's Department of Food and Nutrition Policy, and before coming to Tufts was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), and also at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90), Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (2000) and Columbia University (2003-04). He is former editor-in-chief of the journal Agricultural Economics (2006-2011), and an elected Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) from which he received the Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis (2013), the Publication of Enduring Quality Award (2014), the Quality of Research Discovery Award (2019) and the Quality of Communications Award (2022). At Tufts his courses on economics of agriculture, food and nutrition were recognized with student-nominated, University-wide teaching awards in 2019 and 2022.