SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - A professor of economics at the University of California, Riverside, will be the 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar at Wittenberg University.

Richard Sutch, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Social and Economic Policy at Riverside, will present a public lecture, "The Economic Consequences of Emancipation: Exploitation, Sharecropping, Black Agency and White Racism in the Post-Civil War South" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13 in the HPER Center. At a campus colloquium at 4:15 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, he will speak on "The Economic Consequences of Immigration: The American Case in Historical Perspective" in Kissell Auditorium in Koch Hall. Both events are open to the public free of charge.

Sutch has published widely on the economic history of American slavery and of African Americans following Emancipation; the history of saving; trends in retirement; the economic and demographic consequences of immigration to the United States and the methodology of economic history. He is co-author of several books and is one of the general editors of the forthcoming "Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition," a massive three-volume compilation of historical time series.

Prior to his appointment at Riverside in 1998, Sutch taught at Berkeley for 30 years. During that time he received a Distinguished Teaching Award and was elected Professor of the Year by the undergraduate economics association. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Sutch was recently elected president of the International Economic History Association, the first American to receive this honor in the 40-year history of the association.

Sutch earned a bachelor's degree from University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.