October 11, 2004

Economics Professor Walter Enders Selected for Prestigious Blackmon-Moody Award

by Bill Gerdes

Dr.Walt Enders, winner of the 2004 Blackmon-Moody Award.

Dr. Walter Enders, UA professor of economics and Lee Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance, has been selected as the 2004 recipient of the Frederick Moody Blackmon- Sarah McCorkle Moody Outstanding Professor Award. The award is presented annually to a University of Alabama faculty member who is judged by a selection committee to have made extraordinary contributions that reflect credit on the individual, on his or her field of study, on students, and on the University.

The Blackmon-Moody Award is one of the two highest honors bestowed on faculty at the University. Created by Frederick Moody Blackmon of Montgomery to honor the memory of his grandmother, Sarah McCorkle Moody of Tuscaloosa, the award is presented annually to a faculty member whose "singular, exceptional, or timely work, whether in the form of research, a product, a program or published material, has brought national recognition to the faculty member and The University of Alabama."

The award recipient is selected by UA President Robert Witt and a committee that reviews faculty nominations made by academic departments.

Dr. J. Barry Mason, dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration, said he is pleased that Enders has received this recognition from the University. "Walter Enders has brought a tremendous amount of recognition to the College through his hard work and dedication in an area that is crucial to the safety of the nation and the world. I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this award."

Last year, the National Academy of Sciences named Enders a corecipient of its 2003 Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War. The other co-recipient, Dr. Todd Sandler, is the Robert R. and Kathryn A. Dockson Professor of International Relations and Economics at the University of Southern California.

The NAS award is a prize of $20,000 awarded every three years for basic research in any field of cognitive or behavioral science that advances understanding of issues relating to the risk of nuclear war.

Enders and Sandler were chosen "for their joint work on transnational terrorism using game theory and time series analysis to document the cyclic and shifting nature of terrorist attacks in response to defensive counteractions," according to the announcement by the NAS.

Enders received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Toledo and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Enders has published numerous research articles in such journals as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of International Economics. He has also published articles in the American Economic Review (a journal of the American Economic Association), the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (a journal of the American Statistical Association), and the American Political Science Review (a journal of the American Political Science Association). Enders' Applied Econometric Time-Series is the leading book in the field. He has formal editorial responsibilities for three different journals in the area of international economics and has served as a policy advisor to Ukraine.

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