Dr. Sebastian Berger, assistant professor of economics at Roanoke College, was recently honored with an international economics award. The 2008 Helen Potter Award of Special Recognition was presented to Berger by the Association for Social Economics for the most original article by a promising scholar.

The article was published in the September 2008 issue of Review of Social Economy. "Karl Polanyi's and Karl William Kapp's Substantive Economics: Important Insights from the Kapp-Polanyi Correspondence," was written when Berger taught at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He joined Roanoke College in the fall of 2008.

"It's an incredibly impressive thing for our students to have a professor who has been recognized internationally for research," says Dr. Larry Lynch, chairman of the business administration and economics department. "I don't know that our students know about it -- it's not that we tell them he won this award," Lynch adds. "It's just that it shows the caliber of faculty members we have teaching our students."

For more on the award, see The Notebook on sosalem.com

Submitted by Roanoke College