Linwood F. Tauheed, Ph.D.

Linwood Tauheed holds a Ph.D. in Economics/Social Science, an M.A. in Economics, and a B.S. in Computer Science/Mathematics (with Highest Academic Rank), all from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.  He has been the recipient of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Graduate Studies Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, and the Arthur Mag Fellowship, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s most prestigious graduate fellowship.

His dissertation - Towards a Socio-Educational Index: A Preliminary Critical Institutional Dynamics Model of the Interrelationship of Complementary and Limiting Factors Associated with African American Student Performance, uses an innovative social theoretical methodology as applied to System Dynamics simulation modeling, to examine the structural, cultural, and agential factors involved in the educational transaction between kindergarten students and their teachers.  It elucidates the non-linear interrelationships between these factors with regards to the growth of student’s reading cognitive skills, as affected by teacher expectations moderated by student race and class.

Dr. Tauheed is a former president of The Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City (1994-1995), the founder in 1987 of Computer Systems Engineering, a software development firm that he managed through 1997.  He is a recipient of the Black Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City’s “Small Businessman of the Year” award (1994), and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.’s - "Businessman of the Year" award (1993). 

He has served as Chief Economist for The Prospect Corridor Initiative, a program with the mission of coordinating Community Economic Development along Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri between 25th and 47th Streets.  He also served as the Chief Administrative Officer, and as a researcher for the Kansas City Missouri School District.  He is currently a University of Missouri-Kansas City Visiting Associate Professor, with a joint appointment in Economics and Black Studies.  He teaches courses in Principles of Economics, Institutional Economic Theory and African American Political Economy.

Among his publications and presentations are:

·        Black Political Economy in the 21st Century: Exploring the Interface of Economics and Black Studies - Answering the Challenge of Harold Cruse, Journal of Black Studies (forthcoming)

·        System Dynamics of Interest Rate Effects on Aggregate Demand.  In Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy, L. Randall Wray and Mathew Forstater, editors.  Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. (forthcoming)

·        Presenter at Eighth Annual Post Keynesian Conference - University of Missouri -Kansas City, June 2004 (with L. Randall Wray) - Can Interest Rates Stimulate the Economy?

·        Presenter at the Thurgood Marshall Black Heritage Stamp unveiling – University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law – January 2003 – Brown Then and Now: Social Science and the Shifting Brown Paradigm

·        Interdisciplinary Social Science, Global Social Theory, and Socio-Economics, with Doug Bowles et al., Journal of Socio-Economics, July, 1999

·        Presenter at the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc.'s (ASALH) 5th Annual Carter G. Woodson Observance Workshop 1999 - Has Our Legacy Prepared Us For The Economic Challenges of the Twenty-First Century?

·        Presenter at 10th International Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) – Vienna, Austria - 1998 - The Avoidance of Value and Valuation.

He is a member of The National Economics Association, The Association for Evolutionary Economics, The International Association for Critical Realism, Brothers of the Academy, and The System Dynamics Society.

He is a long time resident of Kansas City, Missouri, the father of three, grandfather of one, and has been active in Kansas City Missouri School District and other African American community issues as a parent and scholar/activist.