Dr. Valerie Suslow is an Adjunct Professor at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary. She is also a Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School, which she joined in 2015. Dr. Suslow earned her undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
She spent much of her academic career at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, as Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, and the Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law. Dr. Suslow has held several academic leadership roles, including Senior Associate Dean for MBA Programs at Michigan Ross and Vice Dean for Faculty & Research at Johns Hopkins Carey.
Her research interests focus on the economics of explicit price fixing by companies and associated antitrust policy enforcement, and has been widely published in both academic and policy journals. She is on the editorial board of the Antitrust Law Journal, serving as Economics Vice Chair.
Dr. Suslow has extensive experience teaching applied microeconomics, industrial organization, and antitrust policy to business students in full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs. She also enjoys serving as a faculty advisor for MBA experiential (field project) teams, which she has taught at both Michigan and Hopkins. At William & Mary's Mason School, she teaches Managerial Economics & Public Policy in the Executive MBA program.
Her awards include the Victor L. Bernard Faculty Award for Leadership in Teaching and Andy Andrews Distinguished Service Award at the Ross School, and in 2023 she received the Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable - Leadership in Graduate Business Education Curricular Innovation Award.
Dr. Suslow serves as a volunteer in Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). Her husband, David Ardis, earned BAs in religion and history from William & Mary in 1982.