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Lee Coppock is a professor and undergraduate director in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught more than 20,000 students in principles of macroeconomics. He has received several teaching awards, including the 2017 Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award from the Southern Economics Association and the 2018 UVA
Alumni Distinguished Professor Award. Before teaching at UVA, Lee taught for nine years at Hillsdale College, where he honed his skills in small classes of 10–15 students, giving him an understanding of each student’s point of view. Now teaching more than 1,000 students in a class, he applies what he learned in those small classes through participation, captivating imagery, and relevant stories that draw students’ attention. Lee has taken a very active role in the discussion of how to best teach monetary policy to typical students. His recent paper, “Teaching Principles of Macroeconomics after COVID-19,” will soon be published in the Journal of Economic Education.