Associate Professor
Dept of Economics

An associate professor of Economics, Dr. Sorrentino’s expertise is in the areas of environmental and energy economics. For undergraduates, he teaches Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics Theory, and the writing-intensive Energy, Ecology, and Economy. At the graduate level, he teaches Environmental Economics, online MBA Economics Analysis, and online MBA Economic Decision Making in the Firm. Dr. Sorrentino is currently conducting a survey of the donors that made possible the preservation of the 160-acre Raytharn Farm in Huntingdon Valley. He is also researching environmental systems and the economics of distance education. The latter research involves a survey of MBA students’ perspectives on the use of technology in the MBA program. Dr. Sorrentino is an associated faculty member of the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple University Ambler. He was the Christian P. and Mary F. Lindback Award recipient for Distinguished Teaching at Temple University in 1999. He is a member of the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, the International Society for Ecological Economics, the League of Conservation Voters, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Environmental Defense Fund.