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Ogden earns his Ph.D. in economics

Ellen Curtiss •July 20, 2016

BOSTON — Benjamin “Benjy” G. Ogden of Brookline, Mass. — formerly of Derby — received his doctorate in economics from Boston University in April.

A 2007 graduate of Penquis Valley High School, Ogden earned his bachelor’s in economics from Colby College in 2011 and his master’s from Boston University in 2014. He was a graduate teaching assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and from May 2014 to May 2016 Ogden was a research assistant at the Boston University School of Law.

Ogden will be an assistant professor of political science at Texas A&M University in College Station, following a post-doc at Universite libre de Bruxelles from 2016-17.

Ogden is the son of Benjamin and Tami Ogden of Derby, and he is the grandson of Ethel French of Brownville. Ogden is married to Annelise (Annie) Wilson of San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

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