Brooke Conaway is an Instructor of Economics at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Conaway joined the faculty of Georgia Southern in 2009. She earned her Ph.D. (2009) and her M.A. in Economics (2007) from Clemson University. She completed her undergraduate degree in 2003 at Georgia College and State University in both economics and political science. Prior to coming to Georgia Southern University, Dr. Conaway taught Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics and Managerial Economics as a Graduate Instructor at Clemson University.

Her primary research interests include Industrial Organization, Public Choice and Education, and her dissertation was written under Robert D. Tollison and Michael T. Maloney in the fields of Public Choice and Education. This dissertation included essays concerning the causes of interest group formation within a state and whether more interest group activity translates into reduced economic development. Her essay on education used data from California counties to show that public schools improve as a result of competition from private schools, yet the effect is lagged by several years.