How To Contact Me

Graduate program inquiries. I stepped down as Director of Graduate Studies for our department in May 2026.

  • If you’re interested in the professional MA program, please check the website. Contact information for the professional MA program admission coordinator is found on that page. At this time, applicants to the professional MA program are unlikely to be funded as a GTA. If you require funding, you should apply for the PhD program to have a realistic chance of getting an offer.
  • If you’re interested in the PhD program check the website.
  • If you have questions about the PhD program check out the FAQ.
  • If you’ve made an honest effort to find something about the PhD program on our website and failed, you can find the email address for the current Director of Graduate Studies, which should be easy to do if you’ve actually checked out the website.

Note that the DGS is very busy. You won’t make a good impression if you send an AI-generated wall of text to ask a question about the PhD program, particularly if that question has a clear answer on our website. And if you’re wondering, a wall of text from an LLM doesn’t make you look thorough, it makes you look lazy and disinterested in whatever PhD program at whatever university you’re inquiring about.

Email. You can send an email to my work address. I’m not particularly responsive, and given the volume of low quality email I get, I sometimes miss messages that are deserving of a response.

Twitter. I used to use it heavily, but after they shut off Tweetdeck and started forcing racist content in my timeline, I cut back to no more than a few visits a year. Best not to try to contact me there. The closest thing to social media is my LinkedIn account, but I don’t spend time there either.

Textbook sales/attempts to get money out of students. Email messages you send to me are immediately deleted. I’m too busy to read the 482nd set of marketing materials someone sent me this month. If you’ve sent me more than three pieces of email, I almost certainly have a filter that deletes your messages automatically. I don’t care about you or your product. I’m not interested in meeting with you to discuss a principles of macroeconomics textbook that I can use in my graduate econometrics course, and I’m not going to schedule a 20 minute phone call to talk about my teaching needs. I do make exceptions for anyone paying my standard consulting rate of $250/hour, billed in one hour increments, as long as payment is made in advance.

Snail Mail. You can send snail mail to:

Lance Bachmeier
Department of Economics
Waters Hall 321
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506

By Phone. Don’t call me. The bottom dwellers from Top Hat call me, interrupt me while I’m preparing for class, and try high-pressure sales tactics, even though I’ve repeatedly told them to stop. If you’re a low-life like Top Hat, I promise to treat you appropriately.