Ph.D. in Economics, 1980, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
B.A., major in Economics, 1972, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Bucknell University, 1991-present, Associate Professor of Economics; 1994-present, Chair of Department of Economics; 1989-1991, Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvard Divinity School, 1988-1989, Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in Women's Studies
University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1986-1988, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Wellesley College, 1978-1986, Assistant Professor of Economics; Acting Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, 1985-1986
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1983-1984, Visiting Assistant Professorof Economics; Visiting Fellow, Labor Relations and Research Center,1982-1983
Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in Women's Studies, Harvard Divinity School, 1988-89
Anita Mishler Fellowship in Communit yEcucation
Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award, University ofMassachusetts at Amherst, 1983
International Fellow, Summer School in Non-Neoclassical Economics,Trieste, Italy, 1982
National Science Foundation Grant to attend Workshop on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for Survey Research, University of Michigan, 1980
Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Award, 1978-1979
Caught in the Crisis: Women and the Crisis of the U.S. Economy ,New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. Portions of Chapter Three were reprinted in Margaret Anderson and Patricia Collins, Race, Class, andGender: An Anthology , Second Edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth PublishingCo., 1994. Chapter Four was reprinted in Rhonda Williams, ed., Introductory Readings in Afro-American Studies , Dubuque, IA:Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 1994.
Race, Gender, and Work: An Economic History of Women in the UnitedStates, Second Edition (with Julie Matthaei), Boston, MA: South End Press, 1996.
ET: A Model for the Nation? An Evaluation of the MassachusettsEmployment and Training Choices Program, (with J. Kluver), Boston, MA:American Friends Service Committee, 1986.
"The War on Welfare," Dollars and Sense , November-December 1993.
"Reforming Welfare or Reforming the Labor Market: Lessons from the Massachusetts Employment Training Experience," presentation at Women andWelfare Reform: A Policy Conference, U.S. House of Representatives, October 23, 1993. Conference proceedings published in Social Justice (Spring 1994) and as monograph by Institute for Women's Policy Research,Washington, DC.
"A Wage of One's Own," Church and Society, January 1993.
"Caught in the Crisis," Equal Means, Spring 1993, reprinted in Feminism: Opposing Viewpoints, (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press,1994).
"Towards Real Welfare: A Progressive Anti-Poverty Proposal forthe United States," Christianity and Crisis, July 1992.
"Race, Gender, Work: The History of Asian and Asian-American Women,"(with J. Matthaei), Race and Class, January-March 1990.
"The 6% Solution: The Fed Redefines Full Employment," Dollars &Sense, November 1988, reprinted in Don Cole, ed., Annual Editions:Macroeconomics 90/91 (Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1990).
"Comparable Worth: Liberal Reform or Radical Change?" (with J.Matthaei), Socialist Review, Spring 1988.
"Square Pegs for Round Holes," (with John Miller), Dollars &Sense (March 1988), reprinted in Don Cole, ed., Annual Editions:Macroeconomics 89/90 (Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1989) andin Peter D. McClelland, ed., Introduction to Macroeconomics: 1988-89(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988).
"Defining Away the Poor," Dollars & Sense (January-February1987), reprinted in Don Cole, ed., Annual Editions: Economics 88/89(Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1988).
"Undercounting the Unemployed: What the Unemployment Rate Doesn'tShow," Dollars & Sense, October 1986, reprinted in Peter D.McClelland, ed., Introduction to Macroeconomics: 1987-88 (New York:McGraw-Hill, 1987) and in McClelland, 1988-89.
"Displaced Workers: Bearing the Costs of a Changing Economy," Dollars & Sense, October 1985, reprinted in Peter D. McClelland, ed., Introduction to Macroeconomics: 1986-87 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986).
"The 'Feminization' of Poverty, 1970 to the Present: The Influence ofRace, Class and Gender," Socialist Politics, April-May 1985.
"Comparable Worth, Incomparable Pay," (with J. Matthaei), RadicalAmerica, September-October 1984. Reprinted in For Crying Out Loud:Women and Poverty in the U.S.A., ed. by Rochelle Lefkowitz and Ann Withorn(New York: Pilgrim Press, 1986). Also reprinted in FeministPhilosophies, ed. by Janet A. Kourany, James P. Sterba, and Rosemarie Tong(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992).
"The Freeze, Militarism, and the U.S. Economy," (with Tom Riddell),Socialist Review, March 1984.
"Thatcher and Reagan: State Theory and 'Hyper-Capitalist' Regimes,"(with Joel Krieger), New Political Science, Winter 1982.
Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth Century Critical Thought, Entry on "Class." (Oxford: 1995).
Selected Essays in Collections
"Putting People First? The Clinton Administration's Anti-Poverty Policy," in State of the Union, ed. by Richard Caplan and JohnFeffer (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).
"Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity," inWomen, the State, and Welfare , ed. by Linda Gordon (Madison,WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).
"Working for Less: Single Mothers in the Workplace," in Single Parent Families: Myths, Realities and Social Policy, ed. by ElizabethMulroy (Boston: Auburn House, 1988).
"Welfare Reform: A Workhouse without Walls," in The ImperiledEconomy: Through the Safety Net (New York: Monthly Review Press, Unionfor Radical Political Economics: 1987).
"Community Education: Welfare Mothers Take A Chance," (with Pat Jerabek) in For Crying Out Loud: Women and Poverty in the U.S.A., ed.by Rochelle Lefkowitz and Ann Withorn, (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1986).
"The Politics of Reaganomics," in Free Market Conservatism: A Critique of Theory and Practice, ed. by E.J. Nell (London: George Allenand Unwin, Ltd., 1984).
Review of Confronting Poverty" Prescriptions for Change bySheldon H. Danziger et al., eds. Contemporary Sociology (forthcoming).
Review of The State and Women in the Economy: Lessons from SexDiscrimination in the Republic of Ireland, by Jean Larson Pyle, and Women's Leisure, What Leisure? by Eileen Green et. al, Annals ofthe American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 1992.
Review of Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women inAffluent America, by Ruth Sidel and A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women'sLiberation in America, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Social Policy, Summer1986.
"Impoverishment of Women," review of Working Your Way to theBottom: The Feminization of Poverty, by Hilda Scott, Women's Reviewof Books, April 1985.
"Bloodless Coup," review of Does Khaki Become You? TheMilitarization of Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe, Women's Review ofBooks, February 1984.
"Reaganomics: The Emperor's New Clothes," review of Reaganomics:Rhetoric vs. Reality, by Frank Ackerman, Socialist Review,March-April 1983.
Review of Antitrust Law: An Economic Perspective, by RichardPosner, in Vanderbilt Law Review, March 1978.
"What's Really Wrong with Welfare: A Feminist Perspective," presentation to the Feminist Policy Working Group,Northwestern University, February 13, 1995.
"Welfare Reform: What Can Economists Contribute?" roundtablepresentation at the American Economic Association/Allied Social ScienceAssociation meetings, January 7, 1995.
"Welfare Reform from a Feminist Perspective," presentation toAssociation for Public Policy and Management, Washington, DC, October 28,1993.
"Reforming Welfare or Reforming the Labor Market: Lessons from theMassachusetts Employment Training Experience," presentation at Women andWelfare, Reform, A Policy Conference, U.S. House of Representatives,October 23, 1993. Published in Social Justice (Spring 1994).
"Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies," presentation to theDickinson College Race and Gender Faculty Colloquium, August 16, 1993.
"Maids and Managers: Occupational Segregation in U.S. Women'sHistory," presentation for the Wichita State University Women'sStudies Department, March 8, 1993. Also presented at the Eighth AnnualLowell Women's History Conference, March 16, 1994.
"Expanding Economic Conversations: Towards the Missing Rhetoric ofNeeds," presented at the Association for Social Economics/Allied SocialScience Association meetings, January 5, 1993.
"Aid to Families with Dependent Children: Political and SocialConstraints and the Economist's Research Agenda," presented at theAssociation for Social Economics/Allied Social Science Associationmeetings, January 3, 1992.
"Changing Labor Force Participation of Women: Economic and CulturalFactors," presented at the North American Labor History Conference,October 17-19, 1991.
"Distributional Implications of the Current Recession," presentationat the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 1991.
"The Diversity of Women's Works: Women's History Revisited,"presentation for Women's History Month at Drew University, April 1991.
"The Political Economy of Gender," presentation at the Union ofRadical Political Economics Summer Conference, August 1990.
"Generating a Political Will Against Poverty," presentation at theBoston Foundation Persistent Poverty Seminar Series, June 1990. Transcriptpublished by the Boston Foundation, Boston, MA.
"The Political Economy of Welfare Reform," presentation to the Genderand Public Policy Faculty Seminar, Northwestern University, May 1990.
"Women's Works: Labor Market Hierarchy and the Construction of Raceand Gender Identities," presentation to the Faculty Colloquium on Race andGender Issues at Bucknell, March 1990
Discussant, "At the Margin: Poverty Re-examined," session at theAmerican Economic Association Meetings, Atlanta, GA, December 1989.
"Black Women and Aid to Families with Dependent Children:Macroeconomic Pressures, Political Responses," presentation to the "Womenand the Welfare State Conference," University of Wisconsin at Madison, June1989.
"Gender and Social Science," presentation to the Colloquium on Gender,Culture and Society, Harvard University, February 1989.
"Women and Poverty: Policy Mythology in the 1980s," presentation tothe Nieman Fellows Colloquium, Harvard University, December 1988.
Chair, Department of Economics, 1994-present.
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 1994-present. Chair.
Bucknellian Advisory Board, 1993-present.
Community Judicial Board, 1994-present.
Knight Fellowship Advisory Board, 1992-present.
Race/Gender Center Advisory Board, 1990-present.
Social Justice Residential College, Senior Fellow, 1991-present.
Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1990-present.
Presidential Search Committee, 1994. Faculty Representative.
Faculty Development Committee, 1990-1994. Chair, 1992-1994.
Curriculum Committee, 1991-1994.
General Education Committee, 1991-1993.
Retirement Incentive Task Force, 1993-94.
Search Committee, Dean of Students, 1993.
SELECTED CONSULTING AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
National Center for the Early Childhood Work Force, 1995-present.Board member of organization seeking to improve quality of child care andwages and working conditions of child care workers.
Borough of Lewisburg Affordable Housing Commission, 1995-present.Board member. Developed recommendations and strategic plan to increasesupply of affordable housing and to increase access to home ownership forlow-income households.
Bread for the World, 1988-1995. Board member for citizens'movement of 45,000 members who advocate policy changes to help overcomehunger in the United States and overseas. Executive Committee member1992-present.
Task Force on Vocation and Work, Presbyterian Church,1987-present. Task made site visits across the United States and into the Mexican border region to investigate conditions of work and wages, developed social policy recommendations for the Presbyterian Church.
Economic Literacy Project, Women for Economic Justice, 1980-1989.Designed economic literacy workshops and conferences for a variety of community- and workplace-based groups, coordinated outreach, wrote foundation proposals, coordinated volunteers and reported to board ofcommunity-based organization.
Interreligious Economic Crisis Organizing Network, 1983-1989.Raised funds and developed women's committee for national network ofcommunity-based groups addressing economic development, plant closures, and worker rights concerns. Provided technical assistance to community groupson strategies for responding to economic crisis.
Dollars and Sense, 1984-present. As member of collective, reviewed, edited, wrote articles, and participated in production and fundraising for economics journal. Currently serving as EditorialAssociate, responsible for reviewing and editing articles.
Employment Project, Interfaith Action for Economic Justice, 1988-89. Coordinated national campaign to mobilize religiouscommunity around employment issues for Washington-based religiouscoalition. Planned site visits to 7 areas across the United States,prepared reports and monographs, developed policy agenda, and organizedsupport for Federal policies to address unemployment, underemployment,unfair working conditions.
Jesse Jackson for President Campaign, 1987-88. Social policyadvisor to campaign. Drafted issue briefs on women, elders, and childcare.Prepared major position paper on family policy. Briefed candidate fordebates. Answered media questions on social policy.
Beyond Welfare Reform Conference, 1987. Raised funds and designednational conference of 40 recipients and activists to address currentwelfare reform policy initiatives.
Up to Poverty Campaign, 1986-87. As member of legal strategyteam, provided expert testimony in successful lawsuit of welfare rights andhousing groups challenging state welfare policy.
National Council of Churches, Justice for Women Working Group,1984-1986. Organized and designed national conference for 200 womenactivists in church-based and community-based groups addressing problemsfaced by low-income women. Prepared report identifying gaps in advocacyefforts and service provision.
American Friends Service Committee, 1986. Co-authoredevaluation of the Massachusetts Employment and Training Choices Program,briefed print and broadcast media, key advocates and legislators on thefindings.
Religious Network for Equality for Women, 1984-1989. Developedpopular economic literacy curriculum for nationwide use in adult educationsettings. Designed and implemented pilot process in 10 sites nationwide,with participants from diverse racial-ethnic and class backgrounds.
Articles in a variety of periodicals and organizational newsletters,including Response (United Methodist Women's Division), Probe(National Assembly of Religious Women), Peaceworks (New England Region of the American Friends Service Committee), IECON Newsletter (Interreligious Economic Crisis Organizing Network), ListenReal Loud (Nationwide Women's Program of the American Friends Service Committee, Democratic Left (Democratic Socialists of America).Occasional Papers and Action Alerts for Bread for the World.
Editorial Associate, Dollars and Sense
Reviewer, Feminist Economics
Review of Radical Political Economics
Union for Radical Political Economics (National Steering Committee,1990-1993)
American EconomicAssociation (Eastern Executive Board, Committee on the Status of Women, 1980-1982).
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