CURRICULUM VITAE
DIANA STRASSMANN
November 1999
Office Address: Home Address:
Feminist Economics 5211 Briar Drive
Rice University -- MS 9 Houston, Texas 77056
6100 Main Street (713) 627-7215
P.O. Box 1892 (713) 963-9687 (fax)
Houston, Texas 77251-1892 (713) 498-6968 (mobile) (713) 348-4660 email: dls@rice.edu
(713) 348-5495 (fax)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of Economics
November 1983 Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Dynamic Limit Pricing
and Contestable Markets in the Deregulated Airline Industry
M.A. Harvard University, Department of Economics
June 1982
A.B. Princeton University, Magna Cum Laude in Economics
June 1977 Undergraduate Thesis: Bureaucratic Behavior and Responses
to Effluent Fees (Wolf Balleisen Memorial Thesis Prize,
Honorable Mention).
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Current Positions: Senior Research Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies,
Rice University, July 1992 to present.
Editor, Feminist Economics, Journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics, March 1994 to present.
Past Positions:
Rice University 1991-1992,
1989, and 1983-1987
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University 1979-1983
Instructor,Wellesley College 1982-1983
Consultant, Mathematica, Inc. 1978
OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Board of Directors, International Association for Feminist Economics, July 1992 to present.
Board of Directors, Society for Critical Exchange, January 1999 to present.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Feminist Economic Theory
Economic Rhetoric and Methodology
Contemporary History of Economic Thought
Industrial Organization of Economics Profession
GRANTS:
The James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation, Grant to support the launching of Feminist Economics, November 1, 1994.
National Science Foundation, Grant #8808901. "Occupational Choice, Mobility, and Wage Differentials," July 15, 1988 - June 31, 1992.
Committee on Undergraduate Teaching, "Rhetoric, Methodology, and Knowledge in Economics: Innovative Course Proposal," Funded for Spring 1991 and 1992.
Miscellaneous Rice University Seed Grants, 1984 - 1992.
FELLOWSHIP AND HONORS:
Best New Journal, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1997
Magna Teaching Citation, Rice Thresher, 1985.
Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard Airline Deregulation Project, 1980 -1983.
Harvard University Fellowships, 1979 - 1983.
Walter D. Salant Fellowship, 1977 - 1979.
Wolf Balleisen Memorial Thesis Prize, Honorable Mention, 1977.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Airline Deregulation: The Early Experience (with Benjamin A. Berman, John R. Meyer, Ivor P. Morgan, and Clinton V. Oster, Jr.), Boston: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1981.
Journal Articles:
"Introduction: Interrogating Markets/Interrogating Gender." Feminist Economics Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996).
"Shifting the Paradigm: Value in Feminist Critiques of Economics." Forum for Social Economics Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 1995).
"Feminist Thought and Economics; or, What do the Visigoths Know?" American Economic Review Vol. 84, No. 2 (May 1994): 153-58.
"The Stories of Economics and the Power of the Storyteller,"
History of Political Economy Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 1993):145-63.
"Potential Competition in the Deregulated Airline Industry," The Review of Economics and Statistics November 1990.
"Asymmetric Mobility and Wage Differentials," (with Peter Hartley), Social Science Journal, April 1990.
"Effluent Fees and Market Structure," (with Wallace E. Oates), Journal of Public Economics, 24 (1984), pp. 29-46. Reprinted as Chapter 16 in Wallace E. Oates, ed., The Economics of the Environment (London: Edward Elgar, 1992), and reprinted in The Economics of Environmental Regulation (London: Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
"The Effect of Airline Deregulation on the Demand for Travel," The Journal of Contemporary Business Vol. 9, No. 2 (1980).
"The Use of Effluent Fees to Regulate Public Sector Sources of Pollution: An Application of the Niskanen Model," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (with Wallace E. Oates), September 1978, pp. 283-291. Reprinted in The Economics of Environmental Regulation (London: Edward Elgar, forthcoming ).
Articles in Magazines:
"How Economists Shape Their Tales." Challenge, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January-February 1996).
Articles in Books:
"Feminist Economics," Margaret Lewis and Janice Peterson, eds., The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics (Glascow: Edward Elgar, Inc., forthcoming).
"Storytellers and Gatekeepers in Economics," (with Livia Polanyi), Chapter 5 in Victoria Bergvall, Janet Bing and Alice Freed, eds., Language and Gender Research: Theory and Method (London: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
"The Economist as Storyteller: What the Texts Reveal," (with Livia Polanyi), Chapter 3 in E. Kuiper and J. Sap, eds., Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory (London: Routledge, 1995).
"Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics," Chapter 3 in Marianne Ferber and Julie Nelson, eds., Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
"The Effectiveness of Effluent Charges Where Industry Structure Varies," (with Wallace E. Oates), Chapter 14 in J. Cumberland, J. Hibbs, and I. Hoch, eds., The Economics of Managing Chlorofluorocarbons: Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Issues, Resources for the Future Research, Inc. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1982).
"Impacts on Air Fares and Traffic," Chapter 4 in John R. Meyer, Clinton V. Oster, Jr., Ivor P. Morgan, Benjamin A. Berman, and Diana L. Strassmann, Airline Deregulation: The Early Experience (Boston: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1981).
"Market Structure Considerations," in An Analysis of Alternative Policies for Attaining and Maintaining a Short-term NO2 Standard, (with Wallace E. Oates), A Mathtech report for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Council on Environmental Quality, September, 1979.
Editorials
"Feminist Reconstructions of Economics: They’ve Arrived!," Feminist Economics Vol. 5, No. 3 (November 1999).
"Women’s Reality and Well-Being," Feminist Economics Vol. 5, No. 2 (July 1999).
"Towards a More Accountable Economics," Feminist Economics Vol. 4, No. 2 (Summer 1998).
"Expanding the Methodological Boundaries of Economics," Feminist Economics Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer 1997).
"Power, Voice, and Economic Debate." Feminist Economics Vol. 3, No. 1
(Spring 1997).
"International Diversity in Feminist Economics." Feminist Economics
Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996).
"Critical Exchanges." Feminist Economics Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995).
"Creating a Forum for Feminist Economic Inquiry." Feminist Economics Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995).
Book Review
Review of Julie A. Nelson, Feminism, Objectivity and Economics, London and New York: Routledge 1996, in Journal of Economic Literature Vol. XXXV (December 1997).
Other Work in Progress:
"Theory for a More Activist Economics," manuscript in progress, invited for a conference on "The US and the World Economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, February 2000.
"The Search for Objectivity in Economic Fictions," manuscript in progress.
"Identity Matters: Discovering the Social Rhetoric of Economic Practice," manuscript in process.
"The Naturalization of Privilege: Sexuality and Domesticity in Economic Narratives," manuscript in progress.
Unpublished Manuscripts and Working Papers:
"Feminist Economics: Bounding the Territory," presented at the January 1993 Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California.
"Feminism and Economic Knowledge," presented at the December 1990 American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C.
"Gender Roles, Wage Rates and Monopsonistic Discrimination" (with Peter Hartley), presented at the 1989 American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Gender, Rhetoric, and Economic Theory" (with Karey Harrison), presented at the 1989 Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Orlando, Florida.
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES:
Selected Academic Presentations:
"What Questions Should Feminist Economic Theory Seek to Answer?" (Plenary Panel Address), International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Ottawa, Canada, June 1999.
"Theory for a More Activist Economics," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, New York City, January 1999.
"Feminist Economics" (Plenary Address), Society for Critical Exchange and the University of Exeter, Conference on Culture and Economics, Exetor, England, July 1998.
"Identity Matters: Discovering the Social Rhetoric of Economic Practice," International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
"Feminist Economics," Texas Christian University, February 1998.
"Feminist Thought and Economic Practice," University of Minnesota, January 1998.
"Academic Perceptions," Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 1998.
"Feminist Economic Reflections on Stone Age Economics," Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1997.
"Feminism and Rhetoric: Economic Texts as Social Objects," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Taxco, Mexico, June 1997.
"Identifying Economic Texts as Social Objects; or, Why the Need for a Journal of Feminist Economics?" Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, May 1997.
"Rhetorical Consciousness and the Feminist Subversion of Economics," the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, May 1997.
"The Emergence of Feminist Economics," Feminism Today: A Houston Conference, Rice University, Houston, April 1997.
"Uncovering the Social Character of Economic Knowledge: A Story of Feminist Transgression, Disciplinary Intervention and Theoretical Change," A. K. Rice Institute 13th Biennial Meeting, Houston, April 1997.
"Rhetorical Consciousness and the Subversion of Economic Discourse," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1997.
"Rhetorical Consciousness and the Subversion of Economic Discourse," Speech Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, November 1996.
"What is Feminist Economics?" Vanderbilt University, Nashville, September 1996.
"Can Feminist Thought Improve Economic Inquiry?" Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
"Donald McCloskey and the Rhetoric of Social Science History," Social Science History Association Annual Convention, Chicago, November 1995.
"Out of Order: Women in Economic Discourse," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Tours France, July 1995.
"The Naturalization of Privilege: Sexuality and Domesticity in Economic Narratives," Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge conference, Riverside, March 1995.
"The Naturalization of Privilege: Sexuality and Domesticity in Economic Narratives," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 1995.
"The Search for Objectivity in Economic Fictions," Allied Social Science
Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 1995.
"Constructing Categories of Economic Analysis: Sexual and Domestic
Relationships," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Orlando, November 1994.
"The Naturalization of Privilege: Sexuality and Domesticity in Economic Narratives," Case Western Reserve University, New Economic Criticism conference, Cleveland, October 1994.
"What Can Literary Studies Do for Economics? What Can Economics Do for Literary Studies?" Plenary Panel, Case Western Reserve University, New Economic Criticism conference, Cleveland, October 1994.
"Stories of Power and Objectivity in Economics: The Stakes of the Narrator," Invited speaker, Veblen Society, Chicago, October 1994.
"The Economist as Storyteller: What the Texts Reveal," Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, September 1994.
"Sexuality and Domesticity in the Microfoundations of Economics," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Milwaukee, July 1994.
"Stories of Economics and the Power of the Storyteller," Hollins College, April 1994.
"Conceptions of Economics and the Reproduction of Economists: Hidden Stakes in the Control of Economic Knowledge," Group for Research into the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Knowledge-Production and University of Minnesota conference, "Knowledges: Production, Distribution, Revision," Minneapolis, April 1994.
"The Economist as Storyteller: What the Texts Reveal," The University of Tennessee, March 1994.
"Feminist Thought and Economics; or, What do the Visigoths Know?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Feminist Thought and Economic Knowledge," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"How to Subvert Economics: A Policy Analysis," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 1993.
"Storytellers and Gatekeepers in Economics" (with Livia Polanyi), COSWL Language and Gender Conference, Columbus, Ohio, July 1993.
"Telling and Retelling the Stories of Economics" (with Livia Polanyi), University of Amsterdam International Conference, "Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory," The Netherlands, June 1993.
"The Stories of Economics and the Power of the Storyteller," Boise State University, March 1993.
"Not a Free Market: The Patriarchal Construction of Economic Knowledge," The University of Houston, January 1993.
"The Economist as Storyteller: What the Texts Reveal" (with Livia Polanyi), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California, January 1993.
"Feminist Economics: Bounding the Territory," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, California, January 1993.
"Shifting the Paradigm: Value in Feminist Critiques of Economics" (with Livia Polanyi), International Association for Feminist Economics conference, Washington, D.C., July 1992.
"The Stories of Economics and the Power of the Storyteller," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1992.
"Why Should Economists Pay Attention to Feminist Thought?" The University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire, November 1991.
"A Feminist Perspective on Economic Theory," The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1991.
"Potential Competition in the Airlines," The University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, April 1991.
"Feminism and the Structure of Knowledge in Economics," Midwest Economics Association, St. Louis, April 1991.
"Feminism and Economic Knowledge," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., December 1990.
"Gender Roles, Wage Rates, and Monopsonistic Discrimination," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, December 1989.
"Gender, Rhetoric, and Economic Theory" (with Karey Harrison), Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Orlando, November 1989.
"Occupational Choice and Asymmetric Mobility" (with Peter Hartley), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New York, December 1988.
"Potential Entry in Deregulated Airline Markets," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, San Antonio, November 1988.
"Competition in the Airline Industry," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, December 1987.
"Women and Wages," Rice University, May 1987.
"Potential Competition in the Airline Industry," Economics Department, Rice University, April 1987.
"Dynamic Limit Pricing and Contestable Markets in the Deregulated Airline Industry," University of Houston, April 1986.
Selected Public Presentations:
"Feminist Economics," The Downtown Exchange, Houston, Texas; November, 1997.
"Implications of Economic Theory for Market Behavior," The Investors Group, Houston, Texas; September, 1990.
"Gender and Economic Theory," The Other Economic Summit, Houston, Texas; July, 1990.
"Feminism and Economics," First Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston, Texas; February, 1990.
Other Conference Participation:
Chair, "Publishing in Feminist Economics," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Ottawa, Canada, June 1999.
Respondent, "Community, Gift, and Sacrifice," The Enigma of the Gift and Sacrifice, Rice University, Houston, March 1999.
Moderator, "Implementing Gender Equality," Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meetings, New York City, January 1999.
Discussant, "Feminist Economics: Directions for Disciplinary Transformation," Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meetings, New York City, January 1999.
Panelist, "The Traveling PhD Class in Feminist Economics: Results and Future Directions," International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
Panelist, "Feminism, Philosophy, and Economic Methodology," International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
Panelist, "Ten Principles of Feminist Economics," International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
Moderator, "Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics," International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
Chair, "Feminist Insights into Economic Methodology," Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meetings, Chicago, January 1998.
Discussant, "Globalization in the Houston Context: Facing the New Demographic and Economic Realities," Scientia Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, January 1997.
Chair, "Taking Culture Seriously: Problematizing Choice, Individualism and Gender in the Third World," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1997.
Panelist, "Debating Feminist Postmodernism in Economics," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1997.
Moderator, "Rhetoric, Persuasion and Participation in Feminist E-mail,"
International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., June 1996.
Moderator, "Debating Markets and Beyond," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., June 1996.
Panelist, "Constructive Ambivalence/Wishy-Washy Relativism: Postmodernism and Feminist Economics," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., June 1996.
Discussant, "Feminism, Institutionalism, and Economic Rhetoric," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
Discussant, "Can Feminist Postmodernist Thought Illuminate Economics," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
Panelist, "Can Feminist Thought Improve Economic Inquiry," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
Panelist, "Donald McCloskey and the Rhetoric of Social Science History," Social Science History Association Annual Convention, Chicago, November 1995.
Moderator, "Feminism and the History of Economic Thought," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 1995.
Panelist, "Feminism and Economic Rhetoric," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 1995.
Chair, "Feminist Critique and Method," International Association for Feminist Economics, Tours France, July 1995.
Panelist, "The Exclusion of the Recalicitrant and the Production of Economic Knowledge," International Association For Feminist Economics, Tours France, July 1995.
Chair and Discussant, "Postmodern Economics," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 1995.
Discussant, "What Can Economists Learn from Feminist and Post-Colonial Thought?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings,Washington, D.C., January 1995.
Discussant, "Feminist Perspectives on the Environment," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Orlando, November 1994.
Discussant, "Storytelling in Economics," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
Chair, "Feminist Pedagogy in the Economics Classroom," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 1993.
Chair, "Can Feminist Thought Improve Economic Conversations," Allied Social Science Annual Meetings, Anaheim, January 1993.
Discussant, "Feminism/Postmodernism in Economics," Allied Social Science Annual Meetings, Anaheim, January 1993.
Chair, "What's Happening in the Family," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1992.
Invited participant, Carnegie Mellon Foundation/National Science Foundation Conference "Regulation at the Crossroads: Challenges of the Coming Decade," 1985.
Conference Sessions Organized:
"Feminist Economics: Directions for Disciplinary Transformation," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, New York City, January 1999.
"Implementing Gender Equality," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, New York City, January 1999.
"Feminism, Philosophy, and Economic Methodology," (with Edith Kuiper) International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam, June 1998.
"Norms, Perceptions, and Motivations: Grounding Economic Theories in Gendered Realities" (with Bina Agarwal), Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, January 1998.
"Feminist Insights into Economic Methodology," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, January 1998.
"Debating Feminist Postmodernism in Economics," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January 1997.
"Debating Markets and Beyond," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., June 1996.
"Rhetoric, Persuasion and Participation in Feminist E-mail," International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., June 1996.
"Can Feminist Postmodernist Thought Illuminate Economics?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
"Can Feminist Thought Improve Economic Inquiry?" Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, January 1996.
"Feminism and Economic Rhetoric," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 1995
"Feminism and the History of Economic Thought," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November 1995.
"Caring Labor: Issues for Feminist Inquiry" (with Jean Shackelford), Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 1995.
"What Can Economists Learn from Feminist and Post-Colonial Thought?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 1995.
"How do Economists Know? Perspectives on Feminist Economic Thought" (with Jean Shackelford), Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Feminist Economics: What Difference Does it Make?" (with Jean Shackelford), Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Rethinking Social Policy: Feminist Concerns in the Labor Market" (with Jean Shackelford), Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Can Feminist Thought Improve Economics?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Storytelling in Economics" (with Donald McCloskey), American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, January 1994.
"Anti-Feminism and Tenure: Strategies for Action" (with Jean Shackelford), International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 1993.
"Sexual Harassment in Economics," (with Jean Shackelford and Myra Strober) International Association for Feminist Economics Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 1993.
"Storytelling in Economics," (with Donald McCloskey) American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, January 1993.
"Can Feminist Thought Improve Economic Conversations," (with Arjo Klamer) Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings , Anaheim, January 1993.
"Feminism/Postmodernism in Economics," Allied Social Science Association Annual Meetings, Anaheim, January 1993.
"Feminist Perspectives on Economics," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 1992.
"Feminism and the Boundaries of Economics," American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, January, 1992.
"What's Happening in the Family," (with Robert Pollak) American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans; January, 1992.
"Can Feminism Find a Home in Economics?" American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., December, 1990.
"The Economics Question in Feminism," Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, November, 1990.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reviewing of Manuscripts and Proposals:
Journals:
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Industrial Organization
Review of Social Economics
International Review of Law and Economics
International Journal of Industrial Organization
Journal of Economic Education
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Managerial and Decision Economics
Eastern Economic Journal
Logistics and Transportation Review
Foundations:
National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Book Publishers:
Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY.
Professional Memberships:
AEA Committee on the Status of Women in the Economic Profession
American Association of University Professors
American Economic Association
Institute for Women's Policy Research
International Association for Feminist Economics
National Council for Research on Women
National Women's Studies Association
Society for Women in Philosophy (Midwest)
Professional Service:
Board of Directors, Society for Critical Exchange, 1999- present.
Signs Editorial Advisory Committee, 1999.
Member: IAFFE Membership Committee, 1997 - present.
Member: IAFFE Finance Committee, 1995 - present.
Member: IAFFE Fundraising Committee, 1998 – present.
Member: IAFFE Publications Committee, 1995 - present.
Founding Editor, Feminist Economics. Journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics, 1994 - present.
Scientific Advisory committee for the International Association for Feminist Economics Conference, Amsterdam: Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory, 1998.
Vice President, International Association for Feminist Economics, 1992 - 1997.
Founding Member, International Association for Feminist Economics, 1992.
Program committee for the University of Amsterdam International Conference: Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Theory, 1992 - 1993.
Chair: IAFFE Journal Committee, 1992 - 1994.
Chair: IAFFE Committee on Conferences, 1991 - 1994.
Chair: IAFFE Committee on Organizational Structure, 1991 - 1992.
Correspondent, Southern Economic Journal, 1989 - 1991.
Planning Committee, South Central Women's Studies Association Annual Convention, 1989.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE: (Rice University)
University wide:
Research Council, 1989 - 1992.
Faculty Council, 1987 - 1991.
Faculty Council Committees:
Faculty Compensation Committee, 1987 - 1990; Chair, 1987 - 1989.
Family Leave Committee, 1989 - 1991.
Faculty Elections Committee, 1990 - 1991.
Committee on University Standing Committees, 1990 - 1991.
Steering Committee, Faculty Feminist Reading Group, 1988 - 1991.
Faculty Associate, Baker College, 1985 - present.
Women's Commission Committees:
Salary Task Force, 1987 - 1988.
Steering Committee, 1986 - 1987.
Student Health Committee, 1984 - 1987.
Speaker, Rice University Teacher Center Seminar, 1988.
Audio-Visual Committee, 1985 - 1986.
Shell Faculty Forum, Rice University representative, 1985.
John W. Gardner Award Committee, 1984.
Departmental:
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1983 - 1989.
Undergraduate Advisor, 1983 - 1989.
Faculty Advisor, Omicron Delta Epsilon, 1983 - 1988.
Economic Essay Committee, 1983 - 1986.
Economics 212 Course Coordinator, 1983 - 1984.
Courses Taught: (Rice University)
Rhetoric, Methodology, and Knowledge
Industrial Organization
Industrial Organization
Labor Economics
Senior Independent Research
Principles of Macroeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
The Foundations of Social Science Analysis
Courses Taught: (other than Rice University)
Feminist Economics (University of Minnesota, Spring 1998) Visiting professor in Ford Foundation Funded Traveling Graduate Course in Feminist Economics
Principles of Economics (Harvard University, 1982-1983)
Principles of Economics (Wellesley College, 1982-1983)
Community Service:
Planned Parenthood: Board of Advocates, 1997 - present.
Houston Women's Foundation: Steering Committee on the Status of Women in Houston Project, 1997.
Planned Parenthood: Host Committee, 1995 - 1997.