Valuing Us All: Feminist Pedagogy and Economics

Contributors

Contributors April Laskey Aemi has been teaching economics, women's studies, and freshman seminar at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, since 1987. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati and her undergraduate degree from George Washington University. She worked in Washington, DC, at a consulting firm and then for the City of Cincinnati Planning Department, before beginning to teach. She was one ofthe founding members of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and has been investigating, experimenting with, and writing about integrating feminist issues into economic classes since she began teaching. Robin L. Bartlett is the Laura C. Harris Chair and a Professor of Economics at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She has taught Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, and Women in the Labor Force at Denison since 1974. Her research has taken several twists and turns. She has authored articles on the determinants of executive compensation, on the determinants of the earning differentials between men and women, and on the effects of different pedagogical techniques on student learning. Her simulations of the Council of Economic Advisors staff meetings is the signature of her Intermediate Macroeconomics course. Her pedagogical interest has led her to develop the lecture/laboratory curriculum in the Economics Department and to incorporate team learning in all her classes. Currently, she is Chair of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women. Eleanor Brown was born in 1954 and raised in southern California. She received her B.A. degree in economics from Pomona College in 1975 and continued her economics education at Princeton University, receiving her M.A. degree in 1977 and her Ph.D. degree in 1981. Her early work focused on unemployment insurance design and its effects on short-term unemployment . Her current research agenda centers on individual philanthropy in the United States. She has authored several papers on the impact of the federal income tax on charitable activity, including volunteer labor. She has taught at the University of Florida and at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where she lives with her husband and two children. Professor Brown is also a deputy editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and a member of the grant advisory board of the Aspen Institute. 241 Contributors April Laskey Aemi has been teaching economics, women's studies, and freshman seminar at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, since 1987. She received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Cincinnati and her undergraduate degree from George Washington University. She worked in Washington, DC, at a consulting firm and then for the City of Cincinnati Planning Department, before beginning to teach. She was one ofthe founding members of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and has been investigating, experimenting with, and writing about integrating feminist issues into economic classes since she began teaching. Robin 1. Bartlett is the Laura C. Harris Chair and a Professor of Economics at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She has taught Intermediate Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, and Women in the Labor Force at Denison since 1974. Her research has taken several twists and turns. She has authored articles on the determinants of executive compensation, on the determinants of the earning differentials between men and women, and on the effects of different pedagogical techniques on student learning. Her simulations of the Council of Economic Advisors staff meetings is the signature of her Intermediate Macroeconomics course. Her pedagogical interest has led her to develop the lecture/laboratory curriculum in the Economics Department and to incorporate team learning in all her classes. Currently, she is Chair of the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women. Eleanor Brown was born in 1954 and raised in southern California. She received her B.A. degree in economics from Pomona College in 1975 and continued her economics education at Princeton University, receiving her M.A. degree in 1977 and her Ph.D. degree in 1981. Her early work focused on unemployment insurance design and its effects on short-term unemployment . Her current research agenda centers on individual philanthropy in the United States. She has authored several papers on the impact of the federal income tax on charitable activity, including volunteer labor. She has taught at the University of Florida and at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where she lives with her husband and two children. Professor Brown...