Professor of Economics
Economics, CBA 349P.O. Box 880489
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3369
Fax: (402) 472-9700
E-mail:
Expertise:
- Feminist Economics
- U.S. Economic History
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Women and Higher Education
Education:
B.A., Colorado State 1980, Political ScienceM.S., Colorado State 1983, Economics
Ph.D., Colorado State University 1988, Economics
Research Interests:
Women and Education, Feminist Economics, Political Business Cycles, and Post-war Macroeconomic PolicyTeaching Interests:
Women's Economic History, Feminist Economics, and 19th and 20th Century U.S. Economic HistoryPublished in the following:
Feminist Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic History, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economic Issues, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Great Plains Quarterly, ChallengeAwards:
Feminist of the Year, Spring 2007, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VTAcademy of Distinguished Teachers, 1997-98 to present.
Nebraska Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1998-99.
Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, (OTICA) System-wide Teaching Award, 1997-98.
University Distinguished Teaching Award, UNL, 1991-92.
Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Business Administration, UNL, 1989-90.
Outstanding Contribution to Students Award, 1989-90, 1997-98, 1998-99.
Stuart Leadership Foundation Innovative Teaching Award, Spring 1992-93.
UNL "Best Professors" in Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book, 1992.
Documents & Links
Books and Edited Volumes:
Research
Selected Articles:
- The Feminist Challenge to Economics
- 'Sweeping the Heavens for a Comet': the Language of Political Economy, and Higher Education in the US
- The Presidential Political Business Cycle of 1972
- The Presidential Political Business Cycle: An Instituional Critique and Reconstruction
- Contemporary Philosophy of Science and Neoinstitutional Thought
- President Eisenhower, Economic Policy, and the 1960 Presidential Election
- Class Conflict, Corporate Power, and Macroeconomic Policy: The Impact of Inflation in the Postwar Period
- Caste, Class, and Social Change: An Institutionalist Perspective
- Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy and the Carter Presidency
- Women, Economics, and the Concept of the Market: A Second Look at Reaganomics
- Women and the Great Retrenchment: The Political Economy of Gender in the 1980s
- Occupational Segregation of Women on the Great Plains
- On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession
- Gender and the Political Economy of Knowledge
- Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy
- Representation of Women Faculty at the Public Research University: Do Unions Matter?
Books & Book Chapters:
Book Chapters:
- "Gender and the Political Economy of Knowledge," in Frontiers in the Economics of Gender
- "Dwight David Eisenhower" in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
- "Women and the Higher Learning in America: Veblenian Insights Into the Leisure of the Theory Class," in "Thorstein Veblen in the Twenty-First Century
- "The Challenge of Feminist Economics" in Political Economy for the Next Century
- "Economic Myth and Economic Reality: A reexamination of the Carter Years"
- "President Eisenhower, Economic Policy, and the 1960 Presidential Election," Reprinted in Business and Government in America Since 1870
- "President Nixon's Political Business Cycle" in Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator
- "Gender, Biology, and the Incontrovertible Logic of Choice," in 'The Woman Question and Higher Education': Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America
