Resources for Graduate Students

I want to do research with you. How can I get started?

• Great! Let's talk-- please send me an email and share your areas of interest.

• For my own ethical standards, I do not employ research assistants unless I can offer them funding or coauthorship (or both!).

• My funding opportunities for graduate students almost always rely on grants, and I rarely hire student researchers outside the economics department at the University of Utah. 

Which economics organizations are friendly to feminist economists?

• • • International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (check out the young scholars program and join their listserv!)

    • Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP) (Subscribe to their newsletter, join their mentoring program, and check out their research seminars)

    • Union for Radical Political Economy (URPE) (join the Women and Nonbinary Caucus!)

    •  Association for Social Economics (ASE)

    • Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) (Subscribe to their newsletter and check out their support programs for young scholars)

    • Eastern Economic Association (very fun pluralist conference and journal!)

Where can I publish my feminist economics research?

Many mainstream journals will publish “gender economics” but the following will often explicitly publish “feminist economics” work:

• Feminist Economics

• Gender Work and Organization

• Gender and Development 

• Cambridge Journal of Economics

• Review of Black Political Economy

• Review of Political Economy

• Review of Social Economy

• Forum for Social Economics

• World Development

• Review of International Political Economy

• International Review of Applied Economics

• Review of Radical Political Economy

• Journal of Economic Issues

• Review of Keynesian Economics

• Eastern Economic Journal

• Dollars and Sense (more for popular press type works)

What conferences should I attend as a feminist economist?

• International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) annual conference (rotates locations)

• Eastern Economic Association (EEA) annual conference (often in Boston, NYC, DC; large URPE presence)

• International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) annual conference (often in the days before or after the ASSA conference)

•  Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) (this is the ‘big’ economics conference—try submitting to special IAFFE, URPE, or ASE sessions rather than submitting to the broader conference) 

• Gender, Work, and Organization Annual Conference 

• Western States Graduate Student Workshop (with UMKC and CSU)

How can I get a job as an academic feminist economist?

• First, make sure you understand the timeline and expectations for the academic job market.

• Look on Job Openings for Economics (“JOE”) on the AEA website (especially for academic jobs).

• Keep up with the IAFFE member listserv: often has policy-related job postings.

• The Heterodox Economics Newsletter for job postings specific to feminist economists. 

What think tanks frequently house or fund feminist economists?

• Washington Center for Equitable Growth

• Institute for Women's Policy Research

• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

• Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

• International Center for Research on Women 

• International Labor Organization

• UNCTAD

• Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University