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Ulla Grapard, Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies; Director of Women's Studies

Contact Information
Mail: 117B East Hall
Office: Women's Studies
Phone: 315 2287157
Email: Ugrapard@colgate.edu

Department Affiliation
Womens Studies

Teaching & Research

Title
Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies; Director of Women's Studies

Degree
BA University of Colorado 1978; MA, PhD Cornell University 1983, 1991

Teaching Experience
Wells College; taught Danish language at Osaka (Japan) University of Foreign Languages

Specialities
Issues of gender in the economy and in the economics curriculum

Interests
Issues of gender in the economics discipline, history of economic thought and economic methodology

Publications

  • "Trading Bodies, Trade in Bodies: The 1878 Paris World Exhibition as Economic Discourse" in Postcolonialism Meets Economics, (Zein-Elabdin, Eiman and S. Charusheela, eds., London: Routledge, 2004);
  • "Feminist Economic Methodology." in The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, (Meg Lewis and Janice Peterson, eds., Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 2000);
  • "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words" in What Do Economists Know? New Economics of Knowledge, New Knowledge of Economics. (Garnett, Jr., Robert F. ed., London: Routledge, 1999);
  • "Theoretical Issues of Gender in the Transition From Socialist Regimes" (Journal of Economic Issues, 1997);
  •  "Feminist Economics: Let Me Count the Ways" in Beyond Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory, ed. Fred Foldvary (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar, 1996);
  • "Robinson Crusoe: The Quintessential Economic Man?" (Feminist Economics, 1995);
  • "The Danish Proposals for Economic Democracy: An Evaluation from the Perspective of the Participatory Model" in Labour Participatory Economy, eds. Mahalingam S., Stephen C. Smith, Jan Erik Askildsen, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (New Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1993); reviews in Journal of Economic Issues, and Feminist Economics

Distinctions
Phi Beta Kappa; U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship