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Suzanne Bergeron
Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professor of Women's Studies and Social Sciences
University of Michigan Dearborn
Education/Degree:
1 Economics (University of Notre Dame)
About
Suzanne Bergeron teaches Women's and Gender Studies and Economics at the University of Michigan Dearborn. She has a Ph.D. in Development Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines the ways that economic theories and frameworks get translated into gender equity programs in global South contexts. She has also written about the potentially positive outcomes of social and solidarity economy approaches to gender equity as part of an ongoing United Nations Research Institute for Social Development project. She is also the co-author of one of the leading feminist economics textbooks in the English-speaking world - Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work and Globalization. She serves on the Advisory Boards of the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective and the Rethinking Care Work Network, and is on the International Feminist Journal of Politics editorial board.
Current Work
I have three current research projects in process. The first project aims to bring attention to the role of social and solidarity economies in addressing the care work crisis that COVID 19 threw into such sharp relief. The second project focuses on the ways that COVID has become a catalyst for revaluing the caring labor that takes place within university settings. The third project, with the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective, aims to address questions of citational justice in international political economy.
Research Area Keyword(s)
feminist economics, gender and economic development policy, social and solidarity economies, LGBTQ equity in economic development