Diana Louise Strassmann | |
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Education | 1983 PhD Harvard University, Economics 1982 MA Harvard University, Economics 1977 AB Princeton University, Economics 1973 East Lansing High School (East Lansing, Michigan) |
Occupation | Professor of Economics |
Employer | Rice University |
Known for | Feminist economics |
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Spouse(s) | Jeff Smisek |
Diana Strassmann is an American economist, currently Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University, and also co-founder of International Association for Feminist Economics and its journal Feminism Economics.
After graduating from East Lansing High School in East Lansing, Michigan in 1973, Strassmann completed her AB in Economics at Princeton University in 1977, her MA from Harvard University in Economics from in 1982 and her PhD from Harvard in 1983.
Strassman is Director of the Rice University Program on Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities, co-founder of International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and founding editor of the IAFFE journal Feminist Economics which is the Journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), and a co-founder of IAFFE.
In 2011 she co-authored Feminist economics: feminism, economics, and well-being a "major three-volume research collection that demonstrates the breadth and significance of feminist scholarship in economics."