Professor
Office: SSS 473
Phone: (715) 836-4513
E-mail: avinr@uwec.edu
Current Course Information
Women's Studies Oral History Project: Presentation and Profile (leaving Economics Website)
Summer 2013 Class Schedule:
Econ 357.801 Women and Economic Development
Online, 4 weeks, June 10 - July 7
Fall 2013 Class Schedule:
Econ 104.001 Principles of Macroeconomics
TR 2:00-3:15 SSS 312
Econ 104.002 Principles of Macroeconomics
TR 3:30-4:45 SSS 312
Econ 355.001 Economic Development of the Third World
TR 11:00-12:15 SSS 317
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1986
- B.B.A., Baruch College, City University of New York, Summa Cum Laude, 1978
Awards and Honors:
- Excellence in Service Award, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2007
- 2005 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Award entitled "Women in Contemporary India," July 25-August 5, India
- UW System Women of Color in Education Award, April 2005
- 2000 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Award entitled "Brazil 500 Years: Crossing Boundaries from Cabral to the Third Millennium, Brazil, July 8-August 12
- Honorary member of Delta Psi, Spanish Honor Society at UWEC, 1998
- The Morton Wollman Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Study in Economics, Department of Economics, Baruch College, 1976, given to the undergraduate with the highest GPA in economics
Organization Memberships:
- Center for Latin America at UW-Milwaukee
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
- International Association for Feminist Economists (IAFFE)
- Midwest Economics Association (MEA)
- North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA)
- Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN)
Teaching and Research Experiences Abroad:
- Summer 2009, Resident Director, WMNS Study Abroad Program entitled "Women's Lives and Experiences in Nicaragua"
- Sabbatical in Vietnam, 2007 Spring Semester
- January 2005 and March 2008, Guest Lecturer at the Vietnamese National University (VNU) in Hanoi, Vietnam as part of the exchange program that UWEC has with the faculty of Economics at VNU
- Study tours of Nicaragua in 1989-1992, 1996, 1999, 2001
- Resident Director, Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica, Fall 1998
- Sabbatical in Spain, 1993-1994 Academic Year
- Visiting Professor, Technological Institute of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, Summer 1989
Classes Taught:
- Econ 103 - Principles of Microeconomics
- Econ 104 - Principles of Macroeconomics
- Econ 304 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
- Econ 337 - Women and the Labor Market
- Econ 341 - Evolution of Economic Systems
- Econ 351 - International Economics
- Econ 355 - Economic Development
- Econ 356 - Economic Development of Latin America
- Econ/Wmns 357/557 - Women and Economic Development
- Women's Studies 280 - Women and Economics
