Rania Antonopoulos is a research scholar at the Levy Institute,
where she initiated a new research program on gender equality and
the economy in 2004–05. Prior to her present position, she
taught economics at New York University for 10 years. She specializes
and teaches courses in feminist economics, international trade and
globalization, and history of economic thought. Since 2002, she
has been a coprincipal investigator and co-coordinator for the “Knowledge
Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics, and
International Economics.” This program is funded by the Ford
Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (Canada),
and its main activity is capacity building among researchers, economists
in government and academia, and Ph.D. students throughout the world.
Her work has been published in Journal of Income Distribution, Review
of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, and Oikonomikos
Tahydromos (in Greek). Her current research focuses on the macroeconomics
of gender-aware, full employment policies and economic modeling,
including unpaid work. Antonopoulos received a Ph.D. in economics
from New School for Social Research, New York. |