Julie Matthaei is Professor of Economics at Wellesley College
where she teaches courses in introductory microeconomics, the political
economy of gender, race, and class, and feminist economics. Prior to joining the
Wellesley faculty in 1978, she taught at Yale University and
Quinnipiac College.
Professor Matthaei attended Stanford University and received a
Diplome d'Etudes Economiques Generales from the University of
Paris (1973), a B.A. from the University of Michigan (1974) and an
M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1978) from Yale University.
Julie is
the author of An Economic History of Women in America: Women's
Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of
Capitalism (Schocken Books, 1982), which was selected as an
"Outstanding Academic Book, 1983" by Choice Magazine. With Teresa
Amott, she is also the author of Race, Gender and Work: A
Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States
(South End Press, 1991; revised edition, 1996). She co-edited (with Jenna Allard '07 and Carl Davidson), Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet (Changemaker Publishing, 2008). She has been
published in numerous journals, including the American Economic
Review, Eastern Economic Journal, Radical America, Review of
Radical Political Economics, Feminist Economics, Social Concept, Socialist Review,
and Science, as well as in popular journals such as Adbusters and Dollars & Sense.
At Wellesley, Professor Matthaei has served as Chair of the
Economics Department (1984-86), Co-Director of the Women's Studies
Program (1980-81), Chair of the Committee on Extra-Mural
Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships (1982-83), and Co-Chair of the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination (1997-1999). Currently, she serves on the Committee for Minority Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention.
Since 2007, Julie has been researching and organizing the solidarity economy in the U.S. She has co-planned sessions at the U.S. Social Forum (Atlanta, June 2007), and the Forum on the Solidarity Economy (Amherst, March 2009), and is co-founder and board member of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (www.ussen.org).
She has one daughter, Ella; is married to Germai Medhanie; has three cats; and lives in Cornerstone Cohousing in Cambridge, Massachusetts.