Julie Matthaei

Julie Matthaei is Professor of Economics at Wellesley College where she teaches courses in introductory economics, political economy, the history of economic thought and gender and race in U.S. economic history, and feminst 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.

In 1979, along with Wellesley colleague Teresa Amott, Professor Matthaei received a Mellon Award for Faculty Development. She 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 has been published in numerous journals, including the American Economic Review, Eastern Economic Journal, Radical America, Review of Radical Political Economics, Social Concept, Socialist Review, and Science.

At Wellesley, Professor Matthaei has served as Chair of the Economics Department (1984-86), Co-Director of the Women's Studies Program (1980-81), and Chair of the Committee on Extra-Mural Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships (1982-83). Currently, she is a co-chair of the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination.

She is a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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