Laurie Nisonoff

Biography
Laurie Nisonoff, professor of economics, holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.Phil. from Yale University, where she was a doctoral candidate. She began teaching at Hampshire College in 1974. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship in women's studies, and in 1993-94 a fellow of the Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center. She has been an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics, editing a special issue on "Women in the International Economy" and another in Urban Political Economy. She is a co-editor of The Women, Gender and Development Reader (ZED 1997) and the recent second edition (ZED, 2011). Her teaching and research interests include women and economic development, U.S. labor and economic history, women's studies, labor and community studies, and public policy issues.

Courses

 * Third World, Second Sex: Does Economic Development Enrich or Impoverish Women's Lives
 * Controversies in U.S. Economics and Social History

Current Projects
Laurie is a member of the Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics(URPE). She serves as the clerk which means she handles the finances, supervises the national office located in Gordon Hall at the University, and arranges local services.

Laurie is also the co-chair, with Professor Fred Moseley (Econ, MHC), of the URPE at ASSA conference program each year at the annual economics convention. They took over this responsibility in 2007 and are committed to creating the sixteen panels for each winter for the next few years.

Community Involvement
Laurie is completing two three year terms on the Amherst Cultural Council (2006-12) which distributes state arts funding monies to local arts and humanities projects and to the schools.

She serves on the board of the local Hampshire Shakespeare Company which recently moved its outdoor summer productions from the Hartsbrook School to the UMass Renaissance Center.

Laurie serves as an Educational Counselor for MIT. She interviews high school seniors from Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties for possible admission to the Institute.

Office Hours:
Spring Semester 2012 Tues/Thurs afternoons and Wed early afternoons.

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Tues Feb 7

N Sirjana

1 Chris S with HS

130 Asher

330 faculty mtg

Wed Feb 8

1230 Kevin Katz

1-2 Ella Wind, with OD

Thurs Feb 9

N-1245 Maggie D with PS

1245-125 Ellyn G

130 candidate

2 Sarah Roberts with MB

230 Sophie K

330 candidate talk

Tues Feb 14

12-1 Tutorial Faculty lunch

1

130

2 candidate

245Xi Zhou

330 candidate talk

Wed Feb 15

1200 shea scs11

1230 sophia svp11

100 sophie k sfk11

130 Mary Goldman mjg10

200

230 Jay H with KH

Thurs Feb 16 EXAM/ADVISING DAY

1000

1030 rachel c rkc11

1100 kevin k with MR

1130 ellyn g with MR

N Maggie with PS

1245 chris f.. then go to helen

100 karan kmt11

130 Holly/Phuong with OD

200 Sarah with MB

230 Alvaro with ME

300 Sirjana sis11

330 School Mtg

Tues Feb 21

N -1 Asher

1-2 Chris F with HS

200 - 240 Ella Wind w OD

240 Xi Zhou

310

Wed Feb 22

1200 akhanda

1230 sirjana

100 kevin k kak09

130

200

230 Jay with KH

Thurs Feb 23

noon Maggie D with PS

1245

120-2 Holly/Phuong with OD

2 Sarah R with MB

230 Sam R with OD and MK

300

330 School Mtg

Tues Feb 28

100 Christopher F with HS

Wed Feb 29 class.. papers due

Thurs March 1 OCCUPY HAMPSHIRE

Tuesday March 6

100 Shelley R..

120 -2 discussion re fellow

2-240 Ella Wind with OD

240

330 Faculty Meeting

Wednesday March 7

class9-1150

noon Sarah sm09

1230 Karan Thakker Kmt

100 Kevin Katz

130

200

230 Jay H with KH

Thursday March 8

12

1240 Christopher F with HS

120 Holly with OD

200 Sarah R with MB

230

300

400 Eqbal Ahmad lecture

Friday March 9

10-12 seminar

1215 Maggie with PS

4 and 6 Feminist Studies Book Event at MHC

Tuesday March 13

12 Asher ald10

100 Kate/Computer

200-240 Ella with OD

240-310

Wednesday March 14

class 9-1150

1150 Jasmine H.

1210 Elizabeth

1230 Emily W.

100 Shea S.

130

200

230 Jay H with KH

Thursday March 15

1130 Brynn Seely

1200 Maggie D with PS

1240 Christopher F with HS

120 Phuong with OD

200 Sarah R with MB

230

300 Ben Volvovitz Bjv10

330 CSI Mtg..J.Lash/searches

SPRING BREAK!!!

Tuesday March 27

12 Asher

100 sarah m with KJ

130 Brynn Seely

200-240 Ella W with OD

Wednesday March 28

9-1150 Class Trip to Archive

100 Kevin K

130

200 Sam Reeves

230 Jay H with KH

Thursday March 29

1200 Maggie D with PS

1240 Christopher F with HS

120 Holly with OD

200 Sarah R with MB

245 Ellyn with MR

330 School Mtg- reappointments

Friday March 30 --PRELIMINARY DIV 2 AND 3 DUE

but i will be out of town for a planning mtg for URPE/OCCUPY

JOINT SUMMER CONFERENCE

Monday April 2

4 DOF presentation

530 Reception

Tuesday April 3

noon - 130 Tutorial Faculty Lunch

130 - 200

200 -230 Kevin Katz

230-300 Megan Meo, memm09

Faculty Mtg

Wednesday April 4

EXAM/ADVISING DAY - NO CLASS BUT RANDY ALBELDA INSTEAD

1100 Sophie Kriegel

1130 Sophia Philip

noon Alvaro Ortiz-Palacios

1230 Sirjana

100 Akhanda

130 Karan Thakker

200 Rachel Campbell

230-300 Jay with KH

300 Shea

330 Xi and Kay

400 ---

430 Randy Albelda Talk

Thursday April 5

noon-1240 Maggie w PS

1240-120 Christopher w HS

120-200 Holly w OD

200-300 Sarah R w MB

330-8 CSI School Retreat

Happy Easter/Have a lovely Passover

Tuesday April 10

noon-1 Asher

100 Sam R. str10

200-230

230-310Xi Zhou xz10

4 DOF Presentation

530 DOF Reception

Wednesday April 11

9-noon Class

noon lunch with quincy saul

1230ditto

100-140 holly with OD

140-220 ella with OD

230 -330 Jay with KH

Thursday April 12

noon-1240 Maggie with PS

1240-120 Christopher with HS

120-200

200-240 Sarah R with MB

240-310

Friday April 13

Retirement Events for Sara Lennox

Monday April 16

Eric Schocket Lecture by Andrew Ross

Tuesday April 17

200 Ella with OD

240

310

400 DOF

530 Reception

Wednesday April 18

9-noon Class

noon tutorial advisees lunch

1230ditto

100ditto

130Phuong Le Ha with OD

200 ditto

230-315 Jay with KH

go to MHC for 415 talk

Thursday April 19

noon Maggie

1240 Christopher

120

200 Sarah R

330 CSI Meeting

friday april 20 mgh

Monday April 23

cpa -- am

230-520 Judy Bornstein at

HS's course

dinner with Judy B

Tuesday April 24

noon-1 asher

100 christopher with HS

130 ditto

200-300 economists meeting

300-330

4 DOF presentation

530 Reception

Wedesday April 25

9-noon class

noon Maggie D with PS

100

130-230 Holly with OD

230 - 330 Jay H w KH -- trailer

Thursday April 26

Friday April 27

inauguration

Monday April 30

mtg at MHC 5CWSRC 1115-1230

Tuesday May 1

9-10 Jay H d3 final mtg with KH

10-11 Maggie D d3 final mtg with PS

opening if holly wants it ..

1200-1245? Karan Thakker, div 1

100 Jasmine Haddad

2-240 Ella with OD

Wednesday May 2

9-noon LAST CLASS

1-2 Holly d3 final mtg with OD

Thursday May 3

10-11 Sarah R d3 final mtg with MB and Lowell G

1100-1145 Jaime H. div2 final mtg with SR

1230-130 Christopher F d3 final mtg with HS

Friday May 4--

1230-1 alvaro re advising, div 2

115-215 Ellyn G d2 final mtg with MR

215- 145 kevin k re advising, div 2

Monday May 7 -- course completion form due

11-12 Sam R d2 final mtg with OD and MK

12 15- 1 15 Asher's final meeting

1-145 Shea final div 1 mtg

145 jaime h re div 3

Tuesday May 8 -- d1 portfolios due

[hand work to Emily Gallivan -- I will be in Boston].

Wednesday May 9

noon MHC srs grades due

Friday May 11(these are reserved for tutorial students)

noon to 1245 Rachel Campbell

1245 to 130 Sophie Kriegel

130 to 215 Sophia Philip

215 to 3 Sirjana Shakya

Monday May 14 -- D3 evals due and other grades due

Tuesday May 15 --

1-2 Sam R final d2 with OD and MK

div 1 final meeting for akhanda at some point this week when his finals are over

330 faculty meeting

Wednesday May 16 -- back in Boston

Thursday May 17

330 Stephanie party

Saturday May 19 -- graduation