National Economic Association

NewsLetter - January 2002

It's Official

Lashawn Richburg Hayes is the recipient of the 2002 Rhonda M. Williams Doctoral Dissertation Award.  Dr. Richburg Hayes earned her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2000.  The title of her dissertation is "Do the Poor Pay More for Food? Three Essays of the Existence of a Poor Price Differential."  Her principal thesis advisor was Professor Cecilia Rouse.  Dr. Richburg Hayes is currently a Research Associate at the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

This dissertation award was named to honor Dr. Rhonda M. Williams after her untimely death in November 2000. Dr. Rhonda Williams was a brilliant scholar and amazing teacher. Her field was labor economics and she was the Chair of the Afro American Studies Department at the University of Maryland at College Park. She fought actively for social justice and an end to oppressions of all kinds, especially oppression based on race, class, sexual orientation, or gender.  

Election results were announced at the NEA business meeting in Atlanta, Saturday, January 5, 2002.  Congratulations to the new NEA officers.

President-Elect:  

William M. Rodgers, III (The College of William and Mary)

Board:  

Djeto D. Assané (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Debby Ann Lindsey (Howard University)

Michael A. Stoll (UCLA)

Romie Tribble, Jr. (Spelman College)

 

2003 Call for Papers

The National Economic Association (NEA) will hold its annual meeting in Washington, DC, January 3-5, 2003 in conjunction with the meetings of the Allied Social Science Association. We are making a call for individuals that are interested in giving papers, organizing sessions or making suggestions for the program.  Click here for more information.

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