Promoting Economic Growth
National Economic Association
NewsLetter - March 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.
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