ABRIDGED RESUME

Susan H. Gensemer

Fellowships and Honors

At Syracuse University: Outstanding Economics Department Graduate Instructor, 1994; Outstanding Economics Department Undergraduate Instructor, 1999.

At Purdue University: University Fellowship, 1977-78 and 1978-79; David Ross Thesis Grant, 1980-81.

At Capital University: Class Scholarship, 1972-73; Karl, Herman, John Maul Scholarship, 1974-75; S.A. Singer Prize for Outstanding Proficiency in Mathematics; Kappa Alpha Pi.

Professional Activities

Member of American Economic Association, Econometric Society, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, AEA-CSWEP, International Association for Feminist Economics, and Mathematical Association of America.          

Academic Teaching Experience

Department of Economics, Syracuse University, 1989-present, Associate Professor; 1983-1989, Assistant Professor: teaching Microeconomic Theory (all levels), Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Economics and Gender (all levels), Mathematical Economics (all levels), and Probability and Statistics (Ph.D. level).

Departmental and University Activities at Syracuse University               

Advisor for economics majors, including honors; recruiting committees; graduate theory comprehensive committees; honors, masters, and Ph.D. thesis committees; department research evaluation, teaching evaluation, and curriculum restructuring committees; graduate recruitment and studies committee; peer evaluation committees; school grant committee; developed BS in economics; A&S promotion and tenure committee; A&S curriculum committees; University Senate and its budget subcommittee; women's studies advisory board; undergraduate economics director (2001-2006); Economics club advisor, webpage developer and maintainer.

Research Interests

Decision Theory; Applications of Abstract Algebra in Economics; Economics and Gender; Early Women Economists; Virginia Penny.

Selected Publications        

On Relationships between Numerical Representations of Interval Orders and Semiorders, Journal of Economic Theory 43 (1987), 157-169.

Continuous Semiorder Representations, Journal of Mathematical Economics 16 (1987), 275-289.

On the Embedding of Partial Groupoids into Semigroups (with H.J. Weinert), Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften 28 (1989), 139-163.

Revealed Preference and Intransitive Indifference, Journal of Economic Theory 54 (1991), 98-105.

Division Rules and Migration Equilibria (with L. Hong and J.S. Kelly), Journal of Economic Theory 69 (1996), 104-117.

Virginia Penny, in Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, M.A. Dimand, R. Dimand, E. Forget (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000, 330-333.

Alliances and Cost Declaration (with K. Kanagaretnam), Management and Decision Economics 25 (2004), 121-136.

On Embedding Ordered Partial Groupoids into Partially Ordered Semigroups, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 42 (2007), 377-382.

Virginia Penny, American National Biography, Apr 2010.

Positive Additive Representations, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 64 (2010), 239-51.

Partial Groupoid Embeddings in Semigroups, to appear.

Selected Working Papers

Embedding a Strongly Associative Partial Groupoid in a Semigroup.

Early Women Labor Economists.

Early Women Economists on Ideal Family Design, with S. McCoskey, revised.

Nineteenth Century Women’s Views on Women’s Labor Market Opportunities and Corrective Policies: Affirmative Action and Equal Pay for Equal Work, 2005.

Whatever Happened to the Demand for Women’s Working Rights? 2007

Profile of an Early American Feminist Economist: The Life of Virginia, revised 2009.