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SUSAN GENSEMER 

 

Present Position

Associate Professor

Department of Economics

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY 13244-1020

(315)443-2294

gensemer@maxwell.syr.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984 (Economics)

M.S., Purdue University, 1978 (Economics)

B.A., summa cum laude, Capital University, 1975 (Mathematics)

 

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

 

Referee for Addison Wesley Longman Press, Annals of Operations Research, Blackwell Publishing, D.C. Heath and Co., Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, ORDER, Oxford University Press, Policy Studies Journal, Social Choice and Welfare, and National Science Foundation.

           

Academic Experience

Department of Economics, Syracuse University, 1989-present, Associate Professor; 1983-1989, Assistant Professor: teaching Principles of Microeconomics (Honors), Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (calculus and non-calculus based), Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, Economics and Gender (undergraduate and Masters level), Microeconomic Theory (Masters and Ph.D. level), Mathematical Economics (undergraduate and graduate level), and Probability and Statistics (Ph.D. level).

           

Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, August 1977-August 1980; January 1982-August 1983: Graduate Instructor, Grader, and Research Assistant. Dissertation: An Alternative Measurement Structure: The Positively Ordered Partial Semigroup with Identity. Areas: Microeconomic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Mathematics.

           

Department of Economics, Illinois State University, August 1980-December 1981: Part-time Instructor of Statistics and Mathematical Economics.

           

Departmental and University Activities at Syracuse University  

Advisor for honors economics majors, undergraduate advising; department recruiting committees; graduate theory qualifying examination committee; member of honors, Ph.D., and masters thesis committees; department research evaluation committee, teaching evaluation committee, curriculum restructuring committees, graduate recruitment and studies committees, peer evaluation committees; school grant committee; A&S promotion and tenure committee; A&S curriculum committees; University Senate and its budget subcommittee; women's studies advisory board; participant in Sonia Kovalesky outreach programs; undergraduate economics director (2001-2006); Economics Club Advisor (1998-2006); initiated, co-created, and maintained SU Economics Club website (student.maxwell.syr.edu/uec/) (1999-2006).

           

Research Interests

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

 

Teaching Interests    

Microeconomic Theory (any level); Mathematical Economics (any level); Probability and Statistics (any level); Topics in Uncertainty, Game Theory, or Decision Theory; and Economics and Gender.

 

Publications  

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

           

On an Efficient Algorithm for Voting Sequences (with J.S. Kelly), Mathematical Social Sciences 14 (1987), 59-76.

 

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

 

On Numerical Representations of Semiorders, Mathematical Social Sciences 15 (1988), 277-286.

           

Intransitive Indifference and Incomparability, Economics Letters 26 (1988), 311-314.

 

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

 

On O-Semigroups and O*-Semigroups (with H.J. Weinert), Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica 24 (1989), 295-302.

 

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.

 

Migration Disequilibrium and Specific Division Rules (with L. Hong and J.S. Kelly), Social Choice and Welfare 15 (1998), 201-209.

 

Emilia Jessie Boucherett, in Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, M.A. Dimand, R. Dimand, E. Forget (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000, 12-14.

 

Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, in Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, M.A. Dimand, R. Dimand, E. Forget (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000, 98-100.

 

Susan Myra Kingsbury, in Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, M.A. Dimand, R. Dimand, E. Forget (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000, 236-239.

 

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.

 

Working Papers

  • Embedding a Strongly Associative Partial Groupoid in a Semigroup, 2006.

  • Additive Numerical Representations, 2009. 

  • Early Women Labor Economists.

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

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

  • Nineteenth Century Debates about the Economic Role for Women Question, 2006.

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

  • Profile of an Early American Feminist Economist: The Life of Virginia, 2008, revised September 2009. 

  • Two Early Feminist Economists: Caroline Dall and Virginia Penny, 2009.