Nina Banks

Assoc Prof of Economics

E-mail: nbanks@bucknell.edu
Phone Number: (570)-577-1652
Office: 160 Coleman Hall

Educational Background

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Fields of Research and Teaching Interests

Political Economy, Political Economy of Gender and Race, and Economics of Family Migration

Professor Banks' research analyzes the effects of racial and gendered ideologies on African American migrants in Pittsburgh during the World War I Great Migration era. She is conducting a case study of Mexican immigrants who are self-employed in the Mason-Dixon region. She is also preparing an edited volume of the collected economic speeches and writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the U.S.'s first black woman economist, that focus on economic and political justice.

Recent Activities

Professor Banks serves on the Advisory Committee for the Griot Institute for Africana Studies at Bucknell. She is also part of the Coordinating Committee for the Women's and Gender Studies Program.

Classes

ECON 258, Intermediate Political Economy, ECON 319, Economic History of Women in the U.S., ECON 103, Economics Problems and Principles, ECON 236, Unemployment and Poverty

Selected Publications

"The Black Worker, Economic Justice, and the Speeches of Sadie T.M. Alexander," Review of Social Economy. LXVI (2) June 2008: 139-161.

"Uplifting the Race through Domesticity: Capitalism, African American Migration, and the Household Economy," Feminist Economics. 12(4), October 2006: 599-624.

"Black Women and Racial Advancement: The Economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander." 2005. Review of Black Political Economy. Vol. 33, no. 1, summer 2005: 89-24. (Issued June 2006).