Educational Background: Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Fields of Research and Teaching Interest: 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: 

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