2025 Pre Conference Speakers 

POLITICS OF PUBLISHING PANELISTS

Nancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College in the United States. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work. In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the author of The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems (Verso, 2021), the editor of For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S. (Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008), and The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The Nation, and the American Prospect. She is a co-curator of, and regular contributor to the Care Talk blog at revaluingcare.org.

Yana Rodgers is a Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.  She also works regularly as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Asian Development Bank.  Yana specializes in using quantitative methods to conduct research on women's health, labor market status, and well-being.  She has also written extensively about LGBTQ inclusion, racial disparities, reproductive justice, and disability. Yana recently served as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, and she was President of the International Association for Feminist Economics.  She currently serves as an Associate Editor with the journals World Development; Feminist Economics; and Gender, Work & Organization. Yana earned her PhD in economics from Harvard University and her BA in economics from Cornell University. 

Laura Beltran-Figueroa is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University and the incoming Policy and Research Director at the Pennsylvania Policy Center. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Utah. Her work spans feminist and labor economics, focusing on labor-market inequalities and the care economy, particularly child-care policy, employee ownership models, and gendered wage outcomes in the United States and Latin America.

Mariel Gruppi is a Young Scholar at IAFFE and a PhD student in Demography at the University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). His research focuses on survey methodology, LGBTQ+ economics and demographics, and public policy, with a critical perspective shaped by his position as a researcher based in the Global South. He also works as a research assistant at a government-affiliated institute in Brazil (Fundação João Pinheiro), contributing to applied studies that support evidence-based policymaking.

Moderated by Professor Anamary Maqueira Linares

Anamary Maqueira Linares holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, United States. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics and Society Stream in the Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Her research areas lie at the intersection of Feminist Political Economy, Labour, Development and Distribution in Global South countries, especially Cuba. She is particularly interested in social reproduction approaches and the care economy. Her current research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the circumstances and processes of state involvement in social reproduction processes and their unequal implications for the distribution of social reproduction costs among the state, the market, families, and communities in Global South contexts.

 

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY  PANELISTS 
Naila Kabeer is Emeritus Professor at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics in the UK and also on the Faculty of its International Inequalities Institute where she directs the Gender Justice and Wellbeing Economy research programme. She has a long track record of teaching, research and advisory work in the fields of gender, poverty, labour markets and social protection, focusing primarily on South and South East Asia. She has been a member of IAFFE for many years, has contributed a number of articles to Feminist Economics, has been on its editorial board and was President of IAFFE in 2018-2019.  Her latest book, ‘Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, agency and the Bangladesh Paradox’ was published in 2024 by LSE Press and is Open Access on its website

Carmen Diana Deere is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics, University of Florida, Emerita Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Distinguished Professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), in Quito, Ecuador. She earned a B.A. in International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder, an M.A. in International Development at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. A feminist economist, her research has focused on gender in Latin American agricultural development and on issues related to women’s property rights and wealthy inequality. Her most recent book is the edited volume ¿Casa Propia? La autonomía económica de las mujeres en Ecuador (A Home of One’s Own? Women’s Economic Autonomy in Ecuador) (FLACSO, 2021) and she is currently completing First-Wave Feminism and Women’s Civil and Political Rights in South America, to be published by Routledge in 2026.

Sarah Small is an assistant professor in the department of economics at the University of Utah and the book review editor for Feminist Economics. She earned her PhD in Economics at Colorado State University in 2022, and recently held positions at Duke and Rutgers universities. Her research focuses on public policy, history of economic thought, methodology, and pedagogy.

Moderated by Professor Ana Laura Jaruf