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Updated September 2009

Curriculum Vitae, Colin Danby

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington, Bothell
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Education

  • Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997. Dissertation: "Financial Liberalization in Mexico 1989-1993." Chair:  J. Mohan Rao.
  • B.A. Classics, Dartmouth College, 1981.

 

Faculty Appointments

  • Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of  Washington, Bothell: Assistant Professor 1998-2003, Associate Professor 2003-2009, Professor 2009-
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington, Fall 2008-.
  • Graduate Faculty, University of Washington, 2001-.
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, Fall 2004- Spring 2005.
  • Adjunct Faculty, Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, November 2001-June 2003.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Fall 1997-Spring 1998.
  • Instructor and Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, Spring 1996-Spring 1997.
  • Instructor, Department of Economics, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, Fall 1995.
  • Teaching Assistant and Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989-1992, 1994.

Refereed Articles

  • “Post-Keynesianism without modernity” Cambridge Journal of Economics 33:6 (November 2009).
  • "Political Economy and the Closet: Heteronormativity in Feminist Economics," Feminist Economics. 13:2 (April 2007), 27-53.
  • S. Charusheela and Colin Danby: "A Through-Time Framework for Producer Households." Review of Political Economy 18:1 (January 2006), 29-48.
  • "Noyola’s Institutional Approach to Inflation" Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27:2 (June 2005), 161-178.
  • "Toward a Gendered Post Keynesianism", Feminist Economics 10:3 (November 2004), 55-75.
  • "Lupita's Dress: Care in Time", 2004, Hypatia 19:4 (Fall 2004), 23-46.
  • "Conceptions of Capitalism: Godelier and Keynes" in Values and Valuables: From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series #21), Edited by Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell, Altamira Press, 2004, 67-87.
  • "El auge del consumo en México: una interpretación poskeynesiana" Problemas de Desarrollo 34:131 (October-December 2002), 66-95.
  • "Firms in a Neoliberal Transition: The Case of Mexico 1990-1994" Journal of Economic Issues 36:3  (September 2002), 581-600.
  • "The Curse of the Modern: A Post Keynesian Critique of the Gift|Exchange Dichotomy" Research in Economic Anthropology 21 (2002), 13-42. (Volume title: Social Dimensions in the Economic Process, Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, editors.)
  • "LDCs, Institutions, and Money" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 22:3 (Spring 2000), 407-421.
  • "The Salvadoran Financial Sector: Opportunity and Risk" World Development 23:12 (December 1995), 2133-2152. (Reprinted in James K. Boyce, ed., Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador. 1996, Lynne Rienner.)

 

Papers in Edited Volumes

  • "Contested States, Transnational Subjects: Toward a Post Keynesianism without Modernity" 253-270 in Eiman Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela, eds., Postcolonialism Meets Economics (Routledge, 2004).
  • "Juan F. Noyola Vázquez : regreso al solar de la economía política clásica" 97-115 in Carlos Mallorquín and R. Torres, eds. El Institucionalismo norteamericano y el estructuralismo Latinoamericano: ¿Discursos compatibles en le teoría social comtemporánea? (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2006).  (English version, "Noyola’s Critique of Orthodoxy," available on the website.)

 

Other Publications

  • Review of Miguel Centeno and Patricio Silva, eds., The Politics of Expertise in Latin America in Development and Change Vol. 32, No.  2 (March 2001).
  • Review of J.W. Park's Latin American Underdevelopment in Development and Change Vol. 28, No.  2 (April 1997).
  • "Perspectivas sobre la ayuda de Estados Unidos a Centroamérica en la década de los 90." in Reuben, ed., Cooperación Externa y Desarrollo en Centroamérica de Organismos de Desarrollo. San José, Costa Rica: CECADE. 1990.
  • With coauthors, Changing Course. Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America/Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. 1984.
  • With Richard Swedberg, Honduras Bibliography and Research Guide.  Central America Information Office, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984.
  • The United States and the Salvadoran Elections. Central America Information Office, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983.
  • With coauthors, El Salvador: Background to the Crisis. Central America Information Office, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982.

 

Presentations

  • Roundtable, “Heteronormativity and the State,” June 2009 IAFFE conference, Boston.
  • “How the World Economy was Invented”  FEMMSS conference, University of South Carolina, Charleston, March 2009.
  • “How the World Economy was Invented: The IMF, the Global Scale, and the Voice of Finance.” Portland, sponsored by Portland State University Department of Economics and Portland Center for Public Humanities, March 6, 2009.
  • “Relationality and Care: On Feminist and Post Keynesian Doctrines of Knowledge” June 2008 IAFFE conference, Turin.
  • "Why Fredric Jameson is Like the IMF" Cultural Studies Association, New York, April 2008.
  • "Why Fredric Jameson is Like the IMF" International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.
  • S. Charusheela (presenter) and Colin Danby: “When is the Household?” American Social Science Association meetings, Chicago, January 2007.
  • "The Origins of the ‘Economic’" July 2006 IAFFE conference, Sydney.
  • With S. Charusheela: “Critiques of Modernism: Race, Gender, Citizenship” and “Alternatives to Modernist Analysis” 2006 Interdisciplinary Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian, Institutionalist and Feminist Economics, University of Missouri Kansas City, June 2006
  • "What was Structuralism? Juan Noyola's Institutional Approach to Inflation." Seminar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, August 2005.
  • "From Uncertainty to Structure: Households, Firms, and Social Organization." June 2005 IAFFE conference, Washington, D.C.
  • "Is Household to Market as Primitive is to Modern? The Uncritical Commitments of the Globalization Literature" English Colloquium, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, May 2005.
  • "The Governmentality of Governmentality: National Accounting, Bretton Woods, and the Invention of Economy" Political Science Colloquium, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, April 2005.
  • Roundtable, "Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development" International Studies Association, Honolulu, March 2005
  • "Retheorizing Households: Beyond Heteronormativity." August 2004 IAFFE conference, Oxford.
  • "A Through-Time Framework for Producer Households" (co-authored with S. Charusheela) July 2004 SANHATI workshop, Calcutta.
  • "Recovering a Critical International Political Economy: Juan Noyola and Latin American Structuralism" Political Science Colloquium, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, September 2003.
  • "Elements of a Gendered Post Keynesianism." June 2003 IAFFE conference, Barbados.
  • "Contested States, Transnational Subjects: Toward a Post Keynesianism without Modernity" January 2003 American Social Science Association meetings (HES session), Washington, D.C.
  • "Lupita's Dress: Care in Time." July 2002 IAFFE conference, Los Angeles.
  • "The Curse of the Modern: A Post Keynesian Critique of the Gift|Exchange Dichotomy." Invited presentation for April 2002 Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) conference, Toronto.
  • "The Gender of Money: Households, Care, Time." Women's Studies Colloquium, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, September 2001.
  • "Post Keynesianism without Modernity." July 2001 Association for Heterodox Economics conference, London.
  • "Beyond Gift/Exchange: The Subject in Social Time." Marxism 2000 Gala Conference, Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Amherst.
  • "Out of Bounds: Gift/Exchange as the Gendered Limit of Economy." August 2000 IAFFE conference, Istanbul.
  • "Bad Dichotomies: Time and Material Life." Political Science Department Colloquium, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, March 2000.
  • "Why do Firms Assume Devaluation Risk under Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization?: The Case of Mexico 1989-93." Economics Department Seminar, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, September 1999.
  • "Money in an International Framework." Post Keynesian Thought Electronic Seminar, October 1997
  • With S. Charusheela: “Do Microcredit Programs Help Poor Women?" 1997 American Social Science Association meetings, New Orleans.
  • "A Keynesian Approach to the LDC Balance of Payments." 1996 American Social Science Association meetings, San Francisco
  • "Constructing a Crisis: Mexican Financial Liberalization 1989-1994." March 1995 Eastern Economic Association meeting, New York.
  • "Mexican Financial Liberalization: An Explanation for, and Consequences of, High Deposit-Loan Spreads."  History and Development Workshop. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 1994.
  • "Financial Liberalization in Mexico."  March 1994 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta.
  • "Debt-Equity Swaps and Privatization in Latin America."  History and Development Workshop. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 1992.

 

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Interdisciplinary Inquiry (UWB)
  • American Studies: Americas: Conflict and Connection (UWB)
  • Gender studies: Senior Seminars, "The Gender Structure of Material Life" and "Care" (UWB)
  • Interdisciplinary Political Economy: International Political Economy (UWB), Comparative Economic Development (UWB), Ideas in Political Economy (UWB), Growth and Stability (UWB)
  • Upper-level economics: Money and Banking (Dickinson), Development (Dickinson, SMCM), International (Dickinson), Latin American economies seminar (Earlham, Dickinson, UWB)
  • Introductory economics: Introductory macroeconomics (Dickinson),  Intermediate macroeconomics (U. Mass. and SMCM), Intermediate microeconomics (Earlham), Introduction to Economics (SMCM), Introduction to Global Economy (UWB, CUSP)

 

Service

  • IAS Science Studies search, 2009-10
  • IAS Associate Director, 2008-2009; Associate Director for Undergraduate Education, 2009-10
  • IAS Assessment Committee, 2008, Chair, 2009-
  • GFO Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2008-
  • UWB Education Director Search, 2008-2009
  • IAS Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2007-
  • IAS Science Search, 2005-2006
  • Executive Committee, UWB General Faculty Organization, 2003-2004
  • IAS Personnel Committee, 2003-2004, 2005-2006
  • IAS Director Search Committee, 2002
  • MAPS Admissions Committee, 2002
  • MAPS Coordinator Search Committee, 2001
  • UWB Vision Statement Committee, 2001
  • IAS Goals Subcommittee, 2000
  • IAS Academic Affairs/Curriculum Committee, 2000-2004, Chair, 2005-2007
  • IAS Philosophy Search, 1999-2000
  • UWB Educational Technologist Search, 1999
  • UWB Subcommittee on Strategic Goal Four, 1999
  • GFO Faculty Affairs Committee, 1998-2000
  • IAS  Faculty Affairs Committee, 1998-1999

 

Other Professional Experience

  • Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, El Salvador, 1994-1995.
  • Publications Coordinator, Policy Alternatives for the Caribbean and Central America, Washington, DC, 1986-1991.
  • Research Associate, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington, DC, 1984-1986.
  • Etymologist, Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA, 1981-1984.

 

Memberships: History of Economics Society, International Association for Feminist Economics, Latin American Studies Association, Society for Economic Anthropology.