[Photograph of Susan Hunt]

SUSAN B. HUNT

2111 Mt. Vernon St.

 Philadelphia, PA 19130

 E-mail: hunt@ee.upenn.edu

 http://pender.ee.upenn.edu/~hunt/index.html

b: Jan. 27, 1950, Glendale, CA

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Academic Background

Degrees:

             Ph.D. in Economics, American University, Washington, D.C. 2000
             (Political Economy track)
             Dissertation Title: "A General Disequilibrium Benefit/Cost Analysis of Elder Care Facilities in Mexico for U.S. Citizens"
             Major Professor: Dr. Daniel Schydlowsky, Professor of Economics.

Fields of Research Interest:

Fellowships and Honors

American University, Washington, D.C. University of Maine, Orono, ME Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Back to Beginning

Teaching Experience

2000. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. "History, Culture, and Economy of Mali, West Africa."
          "Bamako 2000" Technology for Education Program, Department of Electrical Engineering.
1997. Villanova University, Villanova, PA. "Principles of Macroeconomics."
1984. University of Maine at Augusta: "Toward a History of Scarcity."
1984. University of Maine at Orono: "The Work of Ivan Illich."
1982. University of California at Berkeley. Background seminar to Illich's lectures on Gender.

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Presentations Professional Meetings

1999.
"An Income Determined Family Labor Supply Function, Social Disintegration, and Ethical Issues in Mexico," International Association for Reserach in Economic Psychology (IAREP), 24th Annual Conference, Belgirate, Italy. July 1.

1997.
"What Works to Prevent Environmental Refugees in and from Mexico?" Third Mid-Atlantic Environmental Conference, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Ramapo, NJ. April 19.

1995.
"Does Health Care Cost Containment Affect Men and Women Differently? The Evidence from Maine." Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) annual meeting, Washington, D.C., April 9.

1995.
Discussant for section "Sustainable Human Development: Reconsidering Wealth and Welfare," organized by Sabine O'Hara (RPI), at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Washington, D.C., April 7-9.

1995.
Discussant for section on "Gandhian Economics" organized by Romesh Diwan (RPI) at the ASSA meetings in Washington, D.C., January, 1995.

1994.
Discussant for section "Socio-Economics of the Environment" organized by Romesh Diwan (RPI) at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Paris, France, July 15-17.

1991.
"Alternative Economics: The Other Economic Summit," National Association for Science, Technology, and Society (NASTS) Annual Meeting, Feb. 2, Sheraton Hotel, Washington, D.C.

1990.
"The Ecological Economics of Sustainability," Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), World Bank, Washington, D.C., May 23.

1990.
"Scarcity, Welfare, Utility, and Consumption, a Response to Romesh Diwan's paper, 'A Gandhian Utility Function'," ASSA-AIES Meetings, Dec. 27-29, Washington, D.C.

1989.
Discussant for section titled "Human Economy: A Different Perspective," sponsored by Human Economy Center, at the 15th annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, March 3.

1985.
Oxford University. "Medicine and Economics," Conference on medical ethics co-sponsored by Oxford University and the Hastings Center, New York.

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Other Presentations

1990.
"Introducing The Other Economic Summit" Early Warnings, Conference for the Alternative Press, sponsored by the Utne Reader, March, Minneapolis.

1989.
"Alternative Economics in North America." l'Autre Sommet Economique, Paris, July.

1989.
"The Alternative Economics Movement," Common Ground Fair, sponsored by MOFGA, Maine. September.

1988.
College of the Atlantic. Lecture: "Medical Ethics or Medical Economics?"

1987.
"Steven King and Economics." Northeast Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting.

1987.
WORT, Madison Wisconsin. Hour-long live interview on call-in current-events talk show.

l986 - 7.
TRANET, Rangeley, Maine. Various public discussions under the heading "Towards a New Commons."

1985.
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Gender and Scarcity." Day-long series of seminars.

1983.
"Economic Agnosticism." Pennsylvania State University.

1983.
University of North Dakota. Two-day seminar for faculty on Ivan Illich's Gender.

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Publications

Forthcoming 2001 or 2002.
Profile of African Culture, by Yaya Diallo. Translated from the French by Susan Hunt, Sohrab Rabii, and students from the University of Pennsylvania. Montréal: Intercultural Institute of Montreal.

2001.
Aspects of African Civilization: Person, Culture, Religion, by Amadou Hampâté Bâ. Translated from the French by Susan B. Hunt. Published on the web at http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~rabii/toes/BaAspectsTOC.html.

1997.
"On the Costs of Economic Globalization," A World That Works: Building Blocks for a Justand Sustainable Society, Trent Schroyer, ed. (New York: The Bootstrap Press, TOES Book).

1997.
"The OTHER Economic Summit in Denver in June," Yes! magazine (June).

1995 - 1997.
Contributing Editor, Bulletin of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). Articles include a translation from Spanish of "Saying 'No! to the Golf Course" and "The Silence of Mexico's Academics: The Residents of Tepoztl?n vs. the Golfing Business," by the Regional Forum of Ecologists of the Valley of Mexico; 1:3 (July, 1996); "Economic Globalization: The Social, Ecological, Cultural and Political Costs," 1:1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 19, 31-34.

1989 - 95.
Editor, Newsletter of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). Articles include: "The Halifax Summits: P-7 and G-7," 6:4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 1, 5, 8, 10; reporting on the Halifax "People's Summit" and the G-7 Economic Summit; "Models of Sustainable Development," 5:3 (July, 1994), pp. 1, 3-4, 8-9; report of an international conference at the University Paris I (Sorbonne); "Community: The Neglected Dimension of Ecological Economics," 3:4 (Dec., 1992), pp. 7-9; "Who Is Doing What in Ecological Economics," 2:3 (May, 1991), p. 1; "Economics PhD Programs with a Heart," 2:2 (Dec. 1990), p. 1.

1994.
Edited, with André Joyal, Economics Department, University of Québec at Trois-Rivieres, Community Economic Development: International Environmental Approaches, with chapters by authors in Mexico, Japan, France, Spain, Norway, Québec, Great Britain and the United States, to be published by TOES Books.

1991.
The Voice of the People for a Change: Proceedings of the 1990 TOES (The Other Economic Summit) conference in Houston, July 1990.

1990.
Updated the Dushkin Encyclopedic Dictionary of Economics. Wrote new articles, e.g., Gandhian Economics, E.F. Schumacher, Appropriate Technology.

1989.
"The Alternative Economics Movement," an entire issue of Interculture (Montreal, Intercultural Institute of Montreal, French and English), Jan./Mar. Contains "The Alternative Economics Movement" from the Festschrift for Peter Henriot (infra) and the long version of "In the Beginning Was the Text."

1987.
"Au commencement etait le texte" ("In the Beginning Was the Text"), in: L'ethique: Corps et Ame, edited by Minou Azoulai and Pierre Jouannet (Paris: Editions du Seuil, Autrement no. 93, 1987).

1985.
Alternative Economics or Alternatives to Economics? Co-editor with Daniel Behrman of a collection of essays based on the 1984 Maine Summer Institute. (400 page manuscript).

1984 - 87.
Editor of a regular column in TRANET, "Towards a New Commons".

1983 - 87.
Articles and essays appeared in the Utne Reader, El Gallo Illustrado (Mexico City), World Paper, Maine Times, The Maine Progressive, The Maine Organic Farmer and Gardener, Church World, and Way.

1983.
Women and Development. Proceedings of a conference at the University of California at Berkeley, Fall 1982.

1982.
Reader to Gender. editor. Background readings to Ivan Illich's Gender.

1974 - 83.
Edited H20 and the Waters of Forgetfulness (1987), Gender (1982), and Medical Nemesis (1976) for Ivan Illich.

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Public Service

2000-2001.
Technology for Education Project, School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Created and taught the background course on the "History, Culture and Economy of Mali, West Africa." Accompanied 27 students to Mali for 4 weeks in May/June, 2000, with my husband, a professor of Electrical Engineering. The students installed and networked a computer lab at an NGO in the capital, Bamako, and trained approximately 75 elementary and secondary school teachers how to use computers and the internet as resources in their teaching. They also installed an electrical engineering laboratory with 5 workstations at the Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs, Mali's technological university. In 2001, the program will continue in Mali where 10 Penn students will train university students and others to set up, network, and maintain computer labs, and is being expanded to Ghana, where another 10 Penn students will train students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi to set up, network, and maintain computer labs.

1996 - Present.
In charge of Web Page for The Other Economic Summit/USA, http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~rabii/toes/. Member of the coordinating and program committees for TOES '97.

1995.
Coordinated the TOES-US sections of the "People's Summit" program in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

1990.
Program Coordinator for Day Three, "The Voice of the People," The Other Economic Summit, Houston. 30 sections, 150 speakers. Moderated the Plenary. Organized and moderated two sections, "Religious Perspectives on Economics," with Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Buddhist and Ba'hai speakers, and "Alternatives to Development" with the directors of all the think tanks on cultures and development. Got trade and the environment issues on the agenda.

1989.
Initiated The Other Economic Summit in France, which attracted over 2000 participants and worldwide press-coverage.

1987 - 91.
Founding Director and Communications Coordinator, TOES/NA (The Other Economic Summit/North America) and editor of the TOES/NA Newsletter.

1987 - 8.
Secretary of TOES/NA Coordinating Committee.

1984.
Co-founder and Director of the Maine Summer Institute, a week-long international conference co-sponsored by the Universities of Maine at Augusta and Orono, TRANET, and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners (MOFGA).

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Organizational Affiliations

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