Westerburger Wald, Germany, 2002 (MSH)
Quick Facts
B.S. Economics, University of Utah, 2001
B.A. Political Science, University of Utah, 2002
Certificate in International Relations, University of Utah, 2002
M.A. Economics, University of Utah, Est. December 2004
I am currently pursuing a graduate degree in Economics at the University of Utah. My main area of interest is development/gender economics; specifically, how to maximize the human development potential of a "developing" economy within the constraints imposed by globalization. My thesis research centers on the effect that human capital investment in girls has on flattening a country's Kuznet curve of income inequality.
When I'm not working on my thesis I work as a research assistant for the Economic and Statistical Unit of the Utah State Tax Commission. In this capacity I help prepare reports and do research on all manner of tax issues among other things.
I also work for the College of Social Work as a Staff Specialist. Without the support I've received from the amazing people at CSW my studies would not be possible. Their search to find me financial aid has truly been amazing! I can only hope that my work, academic and otherwise, will have a return commensurate with the investment I've received. Thanks!
In addition, there is a long list of people who have made my life possible. Without them I would never had made it this far. Thank you -- you know who you are!
B.A. Political Science, University of Utah, 2002
Certificate in International Relations, University of Utah, 2002
M.A. Economics, University of Utah, Est. December 2004
I am currently pursuing a graduate degree in Economics at the University of Utah. My main area of interest is development/gender economics; specifically, how to maximize the human development potential of a "developing" economy within the constraints imposed by globalization. My thesis research centers on the effect that human capital investment in girls has on flattening a country's Kuznet curve of income inequality.
When I'm not working on my thesis I work as a research assistant for the Economic and Statistical Unit of the Utah State Tax Commission. In this capacity I help prepare reports and do research on all manner of tax issues among other things.
I also work for the College of Social Work as a Staff Specialist. Without the support I've received from the amazing people at CSW my studies would not be possible. Their search to find me financial aid has truly been amazing! I can only hope that my work, academic and otherwise, will have a return commensurate with the investment I've received. Thanks!
In addition, there is a long list of people who have made my life possible. Without them I would never had made it this far. Thank you -- you know who you are!
Contact
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Research Interests
Sovereignty / International Relations Structural Questions
Community Issues (Civil Society)
Communal Violence
Third World Development Issues
The Economics of Trade
Roman History
Historical changes of Demographics
Particle Physics (SQN, Neutrino detection)
Astrophysics
Community Issues (Civil Society)
Communal Violence
Third World Development Issues
The Economics of Trade
Roman History
Historical changes of Demographics
Particle Physics (SQN, Neutrino detection)
Astrophysics
Current Reading
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, Ibn Khaldun, Abridged
Princeton Paperback
version.
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson, 1997
Recent Reading
The Worldly Philosophers: the lives, times, and ideas of the great
economic thinkers, Robert L. Heilbroner, 1999
Timeline, Michael Crichton, 1999
"Two Seismic Events with the Properties for the Passage of Strange Quark Matter Through the Earth", Anderson, Herrin,
Teplitz, and Tibuleac
Chapter III, "Provincia Dacia Augusti: 165 years of Roman rule on the left bank of the Danube.",
Dacians-Romans-Romanians, Gabor Vekony, 2000
Like Crichton's other books, Timeline reads like a screenplay. As
such, the reader has to really suspend their sense of
disbelief at times to enjoy this book. It isn't all bad
though:
fanciful
physics aside, this book includes a surprising amount of historical
details -- and even sports an academic bibliography!
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution and Retribution from the Ottoman
Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Andre Gerolymatos, 2002
An interesting though not quite fufilling book.
A few notes:
1.) Communal violence in the Balkans is a long seated problem. Violence by one group against another creates the justification for future revenge and the circle of violence continues.
2.) Ottoman authorities only recognized religion in the macro sense -- i.e. all Christians were lumped together, all Muslims together -- in seperating their subject people. (These were the millets.)
3.) By not differentiating by nationality the Ottomans -- inadvertantly -- created the heterogenous communities which were so prone to violence in the 1990s.
4.) Because of (3) groups like the Bulgars, Serbs, and Romanians did not respond to nationalistic calls for unity until much later (forestalling real independence/statehood.)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume VI, Edward Gibbon
A few notes:
1.) Communal violence in the Balkans is a long seated problem. Violence by one group against another creates the justification for future revenge and the circle of violence continues.
2.) Ottoman authorities only recognized religion in the macro sense -- i.e. all Christians were lumped together, all Muslims together -- in seperating their subject people. (These were the millets.)
3.) By not differentiating by nationality the Ottomans -- inadvertantly -- created the heterogenous communities which were so prone to violence in the 1990s.
4.) Because of (3) groups like the Bulgars, Serbs, and Romanians did not respond to nationalistic calls for unity until much later (forestalling real independence/statehood.)
FINISHED! Six volumes in nine
months. Gibbon redeems himself in the last of six
volumes.
Too Late the Phalarope, Alan Paton, 1953
A beautiful and tragic story about love, desire, and
passion set in apartheid South Africa.
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1947
Ellison paints in stark colors the consequences of bigotry
on both the victim and the perpetrator.
"Importing
Equality? The
Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination", Black and Brainerd
One of the most fascinating periods of Roman History, the conquest
and colonization of Dacia (Romania) by Trajan in the early 2nd century CE
is still quite a mystery. According to the few contemporary sources that
are still extant, the native Dacian population was decimated by, what can
only be described as, a campaign of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the
victorious Romans. Within a few years of completing the conquest of Dacia
the new territory was "full" of Roman citizens transplanted from elsewhere
in the Empire. Were the Dacians completely removed, or, were they
subsumed by the flood of Roman citizens? [...]
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
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