Providence

FRIDAY SESSIONS
Friday
Representations: African American Women’s
Leadership, Personal and Political
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of African American,
Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and
ALANA Histories and the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the
Historical Profession
#oah16_151
Chair and Commentator: Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University
“Hooray for Women, But I’m Not a Feminist!” Constance Baker Motley
and the Double Bind of Women’s Leadership, 1945–1970
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard University
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy and Black Feminist Leadership in the
Reproductive Rights Battle, 1969–1971
Sherie Randolph, University of Michigan
“We Have a Chance to Pioneer”: Leadership and Race, Feminism and
Law in the Transformation of the American Family, 1965–1980
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania
PLENARY SESSION
Friday, April 8, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Can We Use History?
#OAH_Krugman
Presenter:
• Paul Krugman, CUNY Graduate Center;
Luxembourg Income Study Center;
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
University
Discussants:
• Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
• Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis
These are glory days for economic historians. Those who knew
their economic history were far more successful at tracking and
predicting events since the global financial crisis than those who
didn't. Yet policy makers have repeatedly ignored the lessons of
history. Can this ever change?
Paul Krugman holds two titles at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center,
distinguished professor in the Economics Ph.D. program and
distinguished scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center. In
addition, he is Professor Emeritus of Princeton University's Woodrow
Wilson School. He is best known to the general public as Op-Ed
columnist for The New York Times, a position he's held since 2000.
In 2008 Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade
theory. In 2011, Time magazine ranked his New York Times blog,
"The Conscience of a Liberal," as number one in their listing of
"The 25 Best Financial Blogs."
In addition to winning the Nobel, Krugman is the recipient of
Photo Credit: Fred R. Conrad, The New York Times
John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association,
an award given every two years to a top economist under the age of
40. He also received the Asturias Award given by the King of Spain,
considered to be the European Pulitzer Prize.
Author or editor of more than 25 books and over 200 published
professional articles, Krugman has written extensively for noneconomists
as well. Before joining the staff of The New York Times,
his work appeared in Fortune, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic
and Newsweek.
Krugman's approach to economics is reaching a new generation
of college students. He and Robin Wells have coauthored college
textbooks on micro and macroeconomics that rank among the topselling
economics textbooks used in American colleges today.
Krugman has served on the faculties of MIT, Yale and Stanford. He
is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a member of the Group
of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund, the United Nations, as well as to foreign countries including
Portugal and the Philippines. In his twenties, he served as senior
international economist for the President's Council of Economic
Advisers under Ronald Reagan.
He is a regular contributor to ABC-TV's This Week with George
Stephanopoulos and makes frequent appearances on Charlie Rose,
PBS NewsHour, Bloomberg Television, NPR and MSNBC.
Krugman's four recent trade books, End This Depression Now!,
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, The
Conscience of a Liberal and The Great Unraveling became New York
Times bestsellers.
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