Introducing Akira Motomura

<--------------------------------------------------> This is a posting to ECONHIST.TEACH, a list operated by The Cliometric Society (csociety@cs.muohio.edu). <--------------------------------------------------> Since I haven't introduced myself officially yet to the list, let me do that first. I'm now a visitor at Barnard College, Columbia University, after having spent six years at Albion College, another (1650 student) liberal arts college. My research is on 17thc Spanish government, particularly monetary policy, minting, and public finance. I've taught a US economic history course that satisfied an Albion ethnicity requirement, a world economic history course stressing industrialization and technological change, and am now teaching a course on business organization that takes a historical approach. Pamela Nickless and I have written a paper, "Reflections on the Coverage of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in US Economic History Texts." We discuss this coverage both quantitatively and qualitatively, as well as discussing the organization, prefatory intentions and tone of the texts. Generally, we find the six texts reviewed to be much better than economics texts in general in devoting space to these issues, though they could do better in several areas, including nonmarket work and all people of color in the twentieth century. There's also some variation across the texts. We'll present this paper on Thursday, October 13, at 4pm at the SSHA meeting in Atlanta as part of a session on "Tools and Trends in Economic History (I think)." Other contributions to the session should also be of interest to those teaching economic history, especially US. I'll bring some copies of the paper to Atlanta for those interested. If you won't be there, you can ask me privately for a copy (Pamela can also provide you a copy, but I have access to a bigger photocopy budget). We can e-mail the paper, but it's 23 pages double-spaced. Akira Motomura Economics, Barnard College amotomura@barnard.columbia.edu <----------------------------------------------------------> To post a message, send it to ECONHIST.TEACH@cs.muohio.edu. For more information, send the message "info ECONHIST.TEACH" to lists@cs.muohio.edu. >