Eiman O Zein-Elabdin Professor of Economics
Eiman Zein-Elabdin
PhD, Economics, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN
BSC, Economics, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Research
Economic Developlement, Postcolonial Thought, Political Economy of Africa, Gender and Economics, Culture and Economics, Institutional Economics
Select Publications
Economics, Culture and Development, London: Routledge (Frontiers of Political Economy), 2016
鈥淧ostcoloniality and Development: Development as a Colonial Discourse,鈥� in Dimensions of African Development: Theory and Practice, Lansana Keita (ed.), Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2011.
鈥淓conomics, Postcolonial Theory, and the Problem of Culture: Institutional Analysis and Hybridity,鈥� Cambridge Journal of Economics, 33 (6): 1153-1167, November, 2009.
Postcolonialism Meets Economics (co-edited with S. Charusheela), London: Routledge (Economics as Social Theory series), 2004.
鈥淭he Difficulty of a Feminist Economics,鈥� in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper (eds.), Routledge, 2003. (Reprinted in Feminist Economics, Lourdes Beneria, Ann Mari May, and Diana Strassmann (eds.), Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009).
Course Information
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Political Economy of Africa (ECO281)
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Economic Development (ECO335)
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Women, Culture, and Development (ECO282)
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Postcolonial Perspectives on Development (ECO381)
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Introduction to Economic Perspectives (ECO103)
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Value and Distribution (ECO203)
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Africa: the Idea/the Place (Connections 2 Course)
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African Americans in the US Economy
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Inequality, Power, and Social Justice