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Cecilia
Conrad Named Associate Dean at Pomona College
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Cecilia Conrad has been named an associate dean of Pomona
College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts colleges.
During her three-year term, from 2004 to 2007, her
responsibilities include managing internal grant funds,
helping faculty obtain external grants, space planning and
serving as liaison to Campus Planning.
A member of the Pomona College faculty since 1995, Conrad is
the Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona and
teaches courses on Applied Regression Analysis, Race and the
U.S. Economy, Poverty and the Distribution of Income, Urban
Economics, Microeconomic Principles and Advanced
Microeconomic Analysis.
In 2002, Conrad was recognized as California’s Carnegie
Professor of the Year, a prestigious national award in
higher education that recognizes the most outstanding
undergraduate instructors who excel as teachers and mentors.
The award is made by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE), the world's largest
international association of educational institutions. The
same year, she also received a Wig Distinguished
Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, by a vote of
Pomona’s junior and senior classes.
Outside the classroom, Conrad focuses her research on the
impact of race and gender on economic status in the United
States. Following Pomona tradition, students often assist in
her research work. Conrad is the editor of Building Skills
for Black Workers: Preparing for the Future Labor Market
(2004) and a co-editor of the forthcoming African Americans
in the U.S. Economy (January 2005). Her recent publications
also include the chapters “The Economic Vulnerability of
Blacks and Hispanics, 1980-2001” in Strengthening Community
Social Insurance in a Diverse America (2004), “Econometrics
and Postcolonial Theory: A Comment on the Fluidity of Race”
in Postcolonialism Meets Economic Theory (2003) and “Racial
Trends in Labor Market Access and Wages: Women” in America
Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences (National
Academy Press, 2001). She is editor of The Review of Black
Political Economy and an associate editor of the journal
Feminist Economics. In addition, she has published in the
Journal of Economic Education, her discipline’s leading
journal of pedagogy.
A former president of the National Economics Association,
Conrad is currently member of the prestigious MacArthur
Research Network on Family and the Economy, a member of the
economics board of Black Enterprise Magazine and the
director of the American Economics Association’s pipeline
project to increase the number of minority doctorate holders
in economics. For many years, she was a member of the
American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic
Education. She has also written questions for the
Educational Testing Service’s major field test.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. Visit Pomona College on the web at
www.pomona.edu.
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