Zdravka K - UMKC



Zdravka Todorova

Curriculum Vitae

Assistant Professor e-mail: zdravka.todorova@wright.edu

Economics Department office phone: (937) 775 - 3932

Raj Soin College of Business - 110 Rike Hall

Wright State University

3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy

Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001

• 2006 - present: Assistant Professor, Economics Department Raj Soin College of Business, Wright State University

• 2005 – 2006: Distinguished Dissertation Fellow, Graduate School, University of Missouri – Kansas City.

• 2004 – 2005: Pre-doctoral Fellow, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.

• 2003 – 2005: Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow, University of Missouri – Kansas City.

• 1999 – 2003: Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Economics, University of Missouri – Kansas City.

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City, Economics, Dissertation: Reconsidering Households in Economic Theory (May 2007; Advisor: Fred S. Lee).

• M.A. Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2001.

• B.S. Agribusiness Economics, Plovdiv University – Paisiy Chilendarski, Bulgaria, 1998, Thesis: "International Marketing of a Bulgarian Wine-producer: Distribution and Communication Policy of Vinprom-Liaskovetc in the Foreign Market"

Dissertation Award:

• International Veblen Prize commemorating the 150th  anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen awarded by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy and the American Association for Evolutionary Economics (2007).

Research Areas

• Monetary Theory of Production

• Institutional/Post Keynesian Economics

• History of Economic Thought

Articles in Refereed Journals

• “Deficits and Institutional Theorizing about Households and the State,” Journal of Economic Issues, XLI (2) 2007.

• “Habits of Thought, Agency and Transformation: An Institutional Approach to Ecological Economics,” Feminist Economics XI (3) 2005.

Refereed Encyclopedia Entries

• “Liquidity Premium” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; Editors: William Darity and Alan Hedblad; Macmillan Reference USA (forthcoming 2007).

• “Production” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; Editors: William Darity and Alan Hedblad; Macmillan Reference USA (forthcoming 2007)

• “Forces of Production” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; Editors: William Darity and Alan Hedblad; Macmillan Reference USA (forthcoming 2007).

• “Wealth” with Fadhel Kaboub, entry in Cynthia Northrup (ed.) World Trade: A Historical Encyclopedia of Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe (September 2005).

• “Redistribution” with Fadhel Kaboub, entry in Cynthia Northrup (ed.) World Trade: A Historical Encyclopedia of Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe (September 2005).

• “Recession,” with Mathew Forstater, encyclopedia entry, in Cynthia Northrop, editor, Encyclopedia of US Economic History and Policy, ABC CLIO: Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, 2004.

Book Reviews

• Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered, by Lourdes Beneria. Routledge: NY and London, 2003, Review of Political Economy 18 (1) 2006: 129 - 131.

Invited Conference Panelist

• ICAPE Conference; June 2007, Salt Lake City; “Anthropogenic Approach to Households within a Monetary Theory of Production”.

• Eastern Economic Association; New York, February, 2007; Session: Fiscal Policy Debates, paper: “The Theory of Institutional Change and its Application to Budget Deficits”.

• ASSA, Chicago, January, 2007; Session: Institutional Perspectives on Macroeconomic Policies, paper: “Institutional Analysis of Deficits: Theorizing about Households and the State”.

• Annual Conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics; Washington, D.C. June, 2005; Session: Connections between Feminist and Post Keynesian Economics, Presentation: “Considering Liquidity Preference in Feminist Economics.”

Other Conference Presentations

• “Introducing Gender Analysis in Post Keynesian Theory” (Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop, UMKC, June 2006); Young Scholars Award for "Incorporating Gender in Keynes’s Theory of Monetary Production," (panel on Gender in Theories of Monetary Production, Association for Institutional Thought, Phoenix, AZ, 2006).

• “Households' Heterogeneity in Post Keynesian Theory” (Missouri Valley Economic Association, Kansas City, MO, October 2005).

• “Budgets and Money: Gender Assumptions Behind Currency Boards,” IAFFE (Oxford, UK, August 2004).

• “Households’ Financial Positions and Buffer Stock Employment Program: a Social Provisioning Approach” - co-authored with Fadhel Kaboub and Mathew Forstater, 8th International Post-Keynesian Workshop (Kansas City, June 2004).

• “Household Debt in a Monetary Production Economy,” Missouri Valley Economic Association, (Kansas City, February 2004).

• "Consumption in the Context of Debtor-Creditor Relations," International Conference of the Associations for Pluralism in Economics (Kansas City, June 2003).

• “Make-Belief versus Livelihood – Veblenian Analysis of a Monetary Production Economy,” Association for Institutional Thought (Las Vegas, April 2003).

• “Trends in Official Development Assistance and AIDS in HIPC: The Need for a Global Public Health Financial Initiative,” 6th Annual CITA Conference - Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development: Supporting Public Health and a Healthy Society (University of Massachusetts – Lowell, November 2002). “HIV/AIDS’s Toll on Education in Africa – A Global Responsibility,” presented at the PBD International Honor Society, (Puebla, Mexico, February, 2003).

• "Instrumental and Ceremonial Aspects of Consumer Behavior among Women in the USA," presented at the 37 Annual Meeting of Missouri Valley Economic Association (February 22-24, 2001); Revised Version Presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association, Forth Worth, Texas (March 14 -18, 2001).

Conference Discussant

• Session: “Government Intervention to Employ Women” (IAFEE Washington, June 2005).

• Session: “Accumulation, Gender Segregation and Discrimination in Paid Work,” International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics (University of Utah’s Department of Economics Salt Lake City, June 2004).

Session Organizer

• “Theories of Monetary Production and Gender” (Association for Institutional Thought, April 2006).

• “Micro-Macro Linkages in Post Keynesian Theory” (Missouri Valley Economic Association, Kansas City, MO, October 2005).

• “Micro and Macro Aspects of Household Consumption and Debt” (Missouri Valley Economic Association - Kansas City, MO, February, 2004).

Fellowships

• Distinguished Dissertation Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School (UMKC, 2005 – 2006).

• Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY (2004 – 2005).

• Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship, University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2003 - 2005.

• Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, University of Utah (June 2004).

• American Institute for Economic Research, Massachusetts - Summer Fellowship (10 June - 4 August 2001).

• UMKC: Women’s Council Graduate Assistance Fellowship - Chancellor Martha Gilliland Award, and Tiffany Saunders Patterson Award, with outstanding merit (April, 2004); Women’s Council Graduate Assistance Fellowship - Eleanor Brantley Schwartz Award (April, 2003); UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistance Fellowship - Barbara Pendleton Award and Philip Starr Award (April, 2002).

Other Awards and Honors

• Association for Institutional Thought, 2006 Young Scholars Award for "Incorporating Gender in Keynes’s Theory of Monetary Production".

• Ilus W. Davis Writing Competition Award for “Make-Belief vs. Livelihood – Veblenian Analysis of a Monetary Production Economy” (August 2003).

• Prize from Dr. Robert W. Brazelton (UMKC) for the best student paper and presentation at the 37th Missouri Valley Conference, February 22-24 (“Instrumental and Ceremonial aspects of Consumer Behavior among Women in the USA”).

• UMKC: Doctoral Students Travel Grants; Phi Beta Delta Award; A&S Dean’s Office Awards; Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop; UMKC credit hours tuition waiver (Fall 2002); UMKC Women’s Council Awards; Chancellor Non-Resident Award (UMKC, 1999 – 2002).

Participation in Collaborative Research Projects

• “US Economic Policy - Oral History,” with Robert Brazelton, UMKC Research Assistant (Summer 2004).

• “The Adverse Economic Impact from Repeal of the Prevailing Wage Law in Missouri,” Center for Full Employment and Price Stability - UMKC, Research Assistant (Fall 2003).

• “Collected Writings of Robert Heilbroner,” with Mathew Forstater, UMKC, Coordinator (Summer 2003).

• “Institutional Economics - Oral History,” with James Sturgeon, UMKC, Research Assistant (Fall 2001- 2003).

Guest Speaker

• “U.S. Social Security and Women: an International Perspective,” Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, International Women’s Day Event (Geneva, NY, 8 March 2005).

Journal Referee

• Review of Political Economy; Feminist Economics

Scholarly Research Networks

• Social Science Consortium, University of Missouri – Kansas City; Program on Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics

Academic Memberships

• Association for Evolutionary Economics; Association for Institutional Thought; Association for Social Economics; European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy International Association for Feminist Economics; Union for Radical Political Economics.

Economics Department Committees:

Graduate Program Committee

Teaching

• WSU (present): Principles of Macroeconomics; Institutional Economics (undergraduate); Economic, Social, and Natural Systems (graduate); Development of Economic Thought (graduate).

• Gender Dimensions of Finance and Budgeting – initiated, designed, developed, and taught (Intermediate level; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Spring 2004).

• Political Economy of Globalization – initiated, designed, developed, and taught (Introductory level; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Fall 2004)

• Econ 100: Economics Explained – developed and taught (UMKC, Fall 2002).

Languages

• Bulgarian – native; English – fluent; Russian – intermediate reading level.

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