Wheaton economics professor earns Fulbright to Jamaica
Brenda Wyss, associate professor of economics at Wheaton, has been awarded a lecturing and research Fulbright to Jamaica for the spring 2003 semester. Wyss, a political and feminist economist, studies the intersections of gender, family studies and economics, with a particular focus on Jamaica and the Caribbean.
Brenda Wyss, associate professor of economics at Wheaton, has been awarded a lecturing and research Fulbright to Jamaica for the spring 2003 semester. Wyss, a political and feminist economist, studies the intersections of gender, family studies and economics, with a particular focus on Jamaica and the Caribbean.
In Jamaica, Wyss will teach at Northern Caribbean University, offering a course on the political economy of gender and family in Jamaica. Her research component will continue work begun in 2001 at Northern Caribbean University on a survey project on the Jamaican family with Michelle Harris, assistant professor of sociology at Wheaton.
Wyss' research focus ranges from child rearing in Jamaica; Caribbean economic development; family policy; household and family economies and feminist economic theory. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is a resident of Pawtucket, R.I.
