Help us congratulate Dr Melanie Long. She was just awarded tenure!
Since coming to Wooster, Dr Long has published four peer reviewed papers and made multiple academic and media contributions, even appearing on NPR’s Marketplace. Dr Long’s research interests are in the political economy of inequality and household finance and has been published in Forum for Social Economics, Review of Black Political Economy, Journal of Economic Issues and Studies in Higher Education. Dr Long’s was invited to write a blog post for the Monetary Policy Institute on, “Who Bears the Costs of Contractionary Monetary Policy.” In this post, she points out that raising interest rates disproportionately affect black and hispanic individuals, especially single women with children. In this and various other forums she has provided research to back-up Raphael Bostic’s call for the Federal Reserve to “reduce racial inequities and bring about a more inclusive economy.”
Dr Long has a passion for teaching and mentoring Wooster’s senior thesis students. She uses her research skills to further teaching pedagogy as evidenced by publication in teaching journals. Last but not least, Dr Long recently presented a coauthored piece with recent graduate Madison Buckley and Dr Zareen Thomas from the Sociology Department at the ASSA Meetings in New Orleans on “Barriers to Entry”. This work drew on the Buckley’s senior independent study which found that “women and gender minorities .. consider a sense of community and representation to be more important when choosing their college major. In addition, women and gender minority students are less likely to view economics as a safe space”. Putting theory into practice, Dr Long has served as a co-advisor to the student group WWGME that exists to uplift women and gender minorities on our campus.
Congratulations Dr Long!