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Julianne Malveaux: economist and college president
A short, sourced note on economist Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College from 2007 to 2012 and founding dean of ethnic studies at Cal State LA.
In short
Julianne Malveaux, born in 1953 in San Francisco, is an economist, author and commentator. She earned a Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1980, served as the fifteenth president of Bennett College, a historically Black college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 2007 to 2012, and in 2021 became founding dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Her books include Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History (2010).
- Born
- September 22, 1953, San Francisco
- Ph.D.
- Economics, MIT, 1980
- Bennett College
- President, 2007-2012
- Cal State LA
- Founding dean, College of Ethnic Studies (2021)
What is her work?
Malveaux is an economist whose writing focuses on race, gender and economic policy. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Boston College and a doctorate from MIT. She has written syndicated newspaper columns and books including Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes (1994), Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History (2010) and Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy (2016).
What schools has she led?
She was president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 2007 to 2012, and in 2021 she was appointed founding dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
Why is she on this site?
This address was used for a page about her by an earlier site on this domain. We kept it so links still work. Her field, the economics of race and poverty, connects to the argument Fannie Lou Hamer made in her later years, that the vote had to come with food, land and jobs; see the Freedom Farm. As a living person, she is described here only through her public work.
Questions readers ask
Is she connected to this site?
No. This address was used by an earlier, unrelated site on this domain. We describe her public work from published sources only.
Sources
- Julianne MalveauxWikipedia
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