Fred Curtis
Office:
202 Lewis House
Phone: (973) 408 - 3432
Email: fcurtis@drew.edu
Title: Professor of Economics (1979)
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (1983); M.A., University of Massachusetts (1977); B.A., Haverford College (1973)
Teaching Experience: Drew University, 1979 – present
Specialties: Environmental/Ecological Economics, Political Economy of Globalization, Economic Pedagogy
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Research Interests: Re-localization of economies as a response to global warming and peak oil, sustainable development, impact of globalization on the natural environment
Selected Publications:
"Eco-Localism and Sustainability", Ecological Economics , vol. 46, No. 1 (August 2003), pp. 83-102.
"Ivy-Covered Exploitation: Class, Education and the Liberal Arts College", in J.K. Gibson-Graham, et. al., (Eds.), Re/presenting Class (Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 81-104.
"Social Distress Theory and Teaching about Homelessness: A Retrospective Analysis", with Ann Saltzman, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994), pp. 99-133.
"Foreign Disinvestment and Investment – South Africa: 1960-1986" in Zbigniew A. Konzacki, et. Al., (eds.), An Economic History of Southern Africa: Volume Two (London, Frank Cass and Co. Ltd., 1991), pp. 175-210
"Race and Class in South Africa: Socialist Politics in the Current Conjuncture", Rethinking MARXISM, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1988), pp. 108-134.
"Class, Race and Income Distribution: Analyzing ‘White’ South Africa" in Paul Zarembka (ed.), Research in Political Economy, Vol. 9 (Fall 1986), pp. 33-67
"’Cheap’ African Labor-Power and South African Capitalism,: 1948-1978" in Paul Zarembka (ed.), Research in Political Economy, Vol. 7 (November 1984), pp. 185-235
"Contradiction and Uneven Development in South Africa: the Constrained Allocation of African Labour-Power", Journal of Modern African Studies Vol. 22, No. 3 (1984), pp. 381-397
Distinctions/Awards:
2004-2005 Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Drew University