Jennifer S. Long

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Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Tennessee, 1997

  • Major Fields: Economic History and Regional Economics
  • Sub-Fields: History of Economic Thought and Macroeconomics
  • Dissertation: Crisis or Adjustment? The Long View of Changing Employment in One Southern City
  • Dissertation Advisors: Anne Mayhew, Ph.D., and Walter C, Neale, Ph.D. 

B.A, Economics, University of Tulsa, 1992

  • Minor in English
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Appointments

Professor of Economics

University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, 1999-2022

  • Taught a four-four or five-four course load each semester, including Economics courses and team-taught courses within the University's interdisciplinary Core.
  • Advised 20-30 undergraduates each semester.
  • Served on the Advisory Board of the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Center for Social Justice and Racial Healing
  • Certified as a Title IX Advisor through June of 2023
  • Awarded tenure and promotion of Associate Professor in 2005, and promotion to Professor in 2012.

 

Director of the Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum

University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, 2007-2020

  • Coordinated with department chairs to schedule and staff teams of faculty across multiple sections of 15 Core courses each semester.
  • Worked with other administrators during the re-accreditation process for HLC.
  • Ensured that faculty teams met course objectives, and responded to all student concerns and feedback about instructors’s performances.
  • Interviewed prospective faculty hires across all academic disciplines, and mentored those hired to teach in the Core.
  • Spearheaded a general review of the Core and implemented the changes to course content and program structure
  • Served on various administrative committees, including Academic Strategic Planning; Enrollment Management; search committees for faculty and staff positions; Assessment and Accreditation; and Strategic Budgeting

 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Keene State College, 1997-1999

  • Taught a four-four course load each semester across the Economics major

Courses Taught

ECONOMICS

  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  • Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
  • Labor Economics
  • Money and Banking
  • Comparative Economic Systems
  • Economics of Race, Class, and Gender
  • History of Economic Thought
  • International Economics
  • Public Finance
  • U.S. Economic History
  • Regional Economics
  • The Political Economy of Debt
  • Heterodox Economic Theory
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INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

  • Rhetoric and Critical Thinking
  • The Individual in Contemporary Society (Intro to Social Sciences)
  • American Civ I (through 1877)
  • American Civ II (1877-present)
  • Political and Economic Systems and Theories
  • World Thought and Culture II (History of Humanities, 100 C.E. - 1700 C.E.)
  • World Thought and Culture III (History of Humanities, 1700 C.E. - present)
  • Senior Research Seminar

Publications/Presentations

Building Bridges/Dismantling Racism for the Common Good, June 9-11, 2021

Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) Annual Meeting, June 2018

  • Presented “The Liberal Arts through Team Teaching”
  • “Building Community” panel moderator

“Government Job Creation Programs--Lessons from the 1930s and 1940s.” Journal of Economic Issues, 33(4), 1999

“Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: An Elusive American Dream.” Book Review. Journal of Economic Issues, 33(3), 1999

“Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring.” Book Review. Journal of Economic Issues, 32(3), 1998

“Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination.” Book Review. Journal of Economic Issues, 31(3), 1997