Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

Ferber honored by Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Marianne Ferber, professor emerita of economics at the University of Illinois, was honored Friday by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession at the Allied Social Science Association Convention in Atlanta.

Ferber was named a co-recipient of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, which was created in 1998 to honor a person who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing the understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or the mentoring of others.

Ferber was cited for being a wonderful example to students for decades, a teacher and a researcher who followed her heart, focusing her work on benefiting women. She edited, with Julie Nelson, “Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics,” which a nominator claims marked the beginning of academic respectability for feminist economics.

Ferber, a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, has served as president of that organization and of the Midwest Economics Association. She has served as an editor for Feminist Economics, Review of Social Economics, Women and Work and other journals.

Ferber shares the Shaw award with former UI colleague Francine Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Ferber and Blau are co-authors of “The Economics of Women, Man and Work,” (the latest edition with Anne Winkler), a standard text on women in the economy.

Read Next

Life sciences Portrait of the research team posing together.

Minecraft players can now explore whole cells and their contents

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists have translated nanoscale experimental and computational data into precise 3D representations of bacteria, yeast and human epithelial, breast and breast cancer cells in Minecraft, a video game that allows players to explore, build and manipulate structures in three dimensions. The innovation will allow researchers and students of all ages to navigate […]

Arts Photo of seven dancers onstage wearing blue tops and orange or yellow flowing skirts. The backdrop is a Persian design.

February Dance includes works experimenting with live music, technology and a ‘sneaker ballet’

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The dance department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present February Dance 2025: Fast Forward this week at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. February Dance will be one of the first performances in the newly renovated Colwell Playhouse Theatre since its reopening. The performances are Jan. 30-Feb. 1. Dance professor […]

Honors portraits of four Illinois researchers

Four Illinois researchers receive Presidential Early Career Award

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Four researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The winners this year are health and kinesiology professor Marni Boppart, physics professor Barry Bradlyn, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Ying […]

Strategic Communications and Marketing News Bureau

507 E. Green St
MC-426
Champaign, IL 61820

Email: stratcom@illinois.edu

Phone (217) 333-5010