Karen Pfeifer is a Professor of Economics at Smith College and has taught there since 1979. She received her Ph.D. in economics from The American University in 1981. She served twice in the administration of Smith College, and was an editor of Research in Middle East Economics and of Middle East Report. Pfeifer's main teaching fields are alternative economic theory and comparative economic systems, with research focused on economic development and social change in the Middle East and North Africa. She was named a Fulbright senior scholar twice, in 1993-1994 and 2001-2002, and has done research in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories. Her current scholarly projects focus on the relation between the discipline of economics and Middle East area studies, and the application of the theory of social structures of accumulation to a subset of Middle Eastern economies.

Phone: 413 - 585 - 3623
Building: Neilson Library 4/06
E-mail: kpfeifer@email.smith.edu