Birte Strunk

Assistant Professor of Economics

Primary Academic Program: Economics

Biography: Birte Strunk is an Assistant Professor of Economics. Her teaching focus includes classes in Political Economy of Race and Gender, Ecological Economics, and American Economic History. She holds a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City.
Originally from Germany, she received her undergraduate degree from University College Maastricht, a Liberal Arts College in the Netherlands, and holds master’s degrees in both economics (MSc Vienna University; MPhil NSSR) and philosophy (Fernuniversität Hagen). Since 2024, she has pursued a second PhD in philosophy at NSSR (currently on leave). As part of her economics PhD, she was a research fellow at the Germany-based ZOE Institute for future-fit economies, and spent a semester as a visiting research fellow at Harvard University. She has also been a long-standing member of a number of activist and professional networks in Europe, such as the Pluralism in Economics Network or the Post-Growth Economics Network.
As a feminist ecological economist, her research focuses on linking social and ecological perspectives, especially around questions on labor. As a philosopher, she explores Degrowth as a Critical Theory of the economy. In the past, she published on feminist ecological economics, degrowth and philosophy of (plural) economics.
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