Birte Strunk

Assistant Professor of Economics

Primary Academic Program: Economics

About Birte Strunk 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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