Occupation
Professor Emeritus
Contact
Secondary Phone: 413-585-3623
Fax: 413-585-3389
ABOUT
Karen Pfeifer is Professor Emerita of Economics at Smith College, having taught there from 1979 to 2010. Pfeifer's main teaching and research interests are in comparative economic systems, with an area focus on economic growth and development in the Middle East and North Africa. She was named a Fulbright senior scholar in 1993-1994 and 2001-2002, and has done research in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian Territories. Her two current scholarly projects entail applying the theory of social structures of accumulation to a sample of Middle Eastern economies and explaining the dynamics of relations between the Gulf and eastern Mediterranean economies. She has served as an editor of Research in Middle East Economics, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, and Middle East Report. Pfeifer received her Ph.D. in economics from The American University in 1981.
Discipline
Economics
Sub Areas
Comparative
Development
Trade/Investment
19th-21st Centuries
Political Economy
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Mediterranean Countries
Mashreq
Turkey
Specialties
Econ Dev In ME/N Af 19-21st C
Islamic Econ
Reg Integration/Investment, East Med/GCC
Education
PhD
| 1981
| Econ
| Amer U
MA
| 1969
| Anthropology
| SUNY-Binghamton
Abstracts
The Investment Dimension of Growth and Crisis in the Arab East in the 2000s
The Tortuous Path to a New Economic Agenda for Egypt and Tunisia
Bottom-Up Elements in an Inclusive Program for Sustainable Development in Egypt
Economic Justice for Women in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011
