CURRICULUM VITA

Emma C. Stephens                                                      Telephone: 909-607-7952
Pitzer College                                                              Fax: 909-621-8481
Fletcher 222                                                                E-mail: emma_stephens@pitzer.edu
1050 N. Mills Avenue                                                               
Claremont, CA 91711

EMPLOYMENT
July 2007 to present: Assistant Professor of Economics, Pitzer College

EDUCATION
Ph. D., Economics, Cornell University, July 2007
Dissertation: ‘Essays on Commodity Market Participation and Dynamics in Three African Countries’
Committee: Christopher B. Barrett (chair), Harry M. Kaiser, Stefan Klonner
Fields of Interest: Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, System Dynamics, Economic History
M. A., Economics, Cornell University, April 2006
B. Sc., Physics, McGill University, June 1996

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Mellon Foundation Junior Research Grant 2010
• Pitzer Faculty Research Award 2007-2008
• Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2002-2007
• Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant for “Missing Credit Markets, Storage and Commodity Market Behavior” in western Kenya, 2005

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS
Douglas R. Brown, Emma C. Stephens, James O. Ouma, Festus M. Murithi and Christopher B. Barrett “Livelihood Strategies in the Rural Kenyan Highlands,” African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 1, no. 1 (December 2006): pp. 21-35.

“Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behavior,” with Christopher B. Barrett, Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 62, no. 1 (February 2011): pp. 1-24.

“Spatial Price Adjustment with and without Trade,” with Ed Mabaya, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Christopher B. Barrett, forthcoming Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

 “Modeling Feedback between Economic and Biophysical Systems in Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya: The Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) model,” with Christopher B. Barrett, Douglas R. Brown, Johannes Lehmann, David Mbugua, Solomon Ngoze, Charles F. Nicholson, David Parsons, Alice N. Pell and Susan J. Riha, April 2011, under review

“Feedback Relationships between New Technology Use and Information Networks: Evidence from Ghana,” March 2011

“Seasonal Market Usage in rural Ethiopian Teff Markets” March 2010

“International Trade Liberalization and Spatial Price Adjustment in Bangladesh,” with Paul A. Dorosh and Christopher B. Barrett, June 2008

“Threshold adjustment and/or threshold cointegration?  An application to the German apple market,” with Linde Goetz and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, June 2008

 “Structural Adjustment during Canada’s Wheat Boom: 1900-1913,” May 2008

TEACHING

• Economic Development, Pitzer College
• Economic History of Globalization, Pitzer College,
• Principles of Macroeconomics, Pitzer College
• Microeconomic Theory, Pitzer College
• Instructor, short course on Crops, Livestock and Soils in Smallholder Economic Systems (CLASSES) System Dynamics model, Nairobi, Kenya, January 2007
• Co-Instructor (joint with Charles F. Nicholson), Introduction to System Dynamics, Cornell University, Fall 2006

PRESENTATIONS
2009-2010:   Pacific Conference for Development Economics Annual Meeting (USC)
2008-2009:   Centre for the Study of African Economics Annual Meeting
(Oxford University)
Courant Research Centre Inaugural Conference (University of Göttingen)
Pitzer College
2007-2008:   Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting (Vancouver)
Western Economic Association International Annual Meeting (Honolulu)
American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting (Orlando)
2006-2007:  American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting (Long
Beach)
Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting (Montreal)
North East Universities Development Consortium (Cornell University)

REFEREEING
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics

OTHER EXPERIENCE
Peace Corps Volunteer, Water and Sanitation Program, Cameroon, 1997-1999
Board Member, Friends of Cameroon Returned Volunteer Association, 2001 to present

CITIZENSHIP AND LANGUAGES
Canadian, American, British; English (Fluent), French (Conversational)