Jacqueline Strenio

“I'm lucky to have amazing, interdisciplinary collaborators at Norwich, other universities in the United States (especially the University of Utah, where I went to graduate school), and worldwide, including Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.”

Jacki Strenio is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Norwich University. Her research and teaching interests are in feminist economics, gender, health, and public policy. Her current research focuses on violence against women and girls, including public space sexual harassment and intimate partner violence. Her research emphasizes that such violence not only constrains a person’s capability for life and bodily health but can also result in other significant unfreedoms including deprivation of the capability for economic well-being. 

Recent publications on these topics have appeared in the journals Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Global Public Health, and Feminist Economics, the Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan, and The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She also holds a Higher Education Teaching Specialist (HETS) designation and is committed to implementing more effective, research-backed practices in her classrooms and encouraging diversity in economics education more broadly. 

She has published on the necessity of plurality and innovation in economics education, with articles appearing in The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Advances in Economics Education, and the Journal of Economic Education. Jacki is currently working on a book that discusses incorporating gender into the teaching of economics. At Norwich University, she teaches Health Economics and Policy, Public Finance, Economics of Race and Gender in the 20th Century, Principles of Microeconomics, and The Structure and Operation of the World Economy.

Ph.D. Economics, University of Utah
M.S. Economics, University of Utah
B.A. Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder

Jacki Strenio conducts research in two primary areas: the economic causes and consequences of violence against women and creating more inclusive and diverse economics classrooms through innovative pedagogy and content. As an economist, she is interested in using my disciplinary perspective and tools to understand how the world works and how it might be improved, especially when it comes to gender issues with policy-oriented applications. Her research journey began when she received an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program grant allowing her to travel to Guatemala and research microloan programs and women microentrepreneurs. Her advice to students is to seek out the active Undergraduate Research community here at Norwich, carry a notebook with you and jot down observations and questions about the world, and read widely.

EC 106 Structure and Operation of the World Economy
EC 202 Principles of Microeconomics
HUMA 223 Economics, Race, and Gender in 20th Century America
MG 360 Health Economics and Policy
EC 406 Public Finance
MG 450 Internship in Management

Strenio, J. and Sackey, J. 2024. "Economics and intimate partner violence" in T. VanderPyl & S. Sanchez (Eds.) Exploitation and Criminalization at the Margins: The Hidden Toll on Unvalued Lives. Lexington Books, Fields, D., Strenio, J., Mackett, O., and Buder, I. 2024.

"For Whom Does One Toil? Time Use Differentials, Social Reproduction, and Occupational Prestige: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey” Forum for Social Economics. Berik, G., Bhattacharya, H., Singh, T.P., Sinha, A., Shajahan Naomi, S., Strenio, J., Zafar, S., and Talboys, S. 2024.

“Men’s Perspectives on Public-Space Sexual Harassment of Women in South Asia” Global Public Health 19(1).