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Linda Lucas
Visiting Professor

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Phone: 813/974-3496
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Linda E. Lucas, Ph.D. is a Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at the University of South Florida  in Tampa Florida. She has a Ph.D. in economics and specializes in policy development and analysis. Her teaching and research specialties are in women and work, gendered consequences of globalization and gender and economic development. She has taught in Women's Studies and Women and Gender Studies Departments in several places and was a founding member of departments or programs at the University of Notre Dame, Thammasat University, and Eckerd College.

Her new book, Unpacking Globalization: Markets, Gender and Work (Lexington Books, 2007) details the responses of men and women all over the world to the processes of globalization.  She concludes that even the poorest persons are participating more actively in the global economy through education, small enterprises and  international trade.

Dr. Lucas has held Fulbright Professorships in Mexico City and Kampala, Uganda. She has been an East West Center Fellow, a Visiting Professor of Economics at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, Visiting Researcher at the Economic Policy Research Center in Kampala and the Thailand Development Research Institute in Bangkok.  She taught  at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Hawaii, Makerere University (Uganda) and at Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Florida) where she is Professor Emeritus.

For many years she researched marine resource policy related to the international allocation of fishery resources through treaty and regulation. She has published widely in this field and regularly consults with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service on economic policy. She has recently extended this interest in science policy to interdicisplinary research on undergraduate women who chose science as a career and women and health information. 

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