Martha MacDonald (Ph.D.) has been at Saint Mary's since 1982. She is a Professor in the Economics Department and is also active in the Women's Studies and Atlantic Canada Studies programmes. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University and a Public Policy Fellow at Radcliffe College. Her research has been funded by SSHRC, HRDC, CIHR, the Donner Canadian Foundation and IDRC. She was awarded the John Vanderkaamp Prize for the best paper published in Canadian Public Policy in 2001 (with Shelley Phipps and Fiona MacPhail) and is an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics.

• economic restructuring
• gender and the economy
• social security policy
• restructuring in rural Atlantic Canada

• ECO 340 Human Resource Economics
• ECO 349 Women and the Economy
• ECO 341 Labour Economics