Ann Harper
Fender
Gettysburg
College
Economics Department, Box
391
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
17325
717-337-6671
September,
2001
EDUCATION
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1964, B.A. (major: economics;
minor: mathematics)
Johns Hopkins University, 1976, Ph.D. (economics)
Dissertation Title: Location of the United States Iron and Steel Industry, 1879-1919.
Lindback Outstanding Teaching Award, 1991.
Phi Beta Kappa; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; undergraduate - Magna Cum Laude with honors in economics, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.
Acting Chair, Management Department, Gettysburg College, Spring, 1996
Chair, Economics Department, Gettysburg College, 1984-1994
Professor of Economics, Gettysburg College - Fall, 1989- present
Associate Professor of Economics, Gettysburg College - Fall, 1978-1989
Visiting scholar, Center for the Study of Public Choice, fall, 1984
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Colorado State University - Spring, 1978
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Gettysburg
College - Fall, 1977 (Part-time)
Associate Professor of Economics, Western Maryland College - 1976 -1978
Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Maryland College - 1968 1976
Paper given, “Using the Great Depression to teach Economics and Quantitative Reasoning,” Southern Economic Association Meetings, Crystal City, Va.; Nov, 2000.
(Chaired session and discussed paper at same conference)
Paper given, “Alcohol in the Fur Trade: Isle a la Crosse, 1805-1823,” given at the Rupert’s Land Research Centre Colloquium, Vancouver, Washington; May, 2000.
Paper given, “The Isle a la Crosse Trade Journals, 1805-1823,” given at the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. biennial conference, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Nov, 1999.
Paper given, "The Fur Trade as a Game: Does the Time Horizon Matter?," Rupert's Land
Colloquium, Whitehorse, Yukon; June, 1996.
Paper given, "Using the Internet to Teach Introductory Microeconomics," Teaching Economics;
Pittsburgh, February, 1996
Paper given, "Surfing into Intermediate Micro," Southern Economic Association meetings, New
Orleans, LA, November, 1996.
Paper given, "The Saskatchewan Fur Marketing Service and the Fur Trade," Seventh North
American Fur Trade Conference; Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1995.
Paper given, "Account Books as Source of Economic Information: Isle a la Crosse, 1800-1821," Rupert's Land Research Colloquium; Edmonton, Alberta; May, 1994.
Paper given, "The Introductory Economics Course: Some Proposals for Change," Southern
Economic Association meetings; New Orleans, LA; November, 1993. Ann Harper Fender -2-
Paper discussed, "Teaching Economics" session, Southern Economic Association meetings; New Orleans, LA; November, 1993.
Paper given, "Competitive and Pricing Strategies in the Columbia Department, 1821-1846,"
Columbia Department Fur Trade Conference; Sidney, B.C.; October, 1993.
Paper co-given with Jean Fletcher, Kim Rogers, "The Impact of Monitoring Costs on Teenagers' Contributions to Home Production," Southern Economic Association meetings; Washington, DC; November 1992.
Paper discussed, "Economic Issues in the Academy" session; Southern Economic Association
meetings; Washington, DC; November 1992.
Paper given, "Competition, Predation, and Resolution: The Isle-a-la-Crosse Journals,
1805-1823," Rupert's Land Research Centre Colloquium 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba; February,
1992.
Paper given, "Predatory Pricing and the Nineteenth Century Canadian Fur Trade: Rational Pursuit of Profit or Short-Term Folly, Long-Term Disaster?," Sixth North American Fur Trade
Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan; September, 1991.
Paper given, "Predation and the Hudson's Bay Company," Western Economic Association
Meetings, Seattle, WA, June, 1991. Also given at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario,
November, 1991, and the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October, 1991.
Discussant of paper, "Economic Education" session, Western Economic Association meetings;
Seattle, WA, June, 1991.
Paper jointly given, "Mothers' Work and the Household Production Time of Teenagers," (with
Jean Fletcher and Kim Rogers), Atlantic Economic Society meetings, October, 1991.
Paper given, "Predatory Pricing: The 19th Century Hudson's Bay Company," Southern Economic
Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November, 1990.
Paper given, "Market Power and Locational Decision: The Hudson's Bay Company, circa 1800,"
Economic and Business Historical Society Meetings, Lexington, Kentucky; April, 1990.
Paper given, "Technological Change, Opportunity Costs, and Enforcement Costs in Home
Production," Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio; March, 1990.
Discussant of paper, "Human Capital" session; Chair of session, "Microeconomics I," Southern
Economic Association Meetings, Orlando, Florida; November, 1989.
Paper given, "Applied Location Theory: The Hudson's Bay Company," Southern Economic
Association Meetings, San Antonio, Texas; November, 1988.
Paper given, "Applied Location Theory: The Situation of HBC Posts, 1815 1846," Rupert's Land
Research Center Churchill Colloquium, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada; June/July 1988. Paper given, "Organizational Change in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1821-1841," Pennsylvania
Economic Association Meetings, State College, Pennsylvania; May, 1988.
Paper given, "The Economic Organization of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1821 1841,
"Microeconomics Workshop, Pennsylvania State University; April, 1988.
Paper given, "The Economic Organization of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1821 1841, "Biennial
Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Montreal, Quebec;
October, 1987.
Panel member, "Teaching Economic History," Economic History Association Meetings, San
Francisco, California; September, 1987.
Paper given, "July 1, 2, 3, 1863: The Economic Impact on Gettysburg," Pennsylvania Economic
Association Meetings, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; May, 1987.
Report on paper in progress, "Organizational Change in the Hudson's Bay Company," Fifteenth
Conference on Quantitative Techniques in Canadian Economic History, Hamilton, Ontario; April,
1987.
Paper given, "Organizational Change in the Hudson's Bay Company," Eastern Economic
Association Meetings, Alexandria, Virginia; March, 1987.
Paper in progress presented, "Organizational Change in the Hudson's Bay Company After 1821,"
Rupert's Land Research Center Symposium, Winnipeg; June, 1986.
Discussant of paper, "Ibn Khaldum's Fourteenth Century Views on Bureaucracy," Pennsylvania
Economic Association Meetings; May, 1986.
Paper given, "The Hudson's Bay Company: Precursor to the Modern Corporation," University of
Delaware Economics Department Seminar, Newark, Delaware; April, 1986.
Paper given, "The Hudson's Bay Company: Precursor to the Modern Corporation," Economic
History Association Meetings; September, 1985.
Paper given, "A Transaction-Cost, Analysis of the Hudson's Bay Company," Fifth North
American Fur Trade Conference; May, 1985.
Discussant of papers, session entitled, "Entry Deterrence and Predation," Southern Economic
Association Meetings; November, 1983.
Discussant of papers, session entitled, "Transaction Costs: The New Institutional Economics," Law
and Society Association Meetings; June, 1983.
Paper given, "Treaty Rights and Resource Use: The Crees of Saskatchewan," New Jersey
Political Science Association Meetings; April, 1982.
Discussant of paper, "Monetary Policy in the Interwar Period," Southern Economic Association
Meetings; November, 1981.
Paper given, "Technological Change in Household Production: Its Implication for the Female
Labor Force," Atlantic Economic Conference; October, 1981. Ann Harper Fender -4-
Discussant of paper, "Restrictions on State Government Spending: A Public Choice Analysis,"
Pennsylvania Conference of Economists; May, 1981.
Paper given, "Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan,"
Economic History Association Meetings; September, 1980.
Paper given, "The Effects of the Energy Crisis on the Location of Economic Activities in Cities,"
Baltimore Economic Society; February, 1980.
Paper given, "Hierarchies in Economic Analysis," Atlantic Economic Conference; October, 1979.
Discussant of paper, "The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on African Economic Development,"
Atlantic Economic Conference; October, 1979.
Paper given, "Locational and Industrial Concentration in the American Steel Industry,
1879-1919," Atlantic Economic Conference; October, 1976.
Paper given, "Locational Change in the United States Steel Industry, 1879 1919," Atlantic
Economic Conference; September, 1975.
Discussant of paper, "Some Recommendations for the American Steel Industry," Atlantic
Economic Conference; October, 1974.
Book review of Axel Madsen, John Jacob Astor: America’s First Multimillionaire, on Eh.Net, August, 2001.
Book review of Women in 1900: Gateway to the Political Economy of the 20th Century by Christine Bose, forthcoming in Journal of Economic History
“Alcohol in the Trade: Isle a la Crosse, 1805-1823,” in Selected Papers of Rupert’s Land Colloquium 2000, compiled by David Malaher, Center for Rupert’s Land Studies, 2000
"Using Technology for Teaching Economics," with William Walstad, Jean Fletcher, and Wayne
Edwards, in Teaching Economics
"Public vs. Private Ownership: Saskatchewan Fur Trapping and Trading Regulation in the 1940s,"
in Morantz, Sleeper-Smith, Wicken (eds.), The Faces of the Fur Trade, Michigan State University Press,
1998.
Book review of Early Modern Conceptions of Property, ed. By John Brewer and Susan Staves
in Southern Economic Journal, January, 1997.
Book review of The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia,
1700-1860 by Wilma Dunarvay in Journal of Economic History, September 1996.
Book review of The Origins of Southern Sharecropping by Edward Royce in Southern Economic
Journal, April, 1995.
Book reviews of Understanding the Gender Gap by Claudia Goldin; The Challenge of Structural
Adjustments in the Commonwealth Caribbean by Ramesh Ramsarian, Gender, Class, Race and
Reform in the Professional Era, ed. by Noralee Frankel and Nancy Deji; and R & D Cooperation
Among Market-Place Computers, by William Murphy; in Business Library Review.
"Non-residential Construction," David Whitten, ed., Handbook of American Business History,
Vol. II; Greenwood Press.
Book review of Wilderness Presentation and the Sagebrush Rebellions by William Graf; Southern
Economic Journal, April, 1992.
Book review of The Canadian Fur Trade in the Industrial Age by Arthur J. Ray; The Journal of
Economic History, September, 1991. Ann Harper Fender -5-
Book review of The Origins of Economic Democracy by Michael Poole; The Southern Economic
Journal, April, 1991.
"Market Power and Locational Decision: The Hudson's Bay Company, circa 1800," in Edwin J.
Perkins, ed., Essays in Economic and Business History, Vol. IX, 1991.
Book review of Muttering Machines to Laser Beams: A History of Mountain Bell by Herbert J.
Hackensburg; Business Library Review; January, 1991.
Book review of The State, Business and Industrial Change in Canada by Michael M. Atkinson
and William D. Coleman; The American Review of Canadian Studies; Summer, 1990.
Book review of The Future of Economic History, ed. by Alexander Field; Southern Economic
Journal; January, 1990.
"Iron and Steel Foundries," in David Whitten, editor, Handbook of American Business History,
Vol. II; Greenwood Press.
Book review of The Bank of Upper Canada, Peter Baskerville; The American Review of
Canadian Studies; Spring, 1988.
"Organizational Change in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1821-1841," manuscript.
"The Hudson's Bay Company: Precursor to the Modern Corporation," manuscript.
Book review of Economic History and the Modern Economist, ed. by William Parker; Southern
Economic Journal; September, 1987.
Book review of Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, ed. by Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Journal of
Economic History; September, 1987.
"A Transactions-Cost Analysis of the Hudson's Bay Company" in Selected Papers Delivered at
Fifth North American Fur Trade Conference, ed. by Dr. Toby Marantz, Dr. Bruce Trigger and
Louise Dechene; Lake St. Louis Historical Society, Montreal; 1987.
Book review of Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims, ed. by Inre Sutton;
Journal of Economic History; September, 1986.
Book review of Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson, ed. by D. C.
Coleman and Peter Mathias; Southern Economic Journal; April, 1986.
Book review of Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains:
Canadian Traders Among the Mandan
and Hidatsa Indians, 1783-1818, ed. by W. Raymond Wood
and Thomas D. Thiessen; Journal of
Economic History; March, 1986.
Op-ed essay, "Who Should Pay for the Deficit?," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; April 19, 1985.
Book review of Theirs be the Power: The Moguls of Eastern Kentucky in Journal of Economic
History; September, 1984.
Book review, A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus, Ohio, 1881-1980,
Journal of Economic History; June, 1983. Ann Harper Fender -6-
"Discouraging the Use of a Common Resource: The Crees of Saskatchewan," Journal of
Economic History; March, 1981.
Book review of Iron Frontier: The Discovery and Early Development of Minnesota's Three
Ranges in Journal of Economic History; June, 1980.
"Sex Role Stereotyping in Economics and Business Administration," in Sex Bias in Academe: A
Symposium, The Fourth Annual Women's Studies Conference of the Central Pennsylvania
Consortium; held March 15, 1980.
"The Steel Industry and the American South: 1879-1909," unpublished manuscript.
"Devising a Faculty Salary Structure: The Hierarchies Approach," with Richard Draper and David Frinkel; 1979, unpublished manuscript.
Location of the United States Steel Industry, 1879-1919, Arno Press, New York; 1976
(Dissertations in American Economic History series.)
AEA - NCEE - LILLY Teacher Training Workshop on Teaching Introductory Economics;
University of North Carolina; May, 1993.
Canadian Studies Faculty Research Grant, 1991.
Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, faculty development workshop on western
Canada, August, 1990; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British, Columbia. Also,
July/August, 1993.
Chautauqua-type short course on using MAC Hypercard sponsored by National Science
Foundation; Utah State University, August, 1989.
Seminar on laboratory experiments for undergraduate instruction in economics, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation; University of Arizona, May, 1989.
Canadian studies faculty research grant, 1986.
Visiting research associate, Center for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fall,
1984 - January, 1985.
Chautauqua-type short course on demography, sponsored by National Science Foundation,
Temple University Center, November, 1982.
Washington Area Economic History Seminar - meets monthly at American University,
Washington, DC, and is open to interested social scientists.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, "Anthropological Approaches to the Law,"
Princeton University, June 15 - August 7, 1981.
Cliometrics Conference (Quantitative Economic History), sponsored by National Science
Foundation, University of Chicago, June, 1979.
Chautauqua-type short course on quantitative techniques for decision-making, sponsored by
National Science Foundation, Pennsylvania State University, November, 1978 and March, 1979.
Three-week seminar, "Recent Developments in Applied Economics," University of Chicago,
August, 1977.
Courses Taught – First Year Seminars, including The Great Depression: What Caused It? What Cured It? Can It Happen Again? (to satisfy quantitative reasoning or to substitute for introductory macroeconomics), Introductory Microeconomics focusing on poverty; seminar on Time, Technology, and Socio-economic Change in England, 1700-1850; British Economic History, 1700-1850; Mathematical Economics; Regional Economic History and Development: Canada and the U.S.; Principles of Economics; Introduction to Statistics for Social Scientists; U.S. Economic History; Urban Economics, Industrial Organization and Public Policy; Personal Finance; Mathematics of Finance; Managerial Economics, International Cooking (during mini semester);Microeconomic Theory; Senior (Honors) Seminar in Economics; Inter-disciplinary Freshman Colloquy; History of North American Fur Trade; The Golden or Ghastly Age: The Robber Barons; Senior Scholars Seminar (interdisciplinary).
Research Interests - Economic behavior of early trading companies; pre-industrial
economics; property rights; fur trade; industrial concentration; technological change
and its impact on industrial concentration and location; location of industry; historical
aspects of all the preceding; home production.
Committee on College Policies; Athletic Council; Faculty Council; Awards and
Prizes; Student Personnel Problems; Argonauts (Student Honor Society);
Admissions and Standar ds Committee; Athletics Subcommittee of Long-Range
Planning Committee; Faculty Affairs Committee; Grants Advisory Committee;
Financial Aid; Faculty Institutional Planning; Academic Policy and Program
Committee; (Chair, 1983-84); Convener - Chairpersons; S ummer Curriculum Task
Force; Faculty Personnel Committee; Advisory Committee on Student Retention;
Advisory Board of The Gettysburg Review; President - Phi Beta Kappa Chapter,
Executive Committee; Distribution Requirements Subcommittee; Human Resou rces
Advisory Committee; Chair, Executive Committee.
Steering Committee, National Capital Campaign, Gettysburg College, 2000
Other
External Evaluator, Economics program, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Md., winter, 2000.
Education Committee, Economic History Association, 1997-1999 (chair, 1999).
Chair, External Evaluation Team, Economics Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland;
March, 1996.
Colloquy class computer/internet project received "Best Practices" award for creative
technological applications in the classroom, awarded November, 1996, for my course's
work in Fall, 1995.
Advisory Board; Department of Economics; Loyola College of Maryland
External Evaluation Team for Social Sciences, Carthage College, April, 1991.
Member, Evaluation Team of Middle States Accreditation Association, Spring,
1990.
External Evaluation Team for Lafayette College's Department of Economics and
Business Administration, March, 1990. Ann Harper Fender -8-
External Evaluation Team for Western Maryland College's Department of Economics
and Business Administration, November, 1988.
Member, Council of Independent College Academic Workplace Task Force
Member, Evaluation Team of Middle States Accreditation Association - Council on
Higher Education, Fall, 1984.
Member, Evaluation Team of Middle States Accreditation Association - Council on
Higher Education, Fall, 1983.
American Economic Association
Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S.
Economic History Association
Southern Economic Association
Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics)
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