Sirisha Naidu is Professor and Chair of Economics and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), USA. She is also a research associate at the Asian Political Economy program at PERI, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She teaches courses on the political economy of food systems, ecological economics, and feminist economics. Her research deals with issues of agrarian change and ecological shifts, the interweaving of production and reproduction in the economies of the Global South, and informal and precarious work in the global economy. Her research intersects the areas of environment, development and feminist economics that broadly tackle two questions. What are the environmental and human costs of development and environmental policies? How do working people, differentiated as they are by race/ethnicity, caste and gender, labor to sustain themselves under global capitalism?
In addition to her academic roles, Dr. Naidu regularly comments about labor and economics issues in the media. She is a producer and co-host of the radio show Economics for the People on 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio.
Her research can be found at https://research.umkc.edu/snaidu and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sirisha-Naidu
Teaching:
Environmental and Ecological Economics
Feminist Economics
Economic Development
Microeconomics
Academic Credentials:
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
M.Sc. Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India
B.A. Stella Maris College, Chennai, India