Samantha Sterba Ph.D.

Samantha is a political economist with research interests in social reproduction, health economics, and economic history. Her dissertation research applied Social Structure of Accumulation theory to case studies of recent U.S. healthcare reforms. Her current research analyzes the organization and distribution of care in the United States. She is on the advisory committees for Health, Medicine, and Society (HMS) and Race and Ethnic Studies/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (REST/WGS).

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• M.A. in Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• B.A. in Economics, Roanoke College

• Visiting Lecturer, University of Vermont, 2018
• Visiting Lecturer, Smith College, 2014 - 2016
• Teaching Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014 - 2018
• Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010-2016

• Outstanding Faculty Award for Writing Instruction, University of Redlands 2024
• Union for Radical Political Economics Dissertation Fellowship, 2018
• Political Economy Research Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2016