About

I’m an assistant professor of economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. There, I teach courses on introduction to political economy, debt & the US economy, political economy, economics and gender, and Marxian political economy. I also teach courses on economic theory and heterodox economics at the Evergreen State College through their PaCe program. Additionally, I am a member of the Solidarity Research Center collective. I’m currently collaborating with Kevin Van Meter, Alex Pyne, and the Blue Bottle Independent Union on a workers’ inquiry project about class composition in the café sector.

I currently serve on the steering committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics, am a member of the board for the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, and am on the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism.

My research tries to use the tools of (critical) political economy to look at the social reproduction of capitalist society, through institutions such as the carceral apparatus, work and occupations, and care work. I’m interested in workers inquiry as a method and participatory action research. I’m always learning, listening, and asking questions. I’ve written and published about intersectional occupational crowding and about the rise of “guard labor” in local labor markets (co-author with Luke Petach at Belmont University). I’m currently writing and revising a literature survey of the concept of “care work”, an analysis of carcerality and care, and writing about unpaid forms of collective care in communities.

I earned by PhD in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I wrote a dissertation on the “Economics and Political Economy of the ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline'” that examined “carceral schooling” in the US. During my years at UMass, I was a member and facilitator with the Center for Popular Economics, and a member of GEO UAW 2322.

You can contact me at awilson@hws.edu (academic) or anastasw@gmail.com (personal) or anastasia@solidarityresearch.org (related to SRC)