Kirsten Wandschneider

Kirsten Wandschneider joined Middlebury College as an assistant professor in the fall of 2003. At Middlebury Kirsten teaches courses on international economics, international finance, macroeconomics, and economic history. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2003. Her dissertation under the direction of Larry Neal focused on the development of monetary institutions in central and east Europe during the inter-war years. Her main research focus continues to be the financial history of Europe and the development and stability of economic institutions.

Kirsten holds a Masters of Science degree in finance from the University of Illinois, and a Vordiplom in economics from the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany. During the academic year 2002/2003 Kirsten visited the economics department at the University of California at Berkeley and taught for the Berkeley summer school. In the summer of 2004 Kirsten was a visiting researcher at the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn, Germany.