Dr Susan Engel

BA (Hons), MA (ANU), PhD (UOW)

Location: 19.2036
Phone: 02 4221 3708
Email: sengel@uow.edu.au

Biography

Susan is a lecturer in international studies, global politics and international political economy and she convenes the Master of International Studies program. Her research interests are broadly in the area of international political economy, specifically development theory and practices, aid and food. She has a strong interest in Southeast Asia. She published a book with Routledge called: The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia: Inheritance of Loss (2009).

Susan has broad professional experience in the government, community, and aid sectors and continues to be involved in aid through a volunteer role on the management committee of indigo foundation; a small, not-for-profit organisation funding community development projects in developing countries.

Research Profile

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Selected Publications

Engel, Susan. The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Indonesia and Vietnam: Inheritance of Loss, Routledge, 2009.
Engel, Susan. “From Theory to Practice in Development” in G. Argyrous and F. Stilwell (eds) Economics as a Social Science: Readings in Political Economy, Pluto Press, forthcoming.
Engel, Susan. “Development Economics: Classical, Neoclassical, Critical” in R.A. Denemark (ed), The International Studies Compendium Project, Oxford: International Studies Association and Blackwell Publishing, 2010.
Engel, Susan. “International Financial Institutions and regionalism: the case of Southeast Asia.” Australian Journal for International Affairs 64(1), February 2010: 55-69.
Engel, Susan. Review Essay, “Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith and China: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century.” Critical Asian Studies, 40(2) 2008: 323-330 (approx. 3,800 words).
Engel, Susan. “Hegemony and the World Bank in Vietnam.” In Richard Howson and Kylie Smith (eds.) Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion (Routledge Press, 2008).
Engel, Susan and Brian Martin. “Union Carbide and James Hardie: Lessons in Politics and Power,” Global Society Vol. 20 No. 4, 2006, pp.475-490.