Janice Peterson is a Professor Emerita of Economics at California State University, Fresno. Prior to joining the faculty
at California State University, Fresno in the fall of 2006, Dr. Peterson worked as
a Senior Economist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and a Study Director
at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. She was also a member of the Economics
faculties at the State University of New York, Fredonia, and Wells College.
Dr. Peterson served as the Director of Economic Education for the Center for Economic
Research and Education of Central California at California State University, Fresno
(fall 2006-spring 2012) and as the Economics Department’s Economic Education Coordinator
(fall 2012-fall 2017). She also served as the President of the Association for Evolutionary
Economics (2011) and served on the Executive Council for the Association for Social
Economics (2015-2019).
