Carleton’s economics department received the third annual American Economic Association’s (AEA) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion in December 2022. The award, which was announced in January, recognizes college economics departments and other organizations which have demonstrated “outstanding achievement in diversity and inclusion practices.”
Mark Kanazawa—Wadsworth A. Williams professor of economics, former department chair and the faculty member who wrote and submitted the award application to the AEA—explained that the department has recently undergone a renewed push to improve its diversity and inclusion practices.
“We’ve been aware of things [around diversity and inclusion] that we should be doing more of for a while now… but I think it’s really fair to say that the trigger was the George Floyd murder in the spring of…
