Simone Wegge

Professor Wegge teaches a range of courses in the PEP Department, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, statistics, econometrics, industrial organization, and economic history. She also teaches regularly in the Ph.D. program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is member of the doctoral faculty. Professor Wegge is an active member of the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Association, and the Social Science History Association. Since 2005 she has represented the PEP Department at the College Council and the Faculty Senate bodies of CSI. For the spring semester of 2009, she is serving as Deputy Chair of the PEP Department.

Professor Wegge’s research focuses primarily on improving our understanding of historical migration processes. A second and new area of research consists of the comparative analysis of child labor incidence across industrializing countries in nineteenth-century Europe. Both topics concern nineteenth-century Europe, in particular Germany and draw on various literatures in economics, economic history, history, and other social sciences. Her research on migration seeks to identify the factors that influenced migrants and explain who emigrated, why they may have left, and what sorts of communities they left from.