Amy Skonieczny is currently completing a dissertation on social processes and international economic relations at the University of Minnesota. At the U, Amy was a MacArthur scholar and a part of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change that brought a distinguished group of graduate students from multiple disciplinary (and geographical) backgrounds together to discuss international issues. She holds an MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA from Humboldt State University. Her broader research interests focus on social aspects of economic politics particularly in terms of US domestic politics of trade (China, Mexico and Turkey specifically), culture and identity in economic relations and, more broadly, social relations, language and international relations theory.
In 2001, Amy published an article titled "Constructing NAFTA: Myth, Representations and the Discursive Construction of US Foreign Policy" in International Studies Quarterly and her manuscript “Interrupting Inevitability: Teleology, Globalization and Resistance” is currently under review at Review of International Political Economy .
Her fields of interest include: IR Theory, U.S. Foreign Policy Analysis, Global Political Economy, U.S. Trade Politics, Domestic Sources of International Policy, Development Politics, International Economic Institutions, Qualitative Methods.
This year at Macalester, Amy will be teaching the following courses: Development Politics, Global Political Economy, Foundations of International Politics, US Foreign Policy and Advanced IR theory.
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