Susan Randolph

Associate Professor Emerita, Economics

Susan Randolph is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut (UConn) where she also served as a faculty affiliate of the Human Rights Institute (HRI), El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies, the India Studies Program, and the Asian and Asian American Studies Institutes at UConn. Dr. Randolph is the co-founder of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), the co-director of the Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative (ESREI), served as the co-chair of UConn Human Rights Institutes’s Economic and Social Rights Research Program from 2014 to 2019 and currently serves on the Gladstein Committee of the HRI. Dr. Randolph has served as a short-term consultant to the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights, The World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to coming to UConn, she worked for four years as head of the Program Development division with Turkiye Kalkinma Vakfi, a grassroots development organization that enables poor, landless households to establish viable, self-sustaining economic enterprises. Dr. Randolph’s research has focused on a broad range of issues in development economics, including poverty, inequality, food security, and economic and social rights, at both the country and regional levels and has been published in numerous refereed multidisciplinary as well as economic journals. One stream of her work has emphasized measurement while other streams have emphasized development policy. Her work on marginal malnutrition and food security has focused on Mexico, Senegal, and India, while her other work on development policy has been focused cross-nationally as well as on Malaysia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Mexico, Egypt, Nepal, and Indonesia. Dr. Randolph’s most recent book Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights co-authored with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Terra Lawson-Remer (Oxford University Press) is the winner of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Society Association’s 2016 best book award and the winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award for World Order. Dr. Randolph received her BA in Political Science from the University of Oregon and her MA and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.