Anamary Maqueira Linares

• ECON 2362 - Economics of Gender
• ECON 2540 - Political Economy I: Production and Distribution
• ECON 3392 - Introduction to Development Economics
• ECON 4490 / 7300 - Heterodox Feminist Economics

I am a feminist political economist working within the social reprodution umbrella in Global South contexts, particularly the Latin American region and Cuba. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2024. I also received a MSc from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Quito, Ecuador, in Development Economics, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Havana (2009) where I worked as a young instructor for almost 5 years before spending 2.5 years in Quito, Ecuador. 

• PhD (Economics), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2024
• MSc (Development Economics), Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador, 2015
• BSc (Economics), University of Havana, Cuba, 2009

Research interests

• Heterdodox feminist economics, feminist political economy
• Social reproduction and the state
• Distribution, labour and development
   

Research summary

My research areas lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, labour, development and distribution in Global South countries, especially Cuba. I am particularly interested in social reproduction approaches at different levels of analysis, from theoretical to methodological to empirical. My current research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the circumstances and processes of state involvement in social reproduction processes and their unequal implications for the distribution of the costs of social reproduction among the state, the market, the families and communities in Global South contexts.

Research affiliations/groups

• International Association for Feminist Economics
• Union of Radical Political Economists
• Cuban Emerging Scholars Network

• Maqueira Linares, A., & Moos, K. A. (2024). The distribution of the cost of Cuban social reproduction in 2016: the relative contributions of domestic and diasporic households, the private sector and the state. New Political Economy, 29(5), 819–833. 
• Maqueira, A. and Torres, A. (2021) ‘Cuba in the time of COVID-19: Untangling gendered consequences’, Agenda, 35(4), pp. 117–128. doi: 10.1080/10130950.2021.2012061.
• “Feminismo y Economia Política Marxista en la Revolución Cubana” [Feminism and Marxist Political Economy in the Cuban Revolution], in Dossier “Debates Feministas y de Género en Cuba” [Feminist and on gender debates in Cuba], Cuban Studies Journal, Number 49, pp. 32-51, (2020).

• 2020 - Chair’s Summer Research fellowship for the project “Dynamics of Social Reproduction in Cuba: Distributional and Gender Consequences of the Post-1990s Economic and Social Reform Period” co-authored with Professor Katherine Moos ($4000).
• 2019-2020 - Barnard Family Fund, PERI fellowship award ($2000).
• 2018 - Pre-dissertation summer grant award from the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Project: "Untangling post90s Cuban economic model. Reforms periods from a social reproduction lens" ($750).
• 2020, 2018, and 2017 - Teaching fellowship to participate in the American Economic Association Summer School at Michigan State University.
• 2017 - Cuban Academy of Sciences Award for the best book published in Economics in 2016. Participation as a co-author in paper: "El sector no estatal desde la perspectiva institucional (Non-state owned sector from an institutional approach)," in Bergara, Mario and Hidalgo, Vilma, coordinators, "Transformaciones económicas en Cuba: una perspectiva institucional (Economic transformations in Cuba: an institutional perspective)." 
• 2015 - Winner of the XII Edition of the scholarships competition to finance master´s degree dissertation, FLACSO, Ecuador. Project “Formas de organización de la producción en la reforma económica en Cuba. El papel de los sistemas de incentivos generados y su rol en el sistema social cubano” (Forms of organization of production in Cuban reform. The role of generated incentives in the Cuban social system) ($2000).
• 2013-2015 - Scholarship for master's degree Studies in Development Economics, FLACSO, Ecuador.  

• “Why should we frame the Cuban crisis as a social reproduction crisis? Some implications,” in dossier Cuba’s Economic and Societal Crisis, Center for Latin America and Latino Studies, American University, Washington DC, 2025. 
• “Crisis of social reproduction and the urgency of renegotiating the reproductive bargain in Cuba. Some policy implications,” in panel “The exploding crisis of care and climate under capitalism,” at the Inaugural Conference of the Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 6-8, 2025.
• Webinar “A compounding crisis: Domestic shortcomings, U.S. policies & the impact on everyday Cubans,” sponsored by the Center for Democracy in the Americas and the Washington Office on Latin American (WOLA), 2022.
• “Cuba: New Economic Measures (IV).” Series of interviews with economists about the reform package announced on July 21 by the Cuban government, OnCuba News, 2022.
• "Economic Debate in Cuba: first and second planes (I) and (II) in OnCuba News, 2020.