Years in the Department:
1934-1972
Research Interest:
Economic History, Financial History, Money & Banking, Public Finance
Biosketch:
Janet Louise Weston came to the University of Illinois as an undergraduate student in 1923, where she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1930, she was awarded a Ph.d. in Statistics from Stanford University.
In 1934, Professor Weston would hold the distinction of being the first woman appointed to the faculty of the Department of Economics at Illinois; and the second, to the College of Commerce and Business Administration. During her tenure, she would gain prominence in the fields of Public Finance and Statistics.
She would teach for 38 years until her retirement as Associate Professor in 1972. Like her father, Professor Weston published little. She was a contributor to the American Economic Review. Perhaps her most notable achievements were that of a woman singularly pioneering into a principally male-dominated field.
Janet Weston was the daughter of Nathan A. Weston, one of the first professors to teach Economics at Illinois, in whose memory she left a fountain which stands at David Kinley Hall.
PHD:
Stanford University, 1930
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Weston, Janet. Medicine, the Penal System, and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s: Diagnosing Deviance. , 2018. Print.
- Weston, Janet. The Effectiveness of the Aedes Aegypti Mosquito Programme in the Thompson Pen Area of St. Catherine. , 2001. Print.
- Weston, Janet. Curing Sexual Deviance: Medical Approaches to Sexual Offenders in England, 1919-1959. , 2016. Internet resource.
- Allin, Bushrod W, Donald Jackson, and Janet L. Weston. Farm Real Estate Taxes, 1913-1930: East North Central and West North Central States (a Preliminary Report). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1932. Print.
- Weston, Janet L. Relations between Variations in Income Tax Rates and in Reported Individual Incomes. , 1930. Print.
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