Kaye Husbands Fealing

Husbands Fealing immigrated to the US from Barbados at the age of eight, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Her father was a lecturer of economics at Montclair State College.^[5] She earned a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.^[3]

Husbands Fealing taught at Williams College from 1989 through 2009,^[5] where she was William Brough professor of economics.^[1] During those years, she held visiting appointments at Smith College, Colgate University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the National Science Foundation. She was a professor in the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota until 2014, when she became chair of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.^[2] In 2020, she was appointed Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech.^[6] Husbands Fealing is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She was awarded the 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the 2017 Trailblazer Award from the National Medical Association Council on Concerns of Women Physicians.

At the National Science Foundation, she developed and was the first program director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program and co-chaired the Science of Science Policy Interagency Task Group. She was also a program director for the NSF economics program.