Susan Skeath (van Mulbregt) is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. She joined the faculty in 1989 and is serving as Chair of the Economics Department from 2000-2003. At Wellesley, Professor Skeath teaches courses in microeconomics, game theory, international trade, and industrial organization.
Professor Skeath's research focuses on the trade policy implications of the existence of imperfectly competitive international markets and on the role of strategic behavior in such markets. She has also published a textbook for an introductory course on game theory, Games of Strategy (1999), co-authored with Avinash Dixit at Princeton University.
Professor Skeath has held positions as a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1992-93 and at the Department of Economics, Boston University, in the fall of 1999. She was also a Commerce Divisional Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in the spring of 2000.
Professor Skeath received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Haverford College (1985) where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1984. She also has an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1989) in Economics from Princeton University.