Professor Daniels joined the Washington College faculty in the fall of 1996. She specializes in economic development with a focus on Africa. She began her work in Africa in 1982 when she joined the Peace Corps in Cameroon. After four years in Cameroon as an advisor to coffee, cocoa, and palm oil marketing cooperatives, Professor Daniels returned to the U.S. for a Masters degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University. While studying for her graduate degrees, she continued to work in Africa on horticultural marketing in the Gambia, market information systems in Chad, and small enterprises in Botswana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. Following the completion of her Ph.D., she directed a national survey of small enterprises in Kenya in 1994. Overall, she spent a total of eight years living and working in Africa prior to her job at Washington College.

During her time at Washington College, Professor Daniels has continued to do research on the small enterprise sector in developing countries. In 1999 she designed a survey to measure profits and net worth of small enterprises as a consultant for a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development. In 2003, she made three trips to Bangladesh where she was the team leader of a national survey of the small-enterprise sector. She has also published several articles on the small-enterprise sector in the Journal of International Development, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Small Enterprise Development, and Les BDS, L’Actualité des Services aux Enterprises. Her research also appears in two book chapters in African Development Perspectives Yearbook, and African Entrepreneurship: Themes and Realities.

In addition to her work on the small enterprise sector, Professor Daniels and a co-author conducted research related to the impact of world markets on poor farmers in Benin. This research was used by Brazil and 14 other countries as part of a testimony at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. It was also published in Agricultural Economics.

More recently, Professor Daniels returned to the College in 2012 after a two-year sabbatical in Uganda where she conducted research on poverty trends. Her research was selected for presentation at the fourth Wye Global Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011 and is now under consideration for publication.

B.S. – Presidency College, 2003

M.S. – Indian Statistical Institute, 2005

M.A. – The Ohio State University, 2006

Ph.D. – The Ohio State University, 2011

Diplom Okonom, Universitat Augsburg, 1998

Ph.D. – University of Rochester, 2003

B.A. – University of Delaware, 1974

M.A. – Cornell University, 1978

Ph.D. – Cornell University, 1987

B.A. – Washington College

MBA – The University of Baltimore

B.S. – University of Maryland, College Park, 2000

M.A. – American University, 2005

M.A. – American University, 2008

M.B.A. – Loyola University Maryland, 1985

Ph.D. – George Mason University, 2004

B.S. – State University of New York at Binghamton, 1995

M.S. – University of Illinois, 1997

Ph.D. – University of Illinois, 2002

B.A. – Doane College, 1993

M.A. – University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

Ph.D. – University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005