Miriam Bankovsky (she/her) is Associate Professor and Head of Department for Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University, where she teaches into the Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She has a new book out this year, entitled Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History (Cambridge University Press 2025). Prior to this, Miriam’s main expertise was in political and moral philosophy. She completed a French-Australian PhD at UNSW and Paris Ouest Nanterre, with early books on theories of justice and recognition (Perfecting Justice Continuum 2012 hbk, Bloomsbury 2013 pbk; Recognition theory Manchester UP 2012; Penser la reconnaissance CNRS Editions Alpha 2012). However, thanks to an ARC-funded DECRA fellowship (2013-2019), Miriam was able to extend her research into economics. She now works comfortably across social and political history, history of moral and political thought, history of economic thought, and economic history. Her current projects, undertaken with Professor Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon) and Professor Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconson, Oshkosh) are two-fold. The first is a critical history of how economists have analyzed birth control, contraception, and abortion. The second is a co-edited book Cambridge Companion to Women's Economic Thought (on contract and due to Cambridge UP in March 2026) which includes chapters on economic thought by and about women, across both global North and global South, inclusive of racialized and queer women, with a focus on studies of the social organization of economic life. Miriam was awarded the Australasian Association of Philosophy’s Annette Baier Prize in 2017 for her work on economic envy.