The Economic Historian

About

The Economic Historian is an online magazine that aims to create a multidisciplinary space for scholars to engage with each other. While contributors are not limited to these topics, The Economic Historian is primarily focused on the history of capitalism, political economy, monetary history, and the history of economic thought.

Editor

Johnny Fulfer is currently a PhD student in History at Indiana University, Bloomington and Assistant Editor of the Indiana Magazine of History. He received his B.S. in Economics and History from Eastern Oregon University and his M.A. in History from the University of South Florida. He has published work in History, the Journal of Global History, Essays in History, the Journal of Applied Business and Economics, and The Developing Economist. You can contact him at johnnydfulfer@gmail.com or @Johnny_D_Fulfer

Contributors

Kristen Alff is at work on her first book, Levantine Joint-Stock Companies in the History of Capitalism around the Mediterranean: 1850-1925. Alff’s work on Levantine companies has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Enterprise and Society.

Gavin Benke is a Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University and author of Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism.  His current book project explores corporate visions of the future in the second half of the twentieth century. Twitter: @GavinBenke
 

Stephen Campbell is a Lecturer at Cal Poly Pomona, and author of The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office. Stephen also maintains a website.  Twitter: @Historian_Steve.

Catherine Cueto received her BA and MA in History from the University of South Florida. She often researches and engages with Florida and Ybor City histories, specifically histories that engage with immigrant communities and identities, diaspora, gender and sexuality, race, labor, and social justice in the United States since the Civil War.

Tom Cutterham is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and author of Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic. He is currently working on two projects: a biography of Angelica Schuyler Church, and a volume of essays about capitalism and the American Revolution. @tomcutterham
 
Barry Eichengreen is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and author, most recently, of The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era and How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future with Livia Chitu and Arnaud Mehl. Barry has written five additional books that you can find on his university bio.
 
Anthony Eisenbarth received a B.S. in Economics from Eastern Oregon University and his M.A in Economics from the University of Missouri Kansas City. 
 

Daniel Gifford is a public historian who focuses on American popular and visual culture.  He received his PhD from George Mason University in 2011. He currently teaches at several universities near his home in Louisville, Kentucky.

 
Eric Hilt is Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. His research focuses on the history of American business organizations and their governance, and more generally on the role of legal institutions in shaping economic and financial development.

Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant, an associate professor of Black Studies and of History at Amherst College, is the author of the essay “In Search of the Costs of Segregation,” published in Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom, from which this article has been adapted, as well as the book Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods.

Destin Jenkins is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He specializes in racial capitalism’s history and consequences for democracy and inequality in the United States. His first book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the Modern American City.

Jessica Lepler is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis. It was a co-winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Stefan Link is an Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College and author of Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton UP), which explores how the 20th-century automobile industry took shape as activist states confronted America, competed over industrial development, and clashed over the terms of globalization.

Noam Maggor is a Senior Lecturer in American History at Queen Mary University of London and author of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age, which is a finance-driven and urban-centered account of the transformation of American capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century. His new project interrogates the integration of what became the American West into the economic orbit of the United States.

George Robb is a professor of history at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He has a PhD from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright scholar in England. His most recent book is Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression.

Caitlin Rosenthal is an Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley and author of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. The book explores the development of business practices on slave plantations and uses this history to understand the relationship between violence and innovation.

Steven K. Vogel is Chair of the Political Economy program, the ll Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.  This article is based on his book, Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work, from Oxford University Press. @StevenKVogel

Donni Wang received her B.A. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University. She is the author of Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism. 

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