next online seminars
BARRIERS AND BORDERS
20 January 2022
Noora Lori (Boston University) and
Robtel Neajai Pailey (London School of Economics)
Creating Barriers: Migration, Citizenship, and the Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion
LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY
28 January 2022
Jatin Dua (University of Michigan) and
Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith (Northwestern)
Maritime Borderlands, Conflict, and the Law
JOINT CENTER
16 February 2022
Fei-Hsien Wang (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Bicycle Thieves, Peanut Tenants, and a Disputed Temple: Reconfiguring Value and Economic Life in Post-World War II China (1945-1949)
announcements
The Center warmly congratulates Center Research Associate and 2018 Economics, History, and Politics Prize Fellow Kalyani Ramnath whose “Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Colonization, and International Law in Post-World War II South Asia” was awarded the Surrency Prize, for the best article published in Law and History Review in 2020, and Jane Burbank Prize, for the best article in global legal history published in a scholarly journal in 2020, at the American Society for Legal History’s 2021 annual meeting.
The Joint Center for History and Economics and the Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics are delighted to announce the Prize Fellows for the academic years 2021/2022 to 2023/2024. They are: Elsa Genard (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Jacob Moscona (MIT).
The Joint Center for History and Economics and the Program of Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and Politics are delighted to announce the inaugural CHEP-EHP Fellows at the Centre for History and Economics – Paris and Harvard. They are: Aditya Balasubramanian (ANU), Jingyi Huang (UCLA) and Lola Zappi (Sciences Po).
David K. Richards (1939-2015) was a friend and adviser to the Joint Center for History and Economics, at Cambridge and at Harvard, over many years. He was a participant in Center events, a wonderful observer of economic history, and, with Carol Richards, an immensely generous supporter of the Center's work. One of the many interviews with him, in Barron's, began, "Of all the people we interview, David Richards strikes the deepest chord with readers. His interviews seem to be the ones that get tacked to walls or saved in a desk drawer, treasures of insight and wisdom." We miss him greatly.
WELCOME
The Joint Center for History and Economics is based at Harvard University and at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge. It was established at Harvard in 2007 to promote research and education on subjects of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic thought, economic history, and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Center is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.
The Center is supported by a generous gift from the David K. and Carol Richards Fund. In conjunction with its counterpart Centre at the University of Cambridge, the Harvard Center undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of undergraduate and graduate students. It provides the base for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas, on Energy History, and on Visualizing Historical Networks, as well as for the History Project and the Prize Fellowship Program in Economics, History and Politics.
Recent Center Books
Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain
Padraic X. Scanlan
Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law
Catherine L. Evans
Real Estate and Global Urban History
Alexia Yates
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Emma Rothschild
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