announcements
Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Harvard Center in 2011-2014, Center Research Associate, and Associate Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre, was awarded a 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prize for "researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising." We congratulate her warmly.
The Center congratulates Jeremy Zallen, Graduate Research Associate 2009-2014, who has received the 2020 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association for his book American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865.
September 23, 2020
Surabhi Ranganathan (Cambridge)
Unmaking the Ocean
October 14, 2020
Esther Duflo (MIT / Paris School of Economics)
Every child counts: what children know, what
they don’t know and what can be done about it
November 18, 2020
Sunil Amrith (Yale)
The Air as an Archive
We are very pleased to announce a new project by David Todd on French Expatriates in Ottoman Egypt which has been published on the Visualizing Historical Networks website.
David Yang has received a new grant for research on Civil Liberties in the Time of Health and Economic Crises.
The Center warmly congratulates Diana Kim, EHP Fellow at the Harvard Center 2013-2016, on receiving a 2020 Robert B. Silvers Grant for Work in Progress for her research into colonial legacies and Japan's wartime empire in Southeast Asia.
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.
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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
How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
Paige Glotzer
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