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The Center congratulates Nikolas Bowie, Faculty Associate, on the 2021 Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, for teaching ability, attentiveness to student concerns, and contributions to student life at Harvard Law School.
NEXT LAW AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY SEMINAR
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Empire and Histories of Criminal Law
NEXT JOINT CENTER ONLINE SEMINAR
Wednesday 16 June 2021
Claire Zalc (IHMC/CNRS/EHESS)
Discretionary Power in the Hands of an Authoritarian State: Denaturalizations under the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944
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
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
Emma Rothschild
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How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960
Paige Glotzer
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